Cross-Dresser Charged with Possession of Stun Gun During Escort Sting
Waukesha Police Department found electronic weapon and sex toys in man’s purse, according to criminal complaint.
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A cross-dressing man lost his blonde wig while running from police Friday during an escort sting and landed himself in jail when police found sex toys and 3,000-volt stun gun in the man’s purse, according to a criminal complaint filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court.
Verness A. Hunt, 25, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was charged Monday with felony possession of an electric weapon and misdemeanor arresting an officer. He faces six years and nine months in prison and $20,000 in fines. Hunt remains jailed in lieu of $525 bail. He will return to court at 10 a.m. Nov. 21.
According to the criminal complaint:
Detectives working with the Waukesha Police Department arranged to meet with a self-described transgender escort who was offering “to keep company for a fee of $250 an hour” on a website. Police believed that the escort ad was in violation of city ordinances and spoke with the escort, who agreed to meet at a Waukesha hotel.
The man, who was unaware he was speaking with police, told a detective that he was to open the door while naked and leave $250 on a desk in the room. When the man, who was dressed as a woman, arrived at the hotel room, police identified themselves to him and he fled down the hallway. Police chased him and had to physically take the man into custody.
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Heather A Scott
9:05 pm on Monday, October 24, 2011
Since when are "sex toys" a crime. There is no mention of sex, or sex for money. Why would this person face more than 6 years in prison when a man in DC shot and almost killed a trans woman, and got 5 years. Also in DC an off duty cop fired on three trans women at close range and will likely see much less.
This is outragous entrapment and you are only reporting on it because the person was transgender. This perpetuates the stigma that makes it so difficult to be transgender, regardless of your profession.
Sarah Millard
9:25 pm on Monday, October 24, 2011
Heather, this is being charged as a felony because of the stun gun being found. We would report on any escort being charged with a felony, regardless of being transgender. However, the criminal complaint states that this person was advertising the services as a transgender.
Sarah Millard
9:27 pm on Monday, October 24, 2011
Additionally, escort services in the city of Waukesha are illegal without a permit, which is why the officers could pursue this case.
michaelm
10:35 am on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Maybe this will help...
Wisconsin Sta. Ann. Chapter 939. Crimes - General Provisions. Chapter 939.22 Words and phrases defined. (10) Dangerous weapon" means any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded ***; any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing great harm ***; any electric weapon, as defined in s. 941.295(4); or any other device or instrumentality which, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm.
Chapter 941.295 Possession of electric weapon. Subsection (1) On or after July 1, 1982, whoever sells, transports, manufactures, possesses or goes armed with any electric weapon is guilty of a Class E felony. Subsection (4) In this section, "electric weapon" means any device which is designed, redesigned, used or intended to be used, offensively or defensively, to immobilize or incapacitate persons by the use electric current.
SUMMARY: Self defense law, in Wisconsin, has banned the Possession and sales of Stunning Devices
Schelli Starbuck
4:38 pm on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The people in this "newspaper" need to get a clue about the proper pronouns when describing or addressing transgender people. In this case, since the person being described is dressed as a woman, and identifies as transgender, the proper pronouns are she and her, and she should be described as a male to female transgender rather than a man or male. Time to get out of thr 16th century.
Sarah Millard
5:19 pm on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
This person has been legally charged as a man.
Vivienne Andersen
6:20 pm on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Yes, Sarah, this woman has been charged as a man. And that is really funny and salacious and that is why you wrote the article the way you chose to. That does not however preclude you from accurately reporting the events that took place while simotaniously protecting the dignity of a fellow human being.
At the very least a competent professional would have taken 2 minutes to google publication style standards for LGBTQ people (if she wasn't already familiar with them) before she sent this off to her editor. You obviously did not. Either heartlessly, or out of sloth. I am certainly ashamed of you, even though you apparently don have the sence to be ashamed of yourself.
Jon Heil
11:30 am on Saturday, January 14, 2012
Police must be bored and setting up whore ads and all, go out and patrol the city and clean it up and wonder how much action goes on crack court in the wee hours.