Subway Sex Sting
by Lewis DerkinsJune 26th, 2008, 10:25 pm
Of all the abysmal service I have personally witnessed, and the horrible stories I have read about Metro, this has to be the worst.
A station manager and custodian were just arrested on prostitution charges. Apparently, they ran their little “business” out of Dupont Metro Station.
According to the article:
Sharon Waters, a Red Line station manager, told an undercover police officer at the Dupont Circle station June 4 that she could arrange meetings with local prostitutes for him, according to court documents.
The officer returned to the station at 11:45 p.m. June 11 and met with Waters, who told him she was organizing a “sex” party in the Washington area for a $100 cover charge, court records show.
Waters said she also could arrange for another, unidentified Metro station manager to meet the officer for sex, but that she couldn’t find her at that time, according to the affidavit.
After this:
The employees used the Metro loudspeaker system to facilitate an illicit sexual arrangement.
They called the custodian, Pam Goins, because “she would be interested”.
Notice, only two of these clowns have been caught. There’s still a station manager involved in this who is at large.
Is it any wonder that DC Metro’s trains and tracks are in disrepair and derailing, their service is unreliable and expensive, their equipment, including escalators and elevators is constantly broken, their customer service is awful, and they have made virtually no progress on expanding the system?
Why would you expect any of those things when your station managers, the people on site to supposedly stay on top of those issues, are more concerned with setting up illicit affairs with undercover police officers? There’s not much time to pay attention to grandma stranded on the escalator when you’re trying to score some quick cash by prostituting your employees.
What kind of riff-raff, burger-flipper candidate is Metro hiring?
I know not every Metro employee is a criminal, and some of them probably work hard, but this is just ridiculous. How long has this been going on? There has to be something wrong with the oversight and management process here if these women could:
[tell] the officer she would have sex with him for $200, and the two agreed to meet in the officer’s hotel room later in the week, after Goins grabbed his crotch and made several references to sexual acts she wanted to perform with him
… in a Metro Station. The best part is, Waters left the Dupont Station and went to Farragut North Station to arrange the rendezvous with Goins.
Who the hell was running Dupont Station while she was gone?
No one thought it was odd that she just left?
If the station can run fine without this burger-flipper, why do we need to pay for her to be there anyway? Based on the stories above, it doesn’t really look like she’s doing much of anything while she’s on the job.
I’m sorry, she is doing something, it’s just illegal and not in any way related to her official duties.
Maybe I just got a little ahead of myself, this might actually be the best part – this Goins woman had a felony conviction nine years before she was hired.
I’m all about reintegrating convicts into society once they pay their dues, but let’s be honest, this process requires some supervision to make sure things are going OK. If you were hiring a bank robber to work the cash register at your restaurant, wouldn’t you keep an eye on him to make sure he wasn’t pocketing some of the cash?
This woman had a previous felony firearms conviction, and when she was arrested for prostitution, she also had $141 worth of stolen merchandise from Victoria’s Secret, including clothes and cosmetics in her possession. She clearly wasn’t walking the straight and narrow after her time behind bars. But Metro put this woman into a position of customer service that actually had some supervisory responsibilities?
This is awful. What in the BLEEP is going on?
To their credit, Metro fired Goins. I have no idea what’s so difficult to determine about Water’s case that she remains on administrative leave. It’s time for Metro to take a hard look at their hiring process and do some housecleaning.
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Wow! That is one hell of story! I can’t believe that Ms. Waters was so bold as to run her prostitution business at her place of work while on administrative leave! WOW!
Derk,
You produce an incredible amount of words for someone who, literally, has no idea what he’s talking about.
I guess none of the people who produce the evidence I rely on have any idea what they’re talking about either.
That would include the US Census Bureau, and the New York Archives.