Coach charged with pimping
During the day, Esperanza Brooks helped coach cheerleaders at the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy.
But Las Vegas police say she had other interests at night.
Vice detectives say Brooks, 36, along with Rashena Rashel Kemp, 30, were pimping out hookers in the valley.
The two women, along with three others, were arrested on prostitution-related charges.
Police say Brooks and Kemp recently sent three of their workers to meet undercover officers for “prostitution related activities” at a local hotel and casino, which led to their arrest.
The investigation into the two women began when detectives learned two weeks ago that a coach at the charter school was moonlighting as a pimp.
Brooks and Kemp were found at a restaurant Wednesday night and were booked into the Clark County Detention Center.
Brooks was charged with three counts each of pandering, living from the earnings of a prostitute, conspiracy to commit pandering and conspiracy to live from the earnings of a prostitute. She also was charged with attempted pandering and attempted living from the earnings of a prostitute. She was being held on $28,000 bond.
Kemp was charged with three counts each of conspiracy to commit pandering and conspiracy to live from the earnings of a prostitute. She was held on $5,000 bond.
Rob Powers, a spokesman with Agassi Preparatory, said Brooks worked part time with the cheerleading squad but was not a faculty member. She also was a parent at the school, he said.
When school officials learned of the arrest Friday, they immediately suspended Brooks, Powers said.
“We’re cooperating with authorities,” he said. “The well-being of our students is our primary concern.”
Powers said that although Brooks worked only part time at the school, she went through a thorough background check that included fingerprinting and a check for any criminal record.
“She came out clean,” he said.
“Parents should be aware that no information has been uncovered to indicate any of the school’s students were involved in these activities,” police said in a news release.
Police insisted that Brooks’ two careers never mixed.
Also charged were Rachael Alexander, 24; Rachel Wall, age unknown; and Tiffany Alvord, 20. Each faces one count of soliciting for the purpose of prostitution.
Wall also was charged with possession of cocaine.
