August 18, 2009- Albuquerque, NM- I received this from Anthony Landavazo who followed the McMullin Case in Albuquerque, courtesy of the Albuquerque Journal. This is a story that I have blogged about for years now.. It's good to see that this man had to pay the price for his crimes. Please don't forget that this guy operated his illegal company disguised as an Albuquerque Security company. Many complaints were made about this illegally operating firm.
An Albuquerque man on Monday morning was sentenced to 13-and-a-half years in prison for his part in a prostitution ring, the maximum sentence. Bobby McMullin was convicted by an Albuquerque jury back in May of 15 charges associated with his operation of the Private Ice prostitution ring. Officials say that the ring operated Websites that masqueraded as online escort services in order to pair prostitutes with customers. McMullin’s attorney argued during the trial that McMullin had contracts with his escorts—or “contract employees,” as his attorney termed them—in which they pledged to do nothing illegal. McMullin still faces a December trial on child pornography charges because officials say the some of the images on the Website were those of underage girls. Two weeks ago, one of McMullin’s partners was sentenced to five years on probation after pleading guilty to the charges against him. Gary Hoppe was in charge of one of the three Private Ice Websites.
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