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StumbleReport: Henderson officer paid prostitute on several occasions
Published Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 | 6:16 p.m.
Updated Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 | 11:30 a.m.
Michael Stevens
Details emerged Friday in the arrest of a Henderson Police officer accused of soliciting a prostitute.
In an arrest report released this morning, Metro Police say Michael Stevens, 34, was arrested about 3 a.m. Sunday after he offered money to a prostitute and an undercover police officer so the two women would have sex with him. Stevens had paid the prostitute for sex on several occasions, she told police.
According to the report, Metro Police arrested the woman that night while conducting an undercover vice investigation at the Aria resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
After police arrested several women on the Strip in connection with soliciting prostitution, the women began talking with each other about how they had had sex with police officers for money, the arrest report said.
One prostitute, who led police to Stevens, spoke about one of her frequent clients – a Henderson police officer named Mike, the report said.
Police said the prostitute told them "she had had sex with a Henderson police officer at his house several times and she could text message him right now, and he would agree to meet up with her and pay her to have sex with him."
After sending the text message, Stevens agreed to meet the woman for sex, the report said.
The report said Stevens agreed to meet the woman and her "friend" – a female, undercover Metro Police officer – at a PT’s Pub on East Tropicana. When the two women drove up to Stevens’ white Escalade, police said he was sitting in the driver’s seat with the window down.
At that time, Stevens allegedly had already agreed to sex for $100 with the two women, who he believed to be prostitutes, police said.
After a conversation about the services the two women would provide to Stevens, the report said the undercover police officer told Stevens she knew of a place up the road where they could go. A police car was waiting for Stevens and he was arrested.
After his arrest, police said Stevens admitted that what he had done was wrong. He told police he initially met the prostitute on Criagslist.com, the report said.
Stevens was booked into the Clark County Detention Center, Metro Police said.
Henderson Police spokesman Keith Paul said Stevens had been with the department for five years.
Stevens was placed on administrative leave earlier this week pending an internal investigation.
Sun reporter Jackie Valley contributed to this report.
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Here is another one of Las Vegas/Henderson's Finest who will do his best to delay, deny and drag it out closer to the day he dies. And why shouldn't he? He gets paid for every day the police union can drag it out.
Selling? Buying?
Innocent UNTIL proven guilty. Isn't that the way any one of you would want it. Isn't that the way our wonderful country is set up. I remember a time when we weren't so ready to crucify people. What has happened to our civility. If what is charged is proven to be true then the legal system will punish accordingly. He will FOREVER lose the ability to work in law enforcement.
Hey at least he isnt out killing innocent people and working with the coroner to get off scott free.
Just how many Las Vegas Valley police officers are on paid administrative leave at any one time? 10..100..over a thousand? Just how many?
Again: Selling? Buying? Further: Selling who?...himself or somebody he is controlling?
Guilty! he was caught in the act!
To Robert2
He may lose the ability to work in law enforcement, but I'll be he becomes either a process server or goes to work for one of the nightclubs in a casino where prostitution is not only tolerated, it's encouraged. He has all the contacts.
Wonder how many prostitutes he has ever stopped and demanded sex in exchange for letting her go free?
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Just another cop acting like he is human.
Humans do thease kind of things no matter what profession their in.
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Well it's bad he got cought, even worse that he's a police officer. However, he's still a human being. Although, being in law enforcement he should have been smarter. Punnishment can't really be that bad for the accused act. He works a hard job, most-likely didn't have a girlfriend, and wanted to have adult fun. Can't be that mad at him. He'll have to live with what happended and life goes on. No guarentees on anything in life no matter what job you have.
anthonyjoevegas
Sorry you don't have to be smart to be in law enforcement ...never has been one of the requirements. Proof is out there very day.
so metro didnt shoot him for carrying concealed? lots of cops off duty carry all the time!
or wait, this officer didnt make a furtive move towards the metro cop?
metro, seriously, you have nothing better to do in this damn god forsaken town than bust hookers?
and why is it even illegal to solicit a hooker? the hooker is the one committing the crime! the buyer just wants some sex!!!!!!! whats the problem with some guy wanting to get laid? busting people for soliciting hookers is such a dumb crime on the books and should be removed.
There's 99 pages of "entertainers" in the phone book....why didn't he call one of them? You never hear of any law enforcement agency messing with them. I guess they pretty much do what they want.
Looks like Michael Stevens made a "furtive movement" with the wrong part of his anatomy.
