[Rhodes22-list] Attempted Assault With a Dead Weapon

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Keep the world running, my employer insists that we continue to fly through
business cycles and won't give me the week off. I stumbled across this gem
this morning while cruising through the morning news prior to departure.

Brad
1 Of 2 93-Year-Olds Charged In Manatee County Sex Sting

By ANTHONY CORMIER

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Published: March 25, 2008

MANATEE COUNTY - Prosecutors are moving ahead with a case against one of two
93-year-old men picked up during undercover prostitution stings.

In the case of Frank Milio, prosecutors have issued subpoenas and plan to
take him to trial in April.

Milio, according to police records, tried to pay $20 in November to an
undercover officer on 14th Street West.

Milio recently told the Herald-Tribune he was only flirting with the woman.

"I haven't had that in years," he said. "Ninety-three is kind of old."

Carlos Underhill, 93, will not be charged, although he does not deny
stopping to chat with the "good-looking girl" who made eyes at him and
turned out to be an undercover officer.

Police say Underhill was willing to pay $30 for sex and that he promised to
come back a few hours later to consummate the deal.

Prosecutors say that they cannot move ahead with the criminal case because
there is no way to prove Underhill planned to come back.

Underhill was fined $150 for trying to pick up a prostitute in 1990, when he
was 75. In the latest case, he says, he was not cruising Tamiami Trail for
sex: He just wanted to chat with the buxom woman who smiled at him as he
drove past.

"All I was going to do was talk," he said Monday. "It wasn't for sex. I am
93, you know."

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