see! i told you it was illegal!

From today's Las Vegas Review Journal:

Prostitution sting nets part-time judge
Justice of the peace pro-tem jailed on solicitation charge

By GLENN PUIT
REVIEW-JOURNAL

A weekend police sweep targeting street prostitution in Las Vegas landed a part-time judge in jail on a solicitation charge Saturday.

Mark Peplowski -- who is listed by Clark County as a justice of the peace pro-tem and who also teaches political science at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Henderson -- was arrested Saturday during a sting operation on Fremont Street. Detectives said he solicited a sex act from a prostitute, according to police reports.

Peplowski, 51, declined to comment on his arrest when contacted by the Review-Journal on Monday.

Las Vegas police Sgt. Chris Jones said the arrest was made during a police undercover operation called P.I.M.P., which stands for Prostitutes Incarcerated by Metropolitan Police.

The sweep resulted in 184 arrests in the Las Vegas Valley over the weekend. Read more.

I guess we need to review this one more time: prostitution is legal in Nevada only at the brothels way outside of Las Vegas. It is not legal within the city limits!

But I thought the mayor wanted to legalize prostitution in the city. Perhaps I'm making that up. Seems to me that these arrests are a waste of time for the Vegas PD, but that's just my humble opinion.