By David Lohr
December 27, 2007
MIAMI, FL (Crime Library) — Police have arrested a Miami-Dade real estate agent for posting fake escort ads to an Internet classified website that included the personal contact information of a rival agent.
According to police, the incidents began last summer, when 44-year-old Debbie Blasberg, a local real estate agent and married mother of two, reported that she was receiving hundreds of unsolicited phone calls and text messages from strangers inquiring about sex. One of the callers had confessed that he found her number in an escort ad at Craigslist.org, an online classifieds website that hosts ads from 450 cities worldwide.
"Are you looking for a little afternoon delight? Stop by me and you'll leave with a smile," the headline read. It also included service fees, Debbie's personal cell phone number, and stated she was operating "in or around Miami downtown."
Debbie hired attorney Leah Mayersohn and private detective Robert Crispin to investigate the origin of the ads. Crispin discovered the ads were placed from a phony Yahoo account that had been created in Debbie's name. Mayersohn then contacted Craigslist and had the ads removed from the site, but in each instance they would reappear days later.
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Suspicion soon fell on fellow realtor Dean Isenberg, 42. According to Debbie, Isenberg was upset with her because she had closed a deal on a property he was trying to sell, causing him to lose the sale and commission.
Investigators soon learned that 26 of the ads resolved back to Isenberg's personal computers. Using this information, police raided Isenberg's home and seized four computer towers, two laptops and three BlackBerrys.
When forensic investigators searched Isenberg's computer hard drives, they allegedly found evidence connecting him to the ads, along with several photos of scantily clad women, which he purportedly used in the ads.
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