Look how the world's changing like Obama said it would Pops - police are now arresting police.
Muz Bez a mizprint Lamont.
It says that an officer Stevens was arrested on suspicion of soliciting prostitution.
Suspicionz?
Whatz susicionz?
Suspicion Pops is an act of suspecting something is wrong without proof or little evidence.
Withoutz proofz?!
Seez, I told ya it waz a mizprint - eveyonez knowz the Fuzz neverz doez nothin' wrong Uz Big Dummy!
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Since when is "being human" an adequate excuse for being an utter idiot?
If you unintentionally and/or unknowingly broke some minor law or regulation, I'd possibly agree. If you overstepped some regulations while your intention was at least "honorable", maybe.
But if you're on the force and intentionally work AGAINST the principles you have SWORN to keep up, you're not only a lying scumbag, you are someone no one should EVER trust again. Especially with a gun and a uniform.
Clark County has to be one of the worst counties to live in the U.S. I think were coming close to New Orleans or whatever "parish" that is in.
There should be a legal red light district established.
Being from Ft.Worth Texas and getting ready to retire, we considered retiring in Las Vegas. The last year or so, I started looking into it seriously. I don't know what I was thinking.
This had to be a police decoy acting as a street walker.
I see the cop haters are out in force, honestly, don't any of your parole officers ever tell you that the Police are only human? You should spend your welfare checks on finding jobs instead of buying cheap internet and throwing insults at your betters.
This man has laid his life on the line for all of you. If now and then he gets laid himself, that's his business.
Any man reduced to paying for sex has already suffered enough.
looks sorta like any other mug shot when you take the uniform off!
@"Lord"
Thank you, I'm employed, never lived on welfare or been "on parole" (or worse).
That guy NEVER was my "better"... and you are a moron!
Real winners, those Henderson cops.
like jimmy buffet sings," theres no dumb ass vaccine". isnt life wonderful?
He looks familiar. He's kind of ugly. I might have seen him around my store in Henderson a while back. I say. Throw the book at him! Since he is a cop he should be held at a higher standard.
I hope she was 'HOTTER' than the Party Pit dancers.
There is a "presumption of innocence" in this country. If you don't like this law then start a petition and get a few million signatures on it. Then try to get a congressman or senator to sponsor it and turn it into law. Those of you who are against this individual from getting his due process of law simply because he was a police officer are part of an extreme far left or right element.
"Innocent UNTIL proven guilty"
Yes, except for the IRS....in which case you are guilty if they say so and must prove your innocence!!!
First off, soliciting prostitution is a victimless crime.
However, I'm glad this cop get a change to be screwed over like the rest of us when we get busted for B.S. crimes.
trying to bust people for soliciting prostitution causes nothing but clogs in the CJ system, costs us as taxpayers money. its a waste of time. if you need to worry about hookers so much, how about busting hookers, not the people that wanna get laid. everyone wants to get laid!!!
wait does that this mean that the date i went on a few years ago and paid for dinner and other entertainment mean that i solicited sex since we had sex that night? i mean, i did pay for stuff so i can impress the woman....does that mean shes a hooker too?
pfft. stupid crime...so stupid its not even a crime. go metro! you are working hard to keep us safe from men who want sex from a legally aged person! get a grip metro, you got more things to worry about than some guy wanting women.
FACT: There is no single group in YOUR community which violates more laws, terrorizes, brutalizes and kills more citizens as a matter of routine than those employed by Metro.
Would like to suspect that an effective method in attempting to correct public service agencies, in this case, law enforcement personnel which have developed into cultures of criminal activity is to issue random "integrity" tests upon personnel -- the lack of details along with the "low-level" criminal charges (suspicion?) cited by this article suggest perhaps such tests are being conducted internally, with Officer Stevens failing the test?
However, such "integrity" tests targeting law enforcement personnel, politicians etc. can also be conducted by organizations/citizens outside law enforcement and should be as a matter of random-routine (oxymoron?) to help assure those tasked with enforcing public laws are indeed obeying them as well.
Note; whosarrested.com has yet to confirm Officer Stevens's arrest -- while have you ever wondered why criminal mug-shots of law enforcement personnel are captured only when they're out of uniform?
Back to our illicit vice soliciting paid criminals' and their cultured behaviors which find them routinely engaged in the commerce of illicit narcotics i.e. the purchase and/or selling of street drugs -- clearly contradicting obedience of duty to law as well as to the best interests of the communities employing them as armed citizens for the purposes of law enforcement -- leaving little assurance that those engaged in the commerce of illicit narcotics aren't also engaging in consumption as well.
