Overview

• Authorities identified the suspect as Dr. Robert Zewe Jr., 50, of Erie, Pennsylvania.
• He faces charges of compelling prostitution, a third-degree felony, possession of criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony, and engaging in prostitution, a misdemeanor.
• Officials say he traveled to Ohio and agreed to pay for sex with a fictitious underage girl and her mother during an undercover sting.
• The Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force made the arrest under Ohio’s Organized Crime Investigations Commission, led by the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office.
• Court records list the East Palestine Police Department as the charging agency, and jail logs show he was booked and bonded out on Oct. 11.