White Bear Lake hockey coach arrested in St. Paul prostitution sting
An assistant coach for the White Bear Lake Area High School girls hockey team is on administrative leave after he was arrested in St. Paul last week in an undercover prostitution sting.
Police cited Bradley David Sperling, 45, of White Bear Lake, for engaging in prostitution, a misdemeanor.
The St. Paul police vice unit was conducting an undercover operation last Tuesday, in which nine men were arrested.
Sperling went to a location that police were using for the sting last Tuesday at about 1:20 p.m., allegedly agreed to pay $100 to an undercover female officer for sexual services, and was arrested, said Sgt. Paul Schnell, police spokesman.
Schnell said he thought the scenario was similar to a sting the department has used in the past — undercover officers post ads on Web sites, offering sex for money and "Johns" respond to the ads.
The White Bear Lake Area Public Schools received a complaint about Sperling on Friday and he was "immediately placed on leave," said Marisa Vette, communications coordinator. Sperling has been the assistant coach for the girls hockey team since 2003, she said.
A woman who answered the phone at Sperling's home Monday said they had no comment and hung up.
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