7 taken into custody during Fort Worth prostitution sting in neighborhoods
The focus of a prostitution detail on Wednesday was southeast Fort Worth — Tucker Street, South Riverside Drive and Cromwell Street.
An undercover Fort Worth officer was working as a prostitution decoy.
By the end of Wednesday, seven men from ages 20 to 71 were arrested and faced charges of prostitution.
In one arrest, two guns also were seized by Fort Worth police.
The vice operation occurred during the day Wednesday and most of the arrests happened from noon to about 5 p.m., according to police call logs.
Fort Worth police provided few details on the investigation, but this is an example of one arrest based on a police call log report:
Shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday, an undercover officer was in the 1800 block of E. Tucker St. when a man in a Ford CVL drove up, rolled down his passenger window and had a conversation with the officer. Minutes later, 71-year-old David Gawor of Fort Worth was arrested.
Gawor faces a charge of prostitution, according to a police call log. In addition, he faces a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.
The other arrests also occurred in the 1800 block of E. Tucker St., the 600 block of Cromwell Street and the 1300 block of S. Riverside Drive.
Those also arrested on prostitution charges included Marcos Garcia, 35, of Arlington; Javan Terral, 41, of Odessa; Antonio Cabrera, 33, of Fort Worth; Trelynn Wormley, 20, of Mansfield; and Ahmad Haidari, 23, of Fort Worth.
At the time of Terral’s arrest, authorities confiscated two weapons. He also faces a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.
Shadab Nawabi, 23, of Forest Hill, was taken into custody and faces a charge of criminal attempt of prostitution, according to a police call log.
The seven men remained in the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday. Wormley of Mansfield also was in jail on a charge of aggravated robbery in Mansfield, according to jail records.
