Police: Woman on hooker scam called her victims ‘losers’:
34-year-old Judiann Madera of North Andover, Mass. has been arrested on several charges including prostitution and robbery. What Madera did was she placed an ad on craigslist offering sex for money. When the Johns would show up she and her boyfriend, Bienvenido “Benny” Almenas, 24, of Lawrence, Mass., would rob the Johns for money. Madera did not actually have sex with the victims. She referred to her victims as losers and said they deserve to have their money taken.
I know that it’s wrong, but if you’re stupid enough to pay somebody, then you’re stupid enough to get your money taken,” police quoted her as saying.
Hard to argue there. Anyway she figured that none of the victims would report the crime out of shame. She figured wrong.
Police said they learned about the scam when a victim e-mailed police on Sept. 28 and tipped them off to the situation. He told them he was robbed of more than $200, and he worried the same thing would happen to other people. Police conducted an undercover operation where they called the phone number in the craigslist.com advertisement and set up an appointment.
Madera and Co. tried to rob an undercover officer and it was all downhill from there.
It seems like that getting a craigslist hooker is a lot like Russian roulette. You never know which one is either going to be a cop or worse.
