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by Trench on January 31st, 2007

Neighbors say pricey Beach house site of much criminal activity:
This is a tale of what happens when a craigslist advertised house of prostitution moves into the suburbs…

VIRGINIA BEACH - The neighborhood near Hilltop was quiet until “that lady and her problems” moved in - a $500,000 brick ranch-style house with a pool - more than a year ago.

Neighbors said the woman of the house did not seem to fit into the neighborhood of pricey homes. Neither did the others - some of them minors - who drifted in and out of the house at all hours.

So, the neighbors complained.

Before long, police officers had responded to 20 calls to the house for complaints of fighting, domestic assaults, drugs and disputes.

Investigators eventually came to believe that the house might be a den of drugs and prostitution that advertised on Craigslist.org, according to a police search warrant affidavit.

Over the weekend, police raided the house.

On Sunday, police charged three residents - Silesia Hope Rogowski, 38; her son, Ryan Rogowski, 20; and George Kyriacou, her 45-year-old boyfriend who owns the property - with several counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Silesia Rogowski was also charged with drug possession.

Meanwhile, Silesia Rogowski - who has been arrested 32 times in Virginia Beach since 1990 and convicted of five felonies, according to the search warrant affidavit - is being held at the city jail. Her son and boyfriend have been released, police spokeswoman Margie Long said.

In one case, an anonymous caller to Crime Solvers claimed that the property was being used to distribute drugs and might be a prostitution house, according to the search warrant affidavit.

Acting on that tip, police learned that sexual services were being offered online by a woman named Hope, the affidavit said. A listing at Craigslist.org, under the Web site’s “erotic services” section, described a unique headboard inside the house, a lighted hallway with sexually explicit photographs and a phone number.

It was the same phone number Silesia Rogowski gave to a police officer during an earlier encounter, the affidavit said.

Victimless crime huh?

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