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1. Tuscaloosa Real-Time News
PROSTITUTION STING LED TO ARREST OF UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA VICE PRESIDENT, 14
OTHERS
Updated: Feb. 19, 2022, 2:27 p.m. | Published: Feb. 19, 2022, 2:27 p.m.
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By Ashley Remkus | aremkus@al.com
The investigation that led to the arrest of Myron Pope, the vice president of
student life at the University of Alabama, also landed 14 other people in jail,
the authorities said Saturday.
Pope, who is also a former Crimson Tide football player, resigned after the West
Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force charged him with soliciting prostitution.
In a press release on Saturday, Capt. Phil Simpson, the task force commander,
said 15 men were arrested on Thursday and Friday nights after arranging to pay
for sex through an app. When the men arrived at an agreed upon location, they
spoke with an undercover officer, Simpson said.
Pope was booked into the Tuscaloosa County jail on Thursday and released after
posting $1,000 bail.
The authorities have not released the other men’s names. Simpson said all of the
men are charged with a misdemeanor count of soliciting prostitution, though some
face additional felony charges.
“If buyers were not seeking commercial sexual services, sex trafficking would no
longer be profitable,” Simpson said in a press release. “We hope these
operations targeting buyers show that we take this very seriously. Our goal is
to prevent future exploitation of human trafficking victims who are forced or
coerced into prostitution.”
In a statement announcing Pope’s resignation on Friday, UA President Stuart Bell
said he would appoint an interim vice president of student life.
Pope had held the position since May of 2020. He previously worked for the
university as a clinical assistant professor in the higher education
administrative program, according to a press release announcing his appointment.
He also served as director of recruitment programs/alternative certification
from 1997-2000.
In 1992, Pope was a walk-on member of the Crimson Tide football team that beat
Miami to win the national championship.
He is a native of Sweet Water, a town located about 100 miles west of Montgomery
in Marengo County,
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