Off the Street

About this book

I couldnt put it down and neither will you.John Lescoart New York Times best-selling author of the Dismas Hardy Novels and The Hunt Club Off the Street is detective Christopher Baughmans true life story of fighting to protect a class of women who are too easily forgotten and readily dismissed. Now co-host of the MSNBC-TV series Slave Hunter Chris and the Las Vegas Pandering Investigation Team (PIT) wage war against the pimps who kidnap trick and beat women into submission and into a life of prostitution. What begins with an attempt to apprehend arrest and convict a pimp responsible for beating a woman with a baseball bat over a two-day period quickly spirals into something far more sinister. Chris shares the emotions of the victims parents and family members who are involved in this investigation and offers parents guidance on how to protect their daughters from these predators. Chris ventures back to his own youth to a memory that served as the momentum for his passion for saving the people and the city he has sworn to protect. Christopher Baughman heads up the Pandering Investigation Team (PIT) and Human Trafficking Task Force in Las Vegas where his team has arrested and convicted several of the citys wealthiest and most violent criminals. Their success caught the attention of investigative reporter Chris Hansen of NBCs Dateline Undercover: To Catch a Predator and has been the subject of several episodes as well as a segment on NBCs American Greed. Chris teaches the anatomy of pandering investigations to other departments across the nation including members of the FBI IRS and federal parole and probation agencies.