Mercer Island Patch is pretty tame.

Just how many officers in the police department went "undercover" in the nine months of surveillance?

The Best 9 Month Investi(va)cation A Cop Could Ever Want !!! Seriously. Wow....

nine months to catch these girls doing illegal things? yeah, I think the cops were enjoying this sting operation a little to much and kept reporting to their boss "we need just a little more time" hahaha

Thank God this den of sin is finally gone... Say, do you have any surveillance PHOTOS of the naughty ladies you might be able to post?

Bikini Baristas BUSTed! How hard was it to avoid that headline??? Happy Friday.

Sounds like entrapment. Were the cops forced to give the girls money? Is this really prostitution? Here in Nevada prostitution consists of giving money for sex. Baring one's breasts for money isn't prostitution. If it was, all the girls at the strip clubs here would be arrested and there would be no strip/nudie clubs.

Here we go again.Police screwing up a good thing.

I can't believe they actually spent time and money on this... What a bunch of Dumb-Asses.

And American women are all SECOND CLASS citizens in the eyes of the law. When a male is busted for going topless or flashing his man-boobs, then you will be equal. Until then, stay down with the boot on your necks and take it like "a man"?

Wow, great police work nimrods........I guess nothing else the cops coupd have focused on while doing this 9 month undercover operation took place.

WOW, are you serious. There must be no real crime in that district. How many times did the officers have to watch the girls expose themselves before they deemed it unlawful? Pathetic. Watch out, there may be some illegal squirrel jaywalking in that neighborhood also!

Wow, Frank, calm down. That anger seems a little misdirected unless you;
- were rejected by the police force
- your girlfriend cheated on you with a cop
- have been arrested
- were picked on in school (yourself)
- (fill in personal persecution complex)

I do agree on one thing. There is a percentage of police that were picked on in school and have taken that profession so they now have "the power". They feel the need to abuse people in order to feel better about themselves.

and nobody teased frank fremski?

This is one of the dumbest uses of police resources that I have heard of lately. Sex and exposing one’s own body by consenting adults should NOT be illegal. They are not harming anyone and each male or female that showed up consented to go there and the ones exposing themselves consented to expose themselves for money. There is absolutely nothing these people should have been arrested for, and I believe that the police should have better things to do.

How can a ctizen be arrested for acts that have been permitted in the white house for over 200 years. If it's good for the president it should be good for the citizens. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

Wow, it's like people never seen whores before...

This was a real Waste of resources time and effort. Who really cares if women show their breasts for tips ? Spending 9 months to arrest a bunch of women what about the guys that went in. Double Standard?

Omg this is so dumb I cant believe this ...WHY in the hell are they wasting there time with this crap..... When real crimes are happening like murder,rape,children being killed and kidnap.... WASTING TAX PAYERS MONEY ON THIS BULL!!!

Wow, wasting time and money going after a coffee shop with nipples on the side!!!!!

I feel SO much safer now!!!! Thank you, officer's for protecting us from evil!!!
I mean, just because there are KNOWN gangs that KNOWINGLY operate freely destroying this country from the inside out with their murders, selling drugs, corrupting young people, ruining complete neighborhoods, and petty stuff like that, I'm sure you used your best judgement and decided girls flashing their bombs to desperate, loser type guys was way more important to the security of this country and it's citizen.....Nice job Barney!!!

OMG nine months to investigate this? What a waste of tax payers money. The cops should cracking down on the real criminals. I'm going to check YouTube for this story

I hope they charged extra in Winter?? Pretty rough going to work dressed like that when it's 5c outside. Java Juggs!! Just love it. First mistake. Do not open a business where City Hall has had a sense of humour failure.

Let's hear it for the Edmonds undercover sting. 9 months of undercover work for such a crack group of police officers. Speaking of crack how was the crack trade doing on the streets of Edmomds while all the time and effort was being paid to the coverup (pordon the pun) of the wild and dangerous case of the expose cafeine induce set of ta-ta's. Next time I drive through Edmonds I will take great comfort knowing the flash I'll see will be from a drive by shooters 9mm hand gun rather than some womans expose breast.
Tim Hagan Deming

Waste of tax dollars dictating morality, I thought America was land of the free, I guess not.

Lol... I am loving the argument in here. It's shows what really makes our country great! Freedom of speech!

Me thinks there are too many folks on the Edmonds Police Force. Suggest we let a few of them go and transfer the money saved to the public schools.

