{"id":493395,"date":"2026-10-12T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493395\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T08:28:24","slug":"i-can-make-you-millions-oakley-man-attempted-to-recruit-cops-posing-as-prostitutes-da-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493395\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I can make you millions&#8217;: Oakley man attempted to recruit cops posing as prostitutes, DA says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 An Oakley man has been charged with attempting to woo two undercover cops who posed as prostitutes, inviting them to \u201ccome f\u2014 with me\u201d for $2,500, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Marshawn English, 28, was charged with two counts of pandering and one misdemeanor count of aiding prostitution after the Sept. 23 sting. The women were standing near 17th Avenue and International Boulevard when English allegedly approached and leaned out of a car\u2019s rear window to speak to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can make you millions,\u201d he allegedly offered, before explaining they\u2019d need to pay $2,500 and chiding them for \u201cdisloyalty\u201d to their current pimps.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, the women revealed themselves to be undercover cops and English was arrested. He has been released while the case is pending and isn\u2019t due in court for a preliminary hearing until mid-November, records show. He pleaded not guilty on Sept. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 An Oakley man has been charged with attempting to woo two undercover cops who posed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[861,862,3650,54615,12906,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-493395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-human-trafficking","tag-oakland-pimping","tag-oakland-prostitution","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}