The glamor of pimp life also faded earlier this summer when a roving group of men felt empowered enough to grope, poke, or stroke about 50 women after the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City.

The 15-year-old girl, a chronic runaway from an Oakland group home, could not escape the clutches of her alleged pimp in Hayward. In response to his demands, the young prostitute insisted in text ...

That was August 2009, and Manago was among the first in a group of West Seattle-based pimps to plead guilty to related crimes. Like most of the rest of those defendants, Manago did so as the ...