The
lawyer for an alleged Pennsylvania prostitute says the undercover
detective who arrested her got a little too invested in his cover, the
Associated Press reported.
Homestead
Officer Ronald De Pellegrin, 48, admits that he allowed Diana Gross, 26,
to give him orál séx before he informed her that he was actually a cop,
according to the criminal complaint written by De Pellegrin and obtained
by The Smoking Gun.
De Pellegrin
says on March 22, he contacted Gross, who went by the name "Beckie
Dymon" through the website Pittsburgh Backpage, where she was allegedly
advertising herself as available for séx.
The
report states that Gross and De Pellegrin agreed to on a rate of $145
for a half hour and meet at a house in Homestead later that day. There,
he says he assured her he was not a cop before she grabbed his groin and
got naked. Then, the report states:
Gross' attorney, Michael Waltman, says De Pellegrin's conduct is unacceptable.
"One
of the key issues," Waltman told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "is that
the police in this particular instance are engaging in the exact type of
criminal activity that they're saying that they're trying to protect
the community from."
Mike
Manko, spokesman for the district attorney's office, told the
Post-Gazette that the DA Office has decided that De Pellegrin's behavior
does not "create a constitutional issue that would bar us from moving
forward with the prosecution [of Gross]."
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