Homeland Security Helps Nab 80-Year-Old Man for Paying a Sex Worker |
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Homeland Security Helps Nab 80-Year-Old Man for Paying a Sex Worker
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.9.2026 11:25 AM
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Here's your periodic reminder that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security—the agency tasked with safeguarding America from terrorism and other grave threats—is also in the business of policing private sexual acts between adults.
An 80-year-old man was recently arrested in Plattsburgh, New York, as part of an ongoing Homeland Security investigation into potential prostitution at a massage business. He was charged with the misdemeanor crime of patronizing prostitution in the third degree.
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The arrest was made by deputies with the Clinton County Sheriff's Office as they helped Homeland Security Investigations execute a federal search warrant at "an alleged prostitution enterprise operating as a massage parlor," per a Sheriff's Office press release. Further information is supposed to be released later by the Buffalo field office of Homeland Security Investigations.
The elderly man may have been a bonus bust in this operation, not the express point of it. But he's far from the first person facing criminal charges because Homeland Security has decided to take an interest in stopping sex between consenting adults. (Or, one suspects, to police immigration under the auspices of policing sex.)
Homeland Security routinely teams up with local cops to police independent massage businesses, searching for signs of sex. Almost always, the targeted businesses are operated and staffed by Asian women.
The feds say they're........