To her family, she's Ashley, a year-old Florida woman still trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life while juggling two jobs and taking frequent trips to visit out-of-town friends. They have no idea what secrets she keeps.
To Clarksville Police detectives, Ashley Jiminez is a prostitute — one of many using the Internet to find clients, and police claim that despite her flowery, vague language, she's selling sex. Her arrest is one of many in recent months as police have cracked down on prostitution in Clarksville, taking aim at a growing trend of online solicitation.
Following an April arrest on promotion of prostitution charges, Jimenez talked to The Leaf-Chronicle about her life on a circuit she would travel in secret, one that included stops at a Clarksville hotel for a few days before she'd move on to other towns. She said she placed on Back.
A disclaimer on a warning for that Adult section says anyone viewing it must be 18 years old because it contains sexual content. During that time, the men usually wanted sex. It was my choice. According to an arrest warrant, she offered 15 minutes of her time for a donation of 80 roses. She thought the vague language would protect her from arrest.
And for a while, she was right. Jimenez had visited Clarksville several times as she went from one interstate hotel to another in several cities, traveling alone. But on March 19, her luck ran out. Jimenez, who said she gave her address as "homeless" because she didn't want her family to find out, faces prostitution, simple drug possession and unlawful drug paraphernalia charges. According to her arrest warrant, a search of her hotel room on Westfield Drive turned up a baggie of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and 25 condoms.
That's when, she says, her life changed. Jimenez said she chose Clarksville because she has no other connection to the city. She lives in Florida and didn't want to risk advertising as an escort there. While her Back. She became involved in the escort industry after she lost her job and a friend told her about it. For almost a year, she posted similar many times.
When she was arrested March 19, she was stunned. And scared. Scared enough to give up what she'd thought was easy money. Clarksville Police began targeting prostitution earlier this year because of other crimes associated with it, especially around the Exit 4 hotels, spokeswoman Officer Natalie Hall said.
He, of course, was making all the profit. In that case, Shealy, of Knoxville, faces human trafficking, promoting prostitution, aggravated rape and drug charges. His case is more extreme than most. But Hall said prostitution cases often involve other crimes, from robbery to drugs to assault.
The common denominator of these crime activities at Exit 4 involved prostitution," she said.
In the first four months ofpolice have already made more prostitution arrests than they did in all of Five people have been charged with prostitution, 11 with promoting prostitution and 23 with patronizing prostitutes. Clarksville Police not only responded to on Back.
Many of the escorts advertise "military specials," and nine of the 23 johns CPD arrested were in the military, Hall said. Hall said police will continue the crackdown by periodically placing and monitoring websites. She said she was always careful to avoid using the word "sex" in hertexts and phone calls.
Once in a while, talking is all she did. She had just returned to Clarksville in March when she was arrested on her first day at the hotel.
An agent with CPD posed as a john on the phone. He had seen her ad and arranged to meet her.
According to her arrest warrant, Jimenez "made a verbal agreement for 15 minutes for a donation of 80 roses," and the officer "knows that the defendant was agreeing to perform sexual act s for monetary gain. But she did not deny that sex was one way to use the time.
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