Zumba posts - Crimesider

Maine Zumba instructor pleads guilty in prostitution case

Mar 29, 5:46PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Alexis Wright

/ CBS This Morning

(AP) PORTLAND, Maine - A dance instructor accused of using her Zumba fitness studio as a front for prostitution pleaded guilty Friday to 20 counts in a scandal that captivated a quiet seaside town.

Jail time, apology, in Zumba prostitution case

Mar 21, 2:38PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Mark Strong Sr. hugs his wife Julie after she became emotional while addressing the judge during Strong's sentencing at Cumberland County Superior Court in Portland, Maine, on March 21, 2013.

/ AP Photo/Portland Press Herald, Gregory Rec, Pool

(CBS/AP) PORTLAND, Maine - Mark Strong Sr., an insurance agent who helped run a prostitution operation out of his mistress's small-town Zumba studio and watched secretly videotaped sex acts, apologized for the pain he'd caused his family prior to getting sentenced to 20 days in jail on Thursday.

Businessman to be sentenced in Zumba paid-sex case

Mar 21, 8:34AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Mark Strong Sr. leaves the Cumberland County Court House in Portland, Maine on Jan. 18, 2013

/ AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File

(CBS/AP) PORTLAND, Maine - An insurance agent is scheduled to be sentenced today for being the business partner of a Zumba fitness instructor in what prosecutors described as an elaborate and high-tech prostitution operation in a small coastal town.

Notorious Zumba studio in Maine to reopen again

Mar 11, 2:14PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

A sign near a marina in Kennebunk, Maine on Oct. 12, 2012 where a Zumba studio was shut down on allegations that it was used as a prostitution front

/ File, AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty

(CBS/AP) KENNEBUNK, Maine - A Zumbia studio in a southern Maine town will reopen this month after it was shut down a year ago on allegations that the instructor was using it as a prostitution front.

Jury deliberations begin in agent's Zumba trial

Mar 6, 11:00AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Mark Strong Sr. leaves a court house in Portland, Maine on Jan. 18, 2013

/ AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File

(CBS/AP) ALFRED, Maine - Jurors in the trial of Mark Strong Sr. will enter deliberations Wednesday with two images of the defendant: a man who was either a Zumba instructor's shrewd business partner or a smitten lover who wanted to help the single mother.

Officer testifies about items in Zumba instructor's office

Mar 1, 2:51PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Zumba fitness instructor Alexis Wright during her arraignment in Portland, Maine on 109 counts including prostitution, violation of privacy and tax evasion.

/ CBS This Morning

(AP) ALFRED, Maine - A Zumba instructor accused of prostitution had $1,000 cash, a badge and state identification as an assistant investigator in her possession, according to testimony Friday by a police officer testifying in the trial of an insurance agent connected to the case.

Zumba trial jurors see video with sex-for-cash exchange

Feb 28, 1:36PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Mark Strong Sr., right, with his attorney Dan Lilley, left, during Strong's arraignment on October 9, 2012.

/ AP Photo/Joel Page

(CBS/AP) ALFRED, Maine - The jury in the trial of Mark Strong Sr., an insurance agent charged with promoting prostitution at a Kennebunk, Maine Zumba studio, watched a video Thursday showing a sexual encounter between fitness instructor Alexis Wright and a man, which ended with him leaving cash on her massage table.

Zumba trial judge won't dismiss charges

Feb 26, 2:19PM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Mark Strong Sr., right, with his attorney Dan Lilley, left, during Strong's arraignment on October 9, 2012.

/ AP Photo/Joel Page

(CBS/AP) ALFRED, Maine - The judge in the trial of Mark Strong Sr., an insurance agent accused of helping fitness instructor Alexis Wright use her Zumba studio as a front for prostitution, has refused a request to throw out the remaining 13 counts against Strong.

Judge to discuss motions in Zumba paid-sex trial

Feb 26, 11:11AM by Crimesider Staff Topics Daily Blotter

Mark Strong Sr., right, sits with his attorney Dan Lilley, left.

/ AP Photo/Joel Page

(CBS/AP) ALFRED, Maine - The judge in the trial of Mark Strong Sr., an insurance agent accused of helping fitness instructor Alexis Wright use her Zumba studio as a front for prostitution, is giving jurors a respite from testimony to address several motions, including a request to toss the remaining 13 counts.