Mountain_Kat
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You rock, K! I hadn't seen any of those articles before.
Wait...hadn't Megan been arrested not too long before she went missing? Am I recalling that correctly, or am I way out in left field here? Can anyone confirm?
This creep really wanted to know the laws pertaining to pimps.
Yeah, but why check into it one week before Megan went missing? She had already been working LI for close to a year, if not longer. :waitasec:
She went to LI from out of state and it may have been around this time for one reason or another that he wondered about the legal ramifications concerning himself.
Yes, but the question is: why? He's the one who got Megan into prostitution in 2009. He's the one who brought her to NY in 2009. And he brought her there regularly (every few weeks) for a year. What suddenly prompted him to investigate NY laws, through a lawyer, one week before Megan turns up missing? Why not investigate the laws when he first brought Megan to NY from Maine?
Something HAD to have triggered this visit to the lawyer. Lawyers don't work for free.
So...had he been recently arrested? Had she been recently arrested? Had another girl who worked for him (maybe Jasmine?) been recently arrested? Was someone awaiting a court date? Was he worried about a snitch, or a set up? What?
Yes she had been arrested in October 2009. It was fairly close to when they left again for NY so he was probably concerned for himself and not Megan. That's probably why he did not supervise any of the meetings out of fear of being arrested.
Maybe we're getting our wires crossed here. Megan and Cruz went to see this lawyer 1 week prior to the date Megan went missing. That would make it the end of May 2010...8 months after her arrest in October of 2009. According to this article (and other msm reports), Megan and Cruz came to NY every few months.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/unsolved/long-island-ripper/megan-waterman.html
In addition to the October 17, 2009 arrest, Megan was arrested 2 other times during that year (although, the article doesn't state where she was arrested), once for theft and once for drug paraphernalia. The last 2 arrests have nothing to do with prostitution, so these obviously weren't what prompted Cruz to look into NY state prostitution laws in May of 2010. If Megan's prostitution arrest on October 17, 2009 is what prompted him to seek counsel, why the hell would he wait 8 months to do so? Wouldn't that arrest already have gone to court and been resolved?
That could be exactly what prompted his curiosity. If she was given some sort of probation he could have been interested in what would happen if she was arrested again and what could happen to him if he was arrested for being her pimp.
If Megan was on probation, she would have to check with her probation officer and get permission if she needed to leave her county or state of residence (Maine).
If Megan was on probation, she would have to check with her probation officer and get permission if she needed to leave her county or state of residence (Maine).
Shes not asking for permission if she plans on being back before shes due to see her PO