Police: City Official Charged With Soliciting Prostitution

Kettering police arrested three people Monday night after getting tips on prostitution and one of them arrested was a city of Moraine employee, police said.

Stephen French, 38, Moraine’s clerk of council, was arrested when Kettering police raided an apartment complex on Westcliff Court near South Dixie and Dorothy Lane in Kettering.

French is charged with soliciting prostitution and having a gun while intoxicated, police said.

Police said two women in the complex were soliciting for massages on Craigslist Web site. There was reason to suspect more than that was going on, police said.

Police arrested 44-year-old Michelle Zengel and 25-year-old Jessica McCabe.

Moraine’s city manager did not make a comment Tuesday evening on the arrest of the city’s clerk of council.