March 7, by tomaswell. There was a recent story in the Baton Rouge Advocate that caught my attention and at the same time elicited my skepticism and more than a little amusement at the thought of my local Denham Springs Police Department conducting an undercover investigation of human trafficking and prostitution. When I moved out here in , Denham, as the locals refer to it, was indeed sleepy.
You could practically fire a cannon down Range Avenue, the main north-south drag, and not hit anything. Not today. The Baton Rouge bedroom community, along with the entirety of Livingston Parish, has exploded in population over the past three decades and along with that growth came the usual problems of traffic congestion and crime. And apparently prostitution. Undercover investigators began surveillance of three local massage parlors. Most of my redneck wag friends would snicker at the use of that particular word.
There are not enough local ordinances for us to properly manage those kinds of facilities. We were keeping our twin grandchildren while their parents, my eldest daughter and her husband, were out of town. We let them sleep in our bed and I was assigned to the guest bedroom and my wife opted for the sofa in the living room.
The layout of the living room is unique in that it has windows in the back of the room that look out into our carport which at the time did not have an enclosure that was remedied after the flood of The carport has a motion-activate light and at 4 a. When I opened the door leading into the carport, he bolted, and disappeared down our driveway. The Denham police were summoned in the vain hope that they might apprehend the would-be thief.
How foolish of me to make such an assumption. Given all that, I have to wonder if undercover officers found any fingerprints at those massage parlors. Posted in Uncategorized 3 Comments. I had been holding off, but here goes: Any relevant fingerprints would surely have been washed or worn off by now.
