Undercover stings target San Mateo day laborers - California (However, this title is misleading for it doesn’t mention the fact that this tactic was found to be entrapment by a jury)

“City police targeting day laborers have made 183 arrests in the past two years, according to documents provided by City Attorney Shawn Mason, and the vast majority have been made by plainclothes police posing as potential employers.

Most of the workers who get busted in a sting plead guilty to the lesser charge of jay-walking, winding up with a fine worth $200. Some, on the other hand, fail to appear in court.

But last month, for the first time, one of the workers challenged the misdemeanor charge, prompting a jury trial. A jury took just 10 minutes to find Sofonias Lopez Ramirez not guilty, ruling he had been entrapped by arresting officers.”

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