Police have nailed the man they suspect of being the post-it sex solicitor, arresting a Mississippi man Monday after catching him trying to proposition men for sex by way of hundreds of Post-it notes pasted across rest stops and gas station bathrooms around New Orleans.
APBNews.com says 26-year-old Leo Wright was charged with soliciting prostitution after an undercover sheriff's deputy arranged to trade sex for money following one such "ad" in a local restroom.
Police tell APBNews hundreds of yellow Post-it notes cropped up over the past few months, aimed at men between 16 and 30, offering money in return for various sexual acts. But they say catching Wright was "tricky".
"We didn't get reports of these notes until several days after they were posted," said James Hartman, spokesman for the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, to APBNews. "Without a time frame, we couldn't work back to see who was in the room." They also had to catch him in the act - merely finding the notes wasn't enough. It took an undercover detective making contact and knocking on a motel room door with police watching, Wright offering two $20 bills, and then arresting him.
They think Wright's their man because each of his notes listed a Slidell-area motel room number with almost identical language, an area Wright is said to have frequented while traveling for his job.
Wright faces up to six months in prison if convicted.
