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State trooper charged with 'unnatural acts' with a hooker in Lynn, Lynn, city of sin
By adamg on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 11:07am
State Police report the arrest of one of their own on charges he paid a woman for sex - and then tried to drive away from local police in his state-issued undercover vehicle when they found the pair in intimate contact.
Efrain Montanez, 50, a member of the State Police gang unit from Salem, faces arraignment today on charges of unnatural acts, assault with a dangerous weapon (the vehicle), failure to stop for police, and running a stop sign. His alleged doxy, Katelyn Pumphret, 23, of no particular address, was charged with unnatural acts and being a common streetwalker. Montanez was off duty at the time, State Police say in a statement.
Montanez, with 27 years of service, is the second state trooper in less than a month to be arrested for alleged criminal acts.
According to State Police, Lynn Police, who had their eye on Pumphret, watched her get into Montenez's state-owned pickup truck in a parking lot near Central Square early this morning:
Lynn officers followed the pickup for a short distance, until it stopped on Suffolk Street. The Lynn officers approached on foot, observed Montanez and Pumphret ... engaged in a sexual act inside the truck. After an officer displayed his badge, Montanez put the truck in reverse and then accelerated forward to get away. As he did so, one of the Lynn officers had to put his hands on the truck and push himself away to avoid getting hit.
State Police say Montanez stopped briefly to let Pumphret out, then was finally corralled on Lynn Shore Drive by Lynn Police after he ran a stop sign.
State Police say they have taken Montanez's badge and gun and that he now faces, in addition to the criminal charges, a hearing that could result in his dismissal as a trooper.
Innocent, etc.
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I believe the charge is
I believe the charge is common nightwalker, not common street walker.
Nightwalker?
Isnt' that a type of earthworm or something?
Doxy!
It's like a crime noir up in here. Adam, are you wearing a fedora with a card that says "Press" on it?
Unnatural Acts?
Like, having sex?
Common streetwalker?
What year is this again?
Why not just stick to the prostitution bit and be done with it, rather than lay charges for things that many consensual couples do without a payment arrangement and be done with it?
Rather than....
Exactly.
The "City of Sin" rhyme reminds me of that short-lived
proposal some years ago by a state rep to change the name of Lynn to Ocean Park. Which almost immediately prompted a new rhyme:
Ocean Park
Ocean Park
As dangerous by day
As it is in the dark
For the record, I lived in Lynn for 28 years, but have never taken issue with the rhymes and jokes people make about the city.
I moved to Lynn on purpose in 2007
I feel like I have to add that line "On purpose" because of all the usual assumptions.
Trying to change the name was a dumb idea. My take on the rhyme is that you have to own it, and then turn it into a marketing tool. I've said this on Greater Boston, but I can just imagine a really cool bakery/coffee shop called "Cafe Sin," night clubs and bars taking it up, etc. The only reason why it hasn't happened is because many old timers who still hold too much political power are still sore over it. They actually get offended!
If you haven't already, check out the good things we have going on in downtown Lynn, now. To name a few - Tatiana's, Turbine, Blue Ox (open table top 100 in the COUNTRY), Arts After Hours, LynnArts RAW Arts, Cirque/47 Central...
/Central Square resident
In the early 1980s, the City of Lynn embarked on
an elaborate "I Love Lynn" marketing campaign (similar to NY state's efforts at the time) and proceeded to have "I (heart symbol) LYNN" printed on all sorts of cheap trinkets, inclduing disposable lighters.
Given Lynn's long standing reputation for suspicious fires, that last bit may not have been the best idea.
Yeah, very original.
Having artists in downtown now is helping, a bit. You'd probably not be surprised that the city has actually stopped using the services of PR firms that have told it what it needs to know in favor of ones that tell it what it wants to hear. At least, that is, to the extent the city has used PR firms.
But the political structure is changing. Younger people are getting involved. Also, the Lynn Museum, which I should have mentioned earlier, is doing great things beyond being a Historical Society, now. It's actually a pretty cool venue for beer tastings with bands, etc.
Personally, I run the city's only nightlife calendar. Some of the old-time-y cover band venues have barely figured out email, and half the Latin places don't return my emails, but I've managed to list a good chunk of what's going on. With 90,000 people, it's more of a magnet than folks in Boston realize.
Ride ride to Boston . . .
. . . ride ride to Lynn . . . Better watch out that you don't fall in.
Trot
I knew it as "Trot, trot to Boston, etc."
rhyme
Yup, that's what my grandmother sang to me & I sing to my daughter.
Poor Lynn with its easy to rhyme name.
Growing up as a young child, our variation of the rhyme
was "When you cross over the bridge ....". Which always made me think of the Fox Hill Bridge by the old GE River Works plant.
"I'm from Lynn, what can I say"
"I'm from Lynn, what can I say... people from Lynn just act this way"
excerpt of a funny tune from a native..uh...Lynn-er? Lynn-tonian?
Don White
He's a really cool guy who cares a lot about his city. The open mic he started at Walnut Street Cafe is excellent - and that's hard to say about most open mics.
Yeah that's the guy
I heard that song shortly after moving to Boston...it was a good intro to some of the surrounding areas!