I'll have a little breast milk in my coffee please. Oh, you say that's extra. That's OK.

Most people find it acceptable that a 10 year old should not be able to go to a nude bar. Why should a 10 year old be exposed to such behaviors in public. If such behavior would be allowed, the touching would eventually lead to more and pretty soon full blown prostitution in the bushes behind the coffee shop. Then a guy does not pay and now the girl needs protection. We don't have to think very far to realize that allowing such activities would ultimately increase crime. I think the Edmonds PD did the community a service.

They should of opened the buisness in Washington DC, they would of all retired in the nine months the cops took to investigate, maybe there would not of being an investigation

really, nine months sitting in bushes waiting for three woman to break the law? how much did this cost taxpayers? frival

legalize prostitution.

How about that for justice in this country - a woman can get away with the murder of her child but if she works at a coffee shop and shows a little too much skin - they throw the book at her!

Also if Java Juggs Expresso was in Washington DC, it may have kept the Republican Congressmen doing what they are good at, and give the country back to the people.

Disgusting.

Do they have nothig better to do than arres a couple chicks fashing their TITS?? Maybe why don't theygo out and arrest real criminals??? Lame ass cops and their freaing donuts!!

I, for one, am glad they finally shut that place down - hope the one a block from my house issoon to follow. All complaints about free speach aside - the stands attract a very bad element to the neighborhood!

NOW what am I going to do with the Jackson in my pocket...?

Edmonds changes its' name to Pig City

All very funny this sounds like it would make a good episode for Homer Simpson.

Another tax paying, service oriented, independently owned business bites the dust. And it only took the cops a little less than a year to do it. GOOD JOB !

Wow, what a waste. I'm sure the drug dealers were out there laughing as they pushed pounds of coke around and the cops were too busy looking at video of girls showing some boobs. How about next time we do a 10 month investigation on who's dog is leaving dog poop in my yard in the middle of the night! Let's waste some more money and when we run out we can take it away from our schools!

Can't you law enforcement idiots find something better to do with you time and resources. Are you afraid of facing real and dangerous criminals?

What a despicable waste of taxpayer money.

hey

I would be so embarrassed if I lived in Edmonds. How could you look a person in the eye and keep a straight face. This is just soooo pathetic. Can you imagine what the Edmonds cops think? They're the laughingstock of the country!

The word Edmondsed could become a verb, as in to do something that is pointless, pathetic, and wasteful and be proud of it!

Nine months to investigate bare breasts??? Nice Police work. Did the police make copies and sell them on the side. I bet they even have their own copies at home. What a joke and a waste of tax payer money.

I swear these cops should b worried about real crimes u know rape, murder, child molestation, and drugs. I would love to hear how they justify spending 9 months of taxpayers money in this economy on busting a COFFEE shop. Instead theyd rather go after a "dangerous" COFFEE shop who serves coffe ADULT men. I agree some women might get jealous maybe they envee those girls because they are attractive but the rule my wife gave me is u can look but if u touch, ur b.... get removed. But honestly people remember this one true fact from the police themselves. "Guns don't kill people, bare Brests do" : ) So all of u attractive coffee baristas are gonna have to keep'em holstered until more sainer minds prevail...

9 months of prodding the girls to expose themselves, that is entrapment.
Prosecutors should really learn the law.
How many visits and how much money?
Was this investigation pushed by the Prosecutors office? No Police Commander would waste his departments resources on this unless he was being forced to do it by higher-ups.

To Nibor Ceenelo who made the assinine comments above. I am a mother of two and me and my kids are not hurt by this. If your ole man as you put was out playing with other women, then maybe you need to take a look at yourself and how you may have contributed to your failing marriage. Just because men like to look at beautiful women, enjoy porn, or even want to touch a beautiful woman does not make for an addiction. Sex and the enjoyment of sex is not an addiction. I am sick and tired of people like you who are public busy bodies trying to force your morals and values on others. It is a damn shame that the police did this, and now this entrepreneur may be out of business. It doesn't take 9 months to do an investigation on this, and it seems to be a bit hypocritical of the cops to enjoy doing the very thing they arrest other people for.

This story received the most hits in 2010...check story on Dec. 30, 2011.

Does the paper know how many actual hookers roamed the Edmonds streets free because the cops were busy peeping on these innocent girls?

Most likely a nearby coffee shop whose ugly baristas were losing business to the cute girls in bikinis. If business is war, then this was a war crime!