{"id":337354,"date":"2010-02-18T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=20124"},"modified":"2010-02-18T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T03:16:10","slug":"police-indiana-woman-offered-sex-but-robbed-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337354","title":{"rendered":"Police: Indiana woman offered sex, but robbed man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Point, Ind. &#8212; A northwest Indiana woman has been charged with robbery for allegedly holding up a man at knifepoint after he&#8217;d paid her to perform a sex act.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Crystal Startup, 31, of the 5100 block of Mulberry Avenue in Portage was charged in Lake Superior Court after police traced her through the phone number she&#8217;d written on a matchbook and given to the victim.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old victim told police he was driving Feb. 12 in the 500 block of Melton Road (U.S. 20) in Gary when he saw Startup walking along the road. <span id=\"more-20124\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He offered her a ride and she agreed. Eventually, the two agreed on sex in exchange for money, police reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Startup is accused of pulling a knife, taking the man&#8217;s wallet from his coat pocket, removing the money, climbing out of his car and fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>The man called police, who used the phone number Startup had given the man to contact her.<\/p>\n<p>Startup returned the call and agreed to meet in 10 minutes to perform sex for money. Officers went to the location and arrested her.<\/p>\n<p>The charge, filed Tuesday, is punishable by a maximum 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Police: Woman Offered Sex But Robbed Man\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\/dpp\/news\/crime\/police-woman-offered-sex-robbed-man\"  rel='nofollow'>FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1Mn-YNd4b3dGdLPpSBmxZ9k5600\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1Mn-YNd4b3dGdLPpSBmxZ9k5600\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1Mn-YNd4b3dGdLPpSBmxZ9k5600\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1Mn-YNd4b3dGdLPpSBmxZ9k5600\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=UZ7BN82qW4c:PFKmdChMBGQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=UZ7BN82qW4c:PFKmdChMBGQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=UZ7BN82qW4c:PFKmdChMBGQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=UZ7BN82qW4c:PFKmdChMBGQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/UZ7BN82qW4c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crown Point, Ind. &#8212; A northwest Indiana woman has been charged with robbery for allegedly holding up a man at knifepoint after he&#8217;d paid her to perform a sex act. Amy Crystal Startup, 31, of the 5100 block of Mulberry Avenue in Portage was charged in Lake Superior Court after police traced her through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}