Category: Kansas City Missouri

A Kansas City, Mo., man was charged in federal court for enticing an 18-year-old woman across state lines for prostitution, acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.

Derrick D. Horne, 26, Kansas City, Mo., was charged with one count of enticing a person to cross state lines to engage in prostitution. A criminal complaint alleged the case grew out of an undercover operation by the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department and the FBI to target individuals who promote prostitution and to recover victims of human trafficking.

On Oct. 15, 2016, an undercover officer responded to an adult website advertisement and arranged to meet a sex worker and to pay for sex, starting at $150 for half an hour. When Horne dropped the sex worker off to meet the officer at a recreational vehicle parked behind a hotel at 1805 N. 110th St. in Kansas City, Kan., both he and the woman were arrested.

Investigators learned Horne had recruited the woman to be a prostitute, saying she could be his “lil business woman/escort” and she would “get money for doing nothing (the) majority of the time.” The first time Horne set up an appointment for the woman, the client paid $170. Horne got $80 and the woman got $90.

If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. The Kansas City, Kan., Police Department, Kansas City, Mo., Police Department, Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Department, Overland Park, Kan., Police Department, and the FBI investigated.

Traffic reconfiguration will reduce southbound I-35 to one lane between 27th Street and the Cambridge Circle from 9 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26, until 6 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation.

All work is weather dependent, according to a spokesman.

Once the new traffic configuration is in place, southbound I-35 will continue to have one lane closed through the end of October, MoDOT officials stated. This work is part of the bridge joint replacement on the bridge over Southwest Boulevard near State Line Road.

Work continues on northbound I-35. The northbound on ramp from the Cambridge Circle to I-35 and the 7th Street Trafficway on ramp to northbound I-35 remain closed until the end of October, according to MoDOT.

Motorists are reminded to slow down and pay attention as they drive past work zones. Not all work zones look alike. Work zones can be moving operations, such as striping, patching or mowing. They can also be short term, temporary lane closures to make quick repairs or remove debris from the roadway.

For more information about MoDOT news, projects or events, visit the website at www.modot.mo.gov/kansascity.