Ten Women Busted In Undercover Sting On Escort Services

FERN PARK, Fla. -- Nearly one dozen women were busted in an undercover sting on local escort services. Investigators say this year's hurricanes brought many of the women to the Central Florida area.

Seminole County undercover agents busted ten female escorts on prostitution charges late Thursday night. They said a few of the women had come to Central Florida to work after hurricanes in Texas and South Florida hurt their business there.

Strange News Photos (LEFT) STRANGE PHOTOSView 99 PHOTOS of Strange News Undercover officers set up shop as customers at a Fern Park motel. One of the accused prostitutes is just 16 years old and what she and two other women were trying to sell for $1,500 in room 305 at the Comfort Inn Northeast is so shocking it can't be reported.

The manager of the Comfort Inn on Highway 17-92 in Fern Park said he was surprised to find out that undercover agents were there Thursday night doing a prostitution sting. But now that he knows, he's hoping it'll prevent him from ever having the problem at his motel again.

Investigators said other local businesses were complaining about problems with prostitution, worried that prostitution and drugs could lead to serious problems for them and their customers.

Nine women face prostitution and other charges. Some were wanted for arrest on outstanding warrants. Investigators said they also confiscated cocaine. Four of them are from Orlando. One of them says she lives in Pinecastle with her husband. One is a local bartender. The youngest one who was arrested is only 16 years old.

Most of the women arrested are in their 20s. The oldest is 34. Investigators said the escort services advertised in a local publication and played a game of phone-tag to avoid being found.