Brian Spayde, 42, of Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States previously lived in Jamestown, New York, USA. Aside from Youngstown, he has lived in other parts of Ohio including Campbell and Struthers.
On March 14, 2016, Spayde registered to vote in Mahoning County. He is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Spayde allegedly requested sexual conduct with an undercover agent in exchange for $120 and drove to Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio for the meeting on February 3, 2023. When Spayde arrived, the agent arrested him.
A suspended 90-day jail term was given to Spayde for engaging in prostitution and possessing criminal tools. He was fined $750 and ordered to complete 20 hours community service and a 12-hour education course.
Recently, Spayde was arrested again. He was one of the suspects in Operation Buyer’s Remorse, a human trafficking crackdown conducted in Ohio from September 25-30, 2023.
Operation Buyer’s Remorse was led by the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission (OOCIC) of the office of Ohio’s attorney general Dave Yost, 66. Eight human trafficking and major crimes task forces of the OOCIC conducted a series of coordinated stings.
On September 29, 2023, Austintown Police Department officers arrested Spayde and five other men in Austintown, Mahoning County, Ohio. The others were Christopher Suarez, 56, of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA, Michael Bender, 41, of Warren, Ohio, Cornelius Echols, 35, of Effingham, South Carolina, USA, Deshawn Evans, 26, of Austintown and Jonathan Waguespack, 21, of Poland, Ohio.
Including Spayde, a total of 160 suspects were arrested. Most of them are from Ohio while some are from other parts of the U.S. including Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia and others are from other countries including Afghanistan, Bhutan, India and Nepal.
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