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Cops Bust Johns in Prostitution Sting
LEXINGTON PARK --- Three weeks ago, local police arrested two women who had been selling their wares in broad daylight along Great Mills Road about two blocks from the main gate of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Now it was the turn of the customers who had been paying for sex.
On Friday, Sept. 3, 2004, detectives assigned to a joint criminal investigation task force composed of the Maryland State Police and the St. Mary's Sheriff's Department conducted a special undercover operation on Great Mills Road in Lexington Park. Personnel posing as prostitutes were stationed on Maryland Route 246 near South Essex Drive.
During the operation, several individuals made contact with the undercover personnel and offered money in exchange for sexual favors. The following subjects were identified by Sgt. Edward Willenborg of the St. Mary's Sheriff's Dept. as being arrested and charged with violating Maryland Criminal Code CR 11-306 Prostitution-general:

Jaime Rolando Martinez-Ortiz , 39, of Lexington Park
Russell Wayne Reatherford, 44, of Lexington Park
Brian William Adkins, 23, of Lexington Park
Joseph Robert Dickerson,45, of Leonardtown
Pena Lucio Joan Manue, 27, of Pasedena, Tx
Soledad Jose Daniel Romo,19, of Lexington Park
Dolores Viloarreal, 26, of Pasedena, Tx
John Randolph Boome, 38, of St. Leonard
Jaime Valle, 20
Steveland Morris-Penn Stewart, 19, of Lexington Park