Howard County police charged 10 people with soliciting prostitution in Jessup Oct. 16 following an undercover operation along Route 1, county police said this week.

During the operation, female officers in plain clothes stood near the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Cedar Avenue -- identified as a problem area by citizens -- to determine whether they would be approached and offered money for sex, police said.

Among those arrested were three Laurel residents, three Columbia residents, a Nottingham resident and a Jessup resident, according to police.

Also during the operation, police said, a man approached an undercover female officer, identified himself as a "pimp" and inquired about prostitution prices in the area. He left and returned with a woman and walked her to Route 1.

A male undercover officer made contact with the woman and she solicited him for prostitution, police said. The woman and the man who had come with her were both arrested. The woman was charged with one count of prostitution and the man with running a prostitution business, general prostitution and possession of marijuana, police said.

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