STRIKE TEAM CONDUCTS PROSTITUTION STING - “OPERATION TROJAN” / SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Direct: (915) 538-2119
Pager: (915) 533-0733 (#5370)
Release Date / Time: MONDAY, MAY 25, 2009 9:00 AM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office – STRIKE TEAM
EVENT: “OPERATION TROJAN” NETS SEVERAL ARRESTS
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: El Paso County, TX
DATE / TIME: MONDAY, May 18, - FRIDAY, 22, 2009
RESULT: ARRESTS MADE
EL PASO COUNTY, TX– During the week of May 18th thru May 22nd, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office STRIKE TEAM conducted a Prostitution Sting Operation labeled “OPERATION TROJAN”. The operation was in direct response to citizen complaints of increased prostitution and narcotic
activity. The operation targeted specific areas such as local truck stops, areas in central & downtown El Paso, Texas. The Operation was spearheaded by the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office STRIKE TEAM. The Team was deployed to investigate, deter and arrest those involved in the criminal activity. The STRIKE TEAM worked various hours during the week time frame leading to several arrests of the reported criminal activity. Listed below are arrests made by STRIKE TEAM Deputies during “OPERATION TROJAN”.
Due to security purposes, the number of Deputies deployed during the operation will be not be disclosed.
ARRESTED FOR PROSTITUTION
| DANIELS, ERIKA (31)
| HERNANDEZ, ILIANA (44) | FERNANDEZ, LAURA (47) |
CANTU, DIANA (47)
| ROSALES, RODOLFO (20) | GUERRA, FRANCISCO (29) |
| CISNEROS, JOSE (27) 
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(NOTE: INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED / SHOWN ABOVE ARE PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW)
END OF NEWS RELEASE
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2001 was the first Sheriff’s Office in the State of Texas to be Internationally Accredited from CALEA and is now the recipient of the First CALEA Tri-Arc award in Texas (4th in the Nation) to have accreditations in: Law Enforcement, Communications, Training Academy.