History shows us tampering and/or destroying evidence e.g. claiming pertinent surveillance video recordings possess "glitches" rendering them unavailable; falsifying documentation, brutalizing handcuffed suspects, maniacally operating motor vehicles hazardous to public safety while not wearing a seatbelt, collaborating/conspiring to commit perjury, shooting suspects multiple times in the back and soliciting engagement into the commerce of illicit vice are just a few of the commonly "cultured" criminal traits routinely practiced by law enforcement agencies.
BTW: The Frontline episode "Law and Disorder" currently airing on public television is a recommended viewing check local listings or the PBS/Frontline website.
"There are times when shooting cameras are more powerful than shooting guns".
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The Coroner's Inquest ruled that soliciting prostitution in this case was "justifiable".
REALLY??? There are how many single and/or married women (minus husbands) that fly into Vegas every week and he was so desperate that he needed to pay for it??? A cop should know this much you would think.....
RE: LORDGLENMORE
These policeman take an oath to uphold the law.
How many citizens has this nitwit taken to jail on the same charges? Or on stings?
Yes they are human, and they are NOT better then us, but they took an oath and are suppose to be trusted above others which is something that lacks in this state lately because of a few knuckle heads like this and their actions.
If this kid loses his job, he should run for office, he has all the qualifications. Don't blow the job vote for officer Mike!
$100 for two broads? What a cheapskate!
Henderson's finest. See he got the police discount.
It is so funny how we in the U.S. look so down upon the world's oldest profession. In Europe where it is perfectly legal, they cannot understand why we are so against it, yet our violence in movies and TV is ten times worse than anything they would show. One trip to Europe and you will be amazed at how regulated and open it is.
With regard to law enforcers soliciting for sex, it is a tough call to make. If it is illegal and you are sworn to uphold the law than how many other laws do you break despite the trust placed in you? I agree with other comments that if not an officer, it is a misdeamenor and small fine.
Well good. If he didn't pay, now that would be a crime.
$100.00 for 2 women? Sign me up. lol kidding
If he didn't work so many hours he might have time to find a relationship. Also alot cheaper than dating. Leave this hard working guy alone.
Sounds more like the undercover cop and prostitute are the one's guilty of soliciting.
suebee, dont forget the drama involved with dating and relationships!! 100 bucks is cheap compared to all the money you spend over a years time like dinner, movies, entertainment, birthdays, holidays, vacations, anniversarys etc...
poor bastard got arrested for looking for women to enjoy life with. what a sad crime!
I'm no lawyer, but it sounds like entrapment. They didn't wait for him to call, they called him.
Geeez "After police arrested several women on the Strip in connection with soliciting prostitution, the women began talking with each other about how they had had sex with police officers for money, the arrest report said."
How convienent that they just happened to have that conversation and someone just happened to hear it.
Sounds like a sting to me.
Aside from all the bull crap I want to know, how does a cop afford $100.00 instantly to drop on hookers and how in hell does he afford an Escalade on cop pay.
What is a cop doing with an Escalade?
I'm glad the prostitute was of age, not like FIREMEN picking up underage girls, offering them pot for sex. What ever happened to that scum bucket?
henderson police officer are one of the top paid police officers in the country
this setup stinks!
Yah, I agree with above.
Somethings fishy.
Henderson cop driving Escalade?
$100 for two hookers for sex?
PT's?!
Ok, last one is normal.
Metro is smart enough to catch another cop for paying for sex, but can't catch one of their perjurying, murdering own.
What a joke of a force.
$100 for two women, wow!!! He must have gotten a special discount not available to the general public.
the DA will drop the charges on some technicality. The police must never be held accountable for their actions. Maybe they will do an inquest of some sort?
You're a hooker!! I just thought I was doing great with you. (Arthur Bach, Arthur) Holy crap, that PT's is spitting distance from my place. If I'd only known.
Retarded. Who cares? Non-crime.
@z_white_knight
You are right. Taking an oath makes all the difference.
It should be cleaned up, taxed and made legal. It no different than hooking up with someone at a bar and ending up in a room,...results are the same. Cops should have better things to do than this,...its a waste of police resources
Ain't it great when their pimp has knowledge of customers' identity. Just a matter of time before you twist in the wind like a windmill.......wheeeeeee.
