San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York — whose family is worth an estimated $8.5 billion — was arrested on Sunday at 9:35 a.m. for trying to pay just $140 for sex in a Ohio trailer park, according to court documents obtained by the California Post.
York responded to an advertisement on Sunday from a known prostitution website in Columbiana County, Ohio and “arranged to have sexual activity with the female in exchange for $140.”
However, when York was on the way to a meeting who he thought was a sex worker at a trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio, he was taken into custody by an agent from the Mahoning Valley Human trafficking Task Force, who had orchestrated the sting operation.
East Palestine Police
The trailer park, Wheat Hill MHP, later claimed on Facebook that York was arrested there because that’s where he was pulled over, not that the police were using one of the homes as part of their sting.
York had “in his possession his cellular device which was used to arrange the criminal act,” according to the court documents.
The documents show York was booked into county jail on two separate charges — one count of engaging in prostitution and one count of possessing criminal tools.
On Monday, however, York cut a plea deal with prosecutors, according to Columbiana County Municipal Court records.
York, who was initially released on $5,000 bond, pled no contest to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct as well as no contest to one count of possessing criminal tools, the records show.
He was sentenced to one day in jail, though he was given credit for time served. He was also ordered to pay $1,150 in fines.
