Not sure if anybody noticed
The lady booker arrested in the article is the owner of Forever.
No wonder she hasn’t been booking for months.
Not all agencies are infallible
Don't any of you remember at some point Forever was closed for a day? Knowing the agency was among the former staff of XO it made sense to me as i knew a bit about the XO story (trough back channels) but was asked to not mention it. And yes i noticed "Mia" was posting a lot on Twitter and at some point it just stopped. Was it when she was busted? i dunno. Recently Twitter been going hard against escorts profiles. Lots of indies i been following for years wich never had any issues have been banned. So probably the Forever and Mia personal profile been axed too, but i do recall there was Mia, Jason and another person wich had profiles linked to Forever.
Out of curiosity i looked at Forever posting history and noticed that today there is no specification on who is booking. In the past there was always a name. 13 pages seem to be the maximum you can see by simply looking at a profile history (you have to manually search for older posts) but i noticed several names like Laura, Sophia, Molly and a few others (all women) with no sign of Mia or Jason.
The truth is if the police wanted to bust all the agencies in Montreal they could had done so a long time ago. They deliberately CHOSE to let them run business. Maybe because to them its easier to keep an eye on it that way and its safer for the women. The question is "will this situation with XO make them change their stance on this?".
Its 2 different domains but i can draw a parrallel, it remind me a bit of illegal downloading. Everytime a website is busted another open up. They may go after the owner of said site (but never after the users) and a new one will take its place. So lets say they would shut down every major agencies who operate "in the public eye". It wouldn't stop prostitution ... we know this. I think it would become even more dangerous for the women who do not want(or can't) go indy and work in agencies. So these agencies are a bit of a compromise with LE. As long as they don't make waves they are not bothered. But XO crossed that line in multiple ways it seem.
I know its easy for me to say this because i already had decided to stay away from Montreal for a little while, but personally i think the smarter move at this moment would be to refrain from booking incalls. Im not saying outcalls is full proof, but it seem safer to me. You are in your hotel room, the only person that goes in your room is the escort herself. Police COULD send an undercover cop that way probably, but that is much more complicated than operating an incall sting. If the incalls of agencies are under surveillance, its much easier for them to do anything. They won't post officers are every hotels in Montreal ...