Jamar Simmons is suspended without pay from Baltimore City FD.
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Today’s Baltimore Sun describes in detail the prostitution related charges against Firefighter Jamar Simmons of the Baltimore City Fire Department. A month ago Simmons was arrested with another man, Franklin Coit, on charges similar to those they were arrested for in Baltimore County in 2010. In that case the men received probation before judgment.
Today’s article cites court records that accuse the men of operating a prostitution ring out of an apartment in Southwest Baltimore. The charges indicate that Simmons and Coit pocketed a percentage of the money taken in by a group of women selling sex out of the apartment.
Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun:
Inside the raided apartment, according to court records, city police found a stage with two floor-to-ceiling poles, a large bar with a DJ booth, two bedrooms and a kitchen with six lockers labeled with women’s nicknames.
In one room, court records say, police found a chalkboard with written reminders to the women. Among them: do not mention sex for money on the phone, always search clients for police wires and tout the location of the third-story, loft-style apartment in the 200 block of S. Pulaski Street as being just 10 minutes from downtown.
“Ask about law enforcement!” the board warned, according to court records.
Police say the loft housed a prostitution ring that Simmons and 33-year-old Franklin Coit — a pair arrested in Baltimore County in 2010 on similar prostitution charges — had built with the help of some 25 women over the past couple of years.
The lawyer for Simmons denies that the apartment was a hub for prostitution and denies his client operated as a pimp. Simmons is suspended without pay from the department. An internal fire department investigation is also underway.
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Come on. It was a dancing academy. In an apartment. With two bedrooms. And you can never be too careful about that pesky law enforcement.
WOW if this is all true he has destroyed a great career and I hope that he is going to enjoy a long prison term.
Somehow I think his career was never going to be with the BCFD. Just a cover for the real money.
He did not destroy a great career. He just proved himself to be worthy of a career in Maryland politics.
And just 10 minutes from downtown…
Pimp’n aint easy!
So a working fireman was on probation for prostitution charges? Is that what I’m reading?! He was arrested before for this 2 years ago and is still on the job?!
The FD gig was just for the health insurance… LOL
He should have been fired two years ago but I know why he wasn’t! Maybe he was working from the fire house lining up men to go to the “club”.
It never ceases to amaze me who gets hired. I know standup guys who have been volunteers for a long long time that can’t get a paid FF position yet guys like this who were, I’m sure, of questionable charecter when they got hired, have no problems, unbelievable.