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-- Henri E. Cauvin
CRIME
2-Year Sentence in Sex Case
A security guard who posed as a police officer to extort sex from prostitutes was sentenced yesterday in D.C. Superior Court to two years behind bars, the U.S. attorney's office said.
In 2004, Patrick Small of Gaithersburg was working as a security guard at a construction site in the 1200 block of L Street NW -- a high prostitution area at night. On Aug. 19, he approached a 16-year-old prostitute and claimed to be a D.C. police officer. He said that he was arresting her as part of a prostitution sting and that she could face up to six months in jail, the U.S. attorney's office said.
Small told the teenager that he would not arrest her if she had sex with him, and she did, prosecutors said. But the victim used mascara to write down Small's license plate number and alerted D.C. police. Investigators later identified several other victims, prosecutors said.
Small entered a guilty plea in March.
-- Henri E. Cauvin
Man Found Stabbed in NE
Neighbors getting ready for work found a dying man in a back yard in Northeast Washington yesterday morning.
Dion Butler, 39, was found in the rear of a building in the 1600 block of Isherwood Street NE about 7:30 a.m., police said.
Butler, who police said had no fixed address, was pronounced dead after being taken to Washington Hospital Center with multiple stab wounds.
-- Petula Dvorak
