Sacramento Escorts: Roseville PD: Man arrested for pimping after ad answered
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By Bee Staff
A man was arrested on suspicion of pimping and drug possession after a Roseville police officer followed up on a Craigslist ad of someone offering prostitution services in the Roseville area, according to a police spokeswoman.
Efrain Augustine Aguilar, 27, of Sacramento was booked into Placer County jail on Tuesday, jail records. He was being held on $25,000 bail.
The officer answered the ad and arranged to meet the suspect at a hotel, said Dee Dee Gunther, police spokeswoman.
When officers arrived, they also contacted Aguilar in an adjacent room, and suspected him of pimping (being financially supported by the prostitute’s work), she said.
Aguilar also possessed methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, she said.