GOP stalwart arrested in 2-day St. Paul prostitution sting
Peter Hong, a longtime Republican operative in Minnesota, was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a charge of soliciting prostitution in St. Paul.
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Police spokesman Peter Panos said that the arrest came during the first day of a two-day sting operation during which “johns” and prostitutes responded to ads placed on the Internet and in print. Thirty-five people were arrested Wednesday and Thursday, Panos said today.
...Most recently, Hong was a point person for presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
...He is the third political figure to be arrested in a St. Paul prostitution sting in the past year.
Last summer, police arrested Tim Droogsma, a press secretary to former U.S. Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, who initially attributed his arrest to a “severe misunderstanding” before pleading guilty in January to an engaging-in-prostitution charge.
In February, New Brighton City Council member David Phillips was one of nine men nabbed in a prostitution sting. His next court appearance is in August.

