Hooker Busted for Soliciting Police Chief

(Fostoria, Ohio) A 39-year-old local woman, Catherine Tate, was arrested this week for offering sex for money to Chief of Police John McGuire.

"At first I thought it was a joke and then I realized she didn't know who I was," the chief said yesterday. "She persisted in asking if I was interested in sex for payment."

He told her that he needed to go to an ATM to get cash but instead drove to the police station and got Officer Derek Wensinger and a tape recorder. The officer hid in the back of the car and turned on the tape recorder when the prostitute climbed into the front seat and repeated her terms.

"After some very cool and colorful conversation, we made an agreement for sex for money," the chief said, adding that he quickly broke the news to her that he was the police chief and one of his officers was in the backseat.

In court yesterday, Tate was sentenced to 12 days in jail after pleading no contest to three misdemeanors -- soliciting, possession of criminal tools, and possession of drug paraphernalia.