Just before police arrested 18-year-old Megan Johanna Schoon on suspicion of prostitution in May, she told an undercover detective she enjoys expensive materialistic items that she couldnt afford to buy on her assistant teachers salary, according to investigators reports.

Schoon, one of 10 people arrested in connection with a suspected prostitution ring that advertised on Craigslist, said she was working days at a Bend preschool and was studying at Central Oregon Community College to become a teacher.

When Schoon was taken into custody May 15, investigators released few details of her arrest, which they say happened as part of a sting operation to take down a prostitution ring operating in Lane and Deschutes counties.

But court documents filed since then provide details of the allegations against Schoon and a 22-year-old Eugene man charged with acting as a pimp for a 17-year-old girl.

Schoon is scheduled to appear at a hearing in Deschutes County Circuit Court on Monday on charges of prostitution, engaging in sex with a minor and having the encounter photographed for an ad posted on Craigslist. Her phone had been disconnected as of Friday, and her public defender, Joel Wirtz, could not be reached for comment.

The joint sting operation conducted by Bend and Eugene police took place just as national attention was focused on Craigslist and its ads.

Two days before Schoons arrest, Craigslist executives announced they were dropping the sites exotic services category after a Boston University medical student was charged with murdering a masseuse he met through Craigslist.

The site has since launched an adult services section that prohibits nude or pornographic images as well as ads or photos implying or suggestive of an exchange of sex for money.

But before the site changed its policy, investigators say Schoon posted at least four advertisements on Craigslist-Bend between March and May that included graphic photos and explicit language offering sexual services.

Court documents show Bend police detectives teamed up with Eugene police as well as Bend- and Eugene-based FBI agents earlier this year to investigate Craigslist ads offering sexual services.

Craigslist ads

An affidavit filed by Bend Police Detective Faith Bryan says Schoon posted Craigslist ads using the name Sherri on March 14 and 15 as well as May 5 and 12.

Bryan could not be reached for comment.

Schoons charge of having sex with a minor stems from a photo in one of the ads of two women performing sexual acts in a shower. Investigators say the other woman in the ad was 17 years old when the photo was taken.

The postings also contained photos of Schoon kneeling on a bed wearing black see-through lingerie with fishnet leggings and boots, Bryan wrote.

In response to the postings, Lane County Detective Rick Lowe called a phone number listed in the ad and spoke with Schoon on May 7, identifying himself as a John looking for a prostitute in Bend, according to a Eugene Police Department incident report.

They discussed the price for services in terms the detective said prostitutes use to refer to sex.

One week later, the Eugene vice narcotics team arrived in Bend and set up an undercover house where they met with girls from various online prostitution sites, Lowe wrote. Investigators wired the southwest Bend home with audio and video surveillance equipment.

Schoon arrived at the house at about 8 p.m., Lowe wrote, and collected 10 $100 bills Lowe had placed on an end table. She had an overnight bag with her and brought condoms to the house, according to Lowe.

The two began talking, and Schoon said she had been working as an escort since she was 14, Lowe wrote.

Lowe then gave a predeter- mined arrest signal, and Schoon was taken into custody.

After her arrest, Eugene police Detective Curtis Newell interviewed Schoon and summarized the conversation in a second incident report. The report says the 17-year-old girl was involved with a young man named Brian.

Another arrest

Police subsequently arrested 22-year-old Eugene resident Brian Adam Rogers, who has been charged with multiple criminal counts in both Lane and Deschutes counties in connection with the sting. Police reports say Rogers took the photo of the two women in the shower and helped create the ad.

Since her arrest, Schoon has posted $5,000 bail to secure her release from the Deschutes County jail. Wirtz, her lawyer, has requested she be allowed to travel this month to Minnesota, where she is on her moms health plan for oral surgery.

Wirtz also has issued a subpoena to Craigslist officials demanding they provide records pertaining to the credit card purchase (specifically the name of the purchaser and the name of the credit card used) of an advertisement placed in the exotic services section of the Bend OR Craigslist on the dates Schoon allegedly placed her ads.

Rogers has been charged in Lane County with two counts of felony promoting prostitution and one count each of encouraging prostitution and child sex abuse. He was being held Friday at the Lane County jail on $450,000 bail.

Rogers Lane County public defender, Michael V. Phillips, could not be reached for comment.

A Deschutes County grand jury also has charged Rogers with using a child in a display of sexual conduct, compelling prostitution, encouraging child sex abuse and two counts of prostitution. A warrant for his arrest has been issued in Deschutes County, and bail has been set at $150,000.

Rogers has prior convictions in Lane County of dealing marijuana and methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance and hindering prosecution.

He is scheduled to appear in Lane County Circuit Court on Monday.

Three other men arrested on suspicion of promoting prostitution had not been formally charged as of Friday.

Five women have been charged with prostitution in connection with the sting.

Stephanie Leanne Whitson, 21, of Prineville, and Jessica Lynn Carr, 23, of Redmond, have pleaded guilty to one count each of misdemeanor prostitution.

Brittney Nicole Crowley, 20, of Bend, has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor prostitution.

The three women have yet to be sentenced.

Tami Lynn Collier, 49, of Bend, has been charged with one count of misdemeanor prostitution and is scheduled to enter a plea Sept. 2.

Amy Leanne Lauffenberger, 23, of Lebanon, also has been charged with one count of misdemeanor prostitution, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest.