Undercover Police Arrest Chicago Man for Promoting Prostitution

Photo: Claudell Arrington of Chicago, provided by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

Undercover members of the Sheriff’s Police Special Operations unit arrested a man April 15 at an Alsip hotel, where he thought he was meeting a woman he’d recruited to prostitute for him.

Claudell Arrington, age 33 of the 700 block of W. Vermont Street in Chicago, had provided the woman — who was actually an undercover officer — with the hotel room, and he posted ads on the escorts section of Backpage.com to prostitute her, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Police investigation.

Arrington had contacted the undercover female officer in March through a bait Backpage ad that had been posted for a different operation, investigators said.

Arrington has been charged with promoting prostitution, and his bond was set Friday at $10,000, according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.

The office reports that sheriff’s police have arrested more than 780 people through Backpage.com since 2009.

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