"Metro madam" suspect in prostitution ring from Bowie By JANE MCHUGH Staff Writer
A Bowie woman is suspected of being a Metro madam, pulling double duty as a subway station manager in Washington and arranging assignations with prostitutes using subway facilities, authorities allege.
Sharon Waters, 42, of the 15300 block of Johnstone Lane, was arrested last month after meeting with an out-of-town businessman at the Farragut North stop and introducing him to a woman, another subway employee, who agreed to perform a sex act for $200, according to charging affidavits.
But the businessman, it turned out, was an undercover Metro Transit Police officer.
He was investigating a complaint that Waters was handing out fliers advertising trips to South America "with possible sexual undertones," the charging papers said.
The papers describe how Waters allegedly met personally with the "businessman" and made arrangements to have paid sex.
The officer approached Waters at the Dupont Circle stop June 4, where she worked as a manager, asking her about the flier in which she was identified as a representative of the Blossom Travel Agency. Waters pulled out a book containing "numerous nude and sexually explicit pictures of women from Brazil that were available on the trips," an affidavit said. She also told him about a "sex party" she was arranging in the D.C. area where people would pay a $100 cover charge to "enter and watch sex shows and engage in sexual activity."
Waters gave him her cell phone number; he called asking if she could provide women, and she responded positively, the charging papers said. One of the women she said was available was later identified as Pam Goins, 45, a custodian at the Farragut North stop.
June 11, the officer, this time wired with audio and video surveillance equipment, met Waters at Dupont Circle. Again she showed him the Brazilian pictures and reiterated that the sex party would be taking place, court papers said.
Waters said she knew a Metro employee who, like herself, was a station manager, and who would be willing to meet him for sex but that she couldn't find the woman. Then she said she knew a second Metro worker who was interested, and got on the loudspeaker system and paged "Pam."
The officer, Waters, Goins and an unidentified male Metro employee walked up to the Connecticut Avenue street level area of the station and talked business.
Goins said she'd engage in sexual acts for $200, according to the affidavit. The officer agreed and they arranged to meet at the Washington Hilton later in the week. During the conversation, the affidavit said, Goins "made numerous references to different sexual acts she wanted to perform with (the officer) and grabbed his crotch/groin area."
Warrants were issued for Waters' and Goins' arrest June 17 for soliciting prostitution.
Contacted at her home, Waters declined to comment, referring a reporter to her lawyer, Ken Robertson of Washington. Robertson said he had nothing to say.
Goins did not return a telephone message. She faces an additional, theft-related charge for having stolen Victoria's Secret merchandise - bag, panties, hand lotion, perfume - in her possession when she met the undercover officer, according to court papers.