WHAT A JOKE OF A CHARGE! THIS MAN DID NOTHING WRONG! WE SHOULD BE ASHAMED THAT WE ARE PUTTING AN HONORABLE OFFICER THROUGH A NIGHTMARE. There is a reason they call it the world's oldest profession. It's because there will always be demand for adult services! What this officer did would be legal if he had only taken the time to drive to Pahrump, but why should he have to? Las Vegas needs a red light district, so that good men like this officer--who just happens to be a red-blooded, horny man like most men--will not be made out to be "criminals." What a perversion of the law! The officer, who has risks his life to protect the citizens of Henderson, wanted some adult fun, and the female wanted money. Why is this a big deal when it is legal just miles out of Clark County? As long as the two were ADULTS who practiced safer sex, and neither were coerced or hurt, how was this proposed transaction any different than what happens every day in Pahrump and all across Nevada? Remember the prostitute claims the officer was a frequent client, so she obviously WANTED to do business with this man. If this officer receives anything more than a slap on the wrist by his employer, it is a travesty of justice. My guess is that more than half of the people doling out the discipline in Henderson have visited prostitutes. Don't confuse a good officer who wanted uncomplicated sex with anything more than that...he did NOTHING wrong! I hope he gets a good attorney or union representative and beats this waste of taxpayer money with the defense of entrapment. I believe offering up the second prostitute via text was clear, uncomplicated entrapment...and a gross waste of taxpayer resources. Officer Stevens, I hope you are back protecting the citizens of Henderson very, very soon. And thanks for your honorable service. One day, Nevada will rid itself of its prudish ways and legalize what already goes on every hour of every day here in Clark County. There are obvious politics and powerful people with personal agendas in Clark County that have blocked this common sense approach to prostitution. On behalf of the REASONABLE citizens of Henderson, I apologize for this ridiculous miscarriage of justice, and I know many, many of our fellow citizens fell exactly the same way. THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HONORABLE SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY. May this foolishness pass quickly.
$100 for two hookers? Wow, I guess the recession has really hit hookers hard? If that's the going rate for two hookers at Aria, what's the rate for picking up a ho on Boulder Highway near Sam's Town, $10? Brutal.
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Cop or no cop does not matter. Whats wrong with cops paying for sex?? Whats wrong with paying for sex period??? It should be legalized!! Its legal all over Europe you dont hear people going to jail over this crap over there. Where here are bigger criminals running around and getting away with murders etc and you guys wanna put a guy in jail who pays for sex, geeez.
All the true intelligence in Las Vegas is showing in this comment section. Why am I not surprised? Surprised half of you can read.
Have been born and raised here and have always thought that there is no reason to waste our tax dollars on arresting solicitation. The actual sex act hasn't happened. Issue the citation to the "John" or Girl and move on. Stop crowding the jail with people looking for sex. It doesn't solve anything.
Yes, this guy screwed up and it just so happens his occupation was police officer. The dumb part was him admitting to the girl he was a cop to begin with. He wasn't too smart. Guess that is what love does for you. Oh well. It's over now.
And for VegasIsCrap, have said it before and I will say it again, leave. Don't come back. There is no reason to lock someone up because they were going to pay for sex when there are real criminals on the street. And yes, take the shot and say I must pay for it.. Get it over with now and move on...
What would most men do if they were minding their own business with NO INTENT OF BREAKING THE LAW and were suddenly INDUCED to break the law when they received a text offering a threesome for a mere $100? What this officer allegedly did sounds most of all like a textbook example of ENTRAPTMENT on the part of the police department. If the text had come from a Pahrump brothel, it would be called advertising. I hope the D.A. puts this case where it belongs--in the trash. Put the good officer back to work protecting the citizens of Henderson, and stop entrapping contributing members of society.
I don't believe it just because they infer that there were multiple people at Aria.
I wish this country would grow up and legalize prostitution. Whatever consenting adults do behind closed doors is their business.
There is no Espirt Decorps in law enforcment in this town, why are cops setting up cops?? Glad to see the tax payers money is being spent on UC hookers and real hookers for that matter to bust cops(probably on overtime) how much did this hooker get paid by metro jus to dupe guys or girls into career ending moves. Go out an catch the guys who broke into my car, its bad enuff half of metro is on leave for OISs and dirty invstigations.
