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McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are arguably among the most popular items on the mega-fast-food chain's menu, but are they so good someone would trade sexual favors for them?

A Los Angeles woman was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of prostitution for allegedly offering strangers the illegal trade of sex for nuggets, reports the Los Angeles Times.

A customer reported Khadijah Baseer to the Burbank Police Department for allegedly opening customers' car doors to offer her services at the McDonald's on Olive Avenue. She was subsequently arrested for prostitution.

Two women - residents of Los Angeles and Orange counties - were arrested during an interstate prostitution ring bust based in Chicago, Illinois, reports Chicago's Daily Herald.

Thirty-six-year-old Jenny Huynh of Los Angeles and 36-year-old Bamila Ibrahim of Fountain Valley were each charged with misdemeanor prostitution last Thursday. A Chicago couple is accused of running the interstate prostitution ring that brought in women from California and Pennsylvania into DuPage County, Illinois.

A 21-year-old Orange County man apparently did not realize that posting public Craigslist ads looking for sex with a mother and her underage daughter wouldn’t draw the attention of authorities. Instead, Shaw Bruce Warrington allegedly posted 25 ads on Craigslist, 10 of which included soliciting a minor, and was arrested in a sex sting on Thursday, reports The Orange County Register.

With ads containing such reported requirements as “young or under age is cool like high school and below,” Warrington thought he had caught the attention of a 13-year-old girl and her mother. Instead, he was actually agreeing to meet up with authorities who had set up a sex sting and had been posing as the teen since August. Officials were made aware of Warrington’s ads by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which first noticed them.

Accused pimp Leory Bragg was sentenced to 27 years in prison on kidnapping charges related to a teenage prostitution case involving a 15-year-old Upland girl, reports the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.

The 35-year-old Hawthorne man was arrested last year on accusations of forcing two runaway girls to work as prostitutes in Southern Los Angeles. The two young girls were only 13 and 14 years of age at the time.

The Upland girl’s father claimed Bragg abducted his daughter, provided her with drugs, beat her and forced her to earn up to $600 a night as a prostitute. She was reportedly held captive for three days before authorities found her in Los Angeles.

Rap artists have long bemoaned the troubles involved in pimping. As Big Daddy Kane once said, “Pimpin’ ain’t easy,” and the lifestyle is not as glamorous as the media makes it seem. In fact, it’s downright illegal in California, and the punishments under pandering and pimp laws can be severe.

Prostitution laws in California typically make it a misdemeanor crime for both men and women to offer, agree to, or engage in a sexual act for compensation. However, pimping and pandering are both considered separate felonies punishable by imprisonment in state prison for up to six years and a maximum $10,000 fine. Further, if the person you are pimping or pandering is a minor, you must register as a sex offender and, if the minor is under 16, face a maximum eight-year prison sentence.

The crackdown on prostitution in Los Angeles has had a busy few weeks. Sheriff's deputies conducted prostitution stings in Castaic, and a Santa Ana man was arrested for allegedly taking three Texan teens to Orange County with the intent to prostitute them. This might be the time to remind Angelenos that the "world's oldest profession," and the various activities stemming from, it are still prosecuted aggressively as a criminal act.

Under California law, it is unlawful for any person to loiter in public with the intent to commit prostitution (solicitation) or aid a person in the commission of prostitution in return for all or part of the proceeds earned (pimping).

People may have once believed that law enforcers turned a blind eye to the prostitution and solicitation activity on Imperial Highway between Inglewood Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in Hawthorne. However, it looks like police officers are starting to crack down on prostitution crimes, as 25 people were arrested over the past three weeks in an undercover operation.

The Los Angeles Times reports that 13 alleged "johns" were arrested when female police officers posed as prostitutes in the area. The people who propositioned the undercover officers may have been surprised when a police team stationed nearby made the arrests. Eleven suspected prostitutes and one suspected pimp were also arrested in the recent crackdown. Judges are currently in the process of handing down "stay away" orders to the alleged prostitutes and pimp, which will prohibit them from returning to the area.

After people complained of prostitution of several massage parlors in Redondo Beach, undercover police officers went into the massage businesses to investigate the complaints. KTLA News reports that the Redondo Beach police officers posed as customers at Lee's Acupuncture on Aviation Boulevard and at Ocean Acupuncture on Artesia Boulevard. Officers arrested two masseuses after the women allegedly agreed to perform sexual acts in exchange for money.

A 34-year-old man has been accused of forcing two runaway girls to work as prostitutes in Southern Los Angeles. Because the two girls are only young teenagers, ages 13 and 14, the suspect can face serious consequences if convicted of soliciting a minor.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the suspect Leroy Bragg from Hawthorne was arrested after a family contacted the Los Angeles Police Department, saying that the 13-year-old girl was being held against her will. The suspect was then booked into the Men's Central Jail and was being on held on $1.3 million bail. Last week, the county district attorney's office charged Leroy Bragg with multiple felony counts, including human trafficking involving a minor, soliciting for a minor prostitute under 16, pandering by procuring a minor under 16 and first-degree burglary. The man faces a life sentence in prison if convicted of all the charges

A man who allegedly solicited young girls at the William Mead Homes Project near downtown Los Angeles was arrested on Monday for "annoying a child under 14 and soliciting an act of prostitution," according to the Los Angeles Times.

Los Angeles police detectives were able to arrest Marco Julio Gonzales, 41, of San Gabriel, after a judge granted an arrest warrant for Gonzales. He was booked and released in lieu of $40,000 bail.