Eight females were arrested on prostitution charges and 15 males were arrested on solicitation charges as part of the vice squad's two-day operation, Capt. Rusty Ross said. The operation, for which male officers posed as clients and female officers posed as prostitutes, focused on Southwest Roanoke streets and not on a particular house, he said. Many of the arrests took place on Day, Marshall, Patterson and Chapman avenues, Ross said. Several residents of those streets had called police to complain that prostitution was taking place in their neighborhoods.

On July 21, Roanoke police conducted a similar operation that led to 15 arrests.

-Shawna Morrison