People get arrested for this in Clark County almost every day. Why are some people bitching about it now? Where have you been? This same scenario happpens to regular people all the time that are not police officers...but because this boy is cop, we should feel sorry and let him go? This boy knew it was illegal in Clark Co., and common sense would tell him it wouldn't be good if he got caught. He was playing with fire and got burned, thats the chance you take. (i agree that paid sex should be legalized in clark co., taxed and regulated, off the streets)
So much great entertainment in this article:
Henderson cop driving an Escalade! I know retired Detroit officers who retired making $70k a year, 5 years ago, after putting in 25-30 years of service. These clowns start at $65, ...in Henderson, where the only murderers ARE the police.
Second, he's picking up prositutes? Pure comedy 24karat gold. This dude must have absolutely ZERO GAME. Cops get more tail that anyone, women love that power. All you need to do is have an Escalade (check) some Ed Hardy gear (probably another check) and a narcissistic self-centered attitude, and they'll come flocking.
Hilarious.
If he gets fired he can get a security job at the Chicken Ranch..
Another example of metro failing to keep their gun holstered?
If this metro cop ran into Paris Hilton, we might never have known.
Legalize it in Vegas, but still keep Paris Hilton out.
Hey, all this guy did, was pay for services rendered nothing illegal about that..........
prostitution should be decriminalized, there is no victim, move on.
A morals law arrest. Done in the public interest. Wrighthaven filing suits seeking outrageous sums for damages is applauded or at least condoned, while a fair valued transaction between consenting adults is prosecuted. Injustice? Absolutely! If harm done is any consideration then this law should be abolished. If harm occurs such as marital dissolution, spread of disease or extortion occur, enforce existing laws proscribing such and/or remedy said wronging.
Prostitution needs to be legalized.
The policeman was wrong because he broke the law and he is a law officer. Later, if the woman gets arrested, then it could get sticky. I could see worse laws broken down the line. That's why there are laws and law enforcement needs to follow them more so then us. The policeman needs couciling to communicate with people better off the job. As for prostitution, I prefer someone trained in sex therapy who can teach affection and communications and knows safety in medical and enivornment. Since that is not going to happen anytime soon in prudish America, legalize it with lots of regulation to protect the owner, the ho, the trick and society from not being mentally, physically, emotionally, and environmentally abused and tax it to help this economy get back on its feet.
Where is Ensign when someone needs him?
'Where is Ensign when someone needs him?'
Who needs Ensign!
I can only assume Steven's is not married. Steven did what any man would do, it is a misdemeanor, so I don't think he should lose his job, but he should be suspended for 30 days without pay. I think he learned his lesson. What concerned me more than anything, he used his position as a way to get favors, not that is wrong. Most police agencies in California, prohibit officer from receiving gratuities.
I feel as though this may be entrapment, didn't the Ho call the trick, and wasn't the Ho under the supervision of LE acting as their good Samaritan agent.
I am not an advocate of Henderson LE, this just doesn't sit well with me. I think this sting will not stand-up in court.
At least this guy pays for the sex he is getting not like the one from North Las Vegas (?) who stopped women for supposedly traffic violations and demanded sex to let them go. This one is helping the economy by hiring those unemployed hookers.
unclegig that's hilarious!
He'll probably at least lose his job. It's funny because those girls say that they do cops all the time and usually they are full of it. Finally one of them was telling the truth.
I hope this case doesn't hinge upon the hookers testimony because she will never show up in court. That girl left town already.
Also why would he have her come to his house and tell her what he does? What a moron.
It is absolutely a gross waste of taxpayer dollars and reporting. This is somebody's power play.
Do you people really care that a man had to pay for sex? Or is it just because he is a cop? Or because he drives an Escalade?
Just because he wears a badge does not mean he deserves anything more that any other horny guy gets when he gets caught. I think I read above that it is a ticket, a misdemeanor... So what if he tickets other guys for doing the same thing. They, too, got caught, paid their ticket, and went home. I don't see all those guys in the news... I think that even cops get horny, does that surprise anyone here? That he might want to pay instead of go thru the crap a relationship takes is no surprise to me! Cheap at twice the price if you look at it from an economic stand point. Maybe that's how he affords the Escalade, doesn't have to support a wife, pay $100 every now and then to get your rocks off, and have plenty left over for a car payment!
Give the guy a ticket, QUIETLY suspend him for 30 days without pay, let him pay his ticket, and move on!! No need to go to this extreme, unless of course you are trying to show the public what a wonderful DA you are and how you deserve to be re-elected. Can't charge a lying fool like Yant but you can sure as hell ruin this guys life... geez....
Right On!
He's on administrative leave....WITH PAY.