CHARGES DROPPED
After an appeals court ruled in his favor and Florida’s attorney general said she wouldn’t take an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court, misdemeanor prostitution solicitation charges against Robert Kraft, the part-time Palm Beach resident and full-time New England Patriots owner, were dropped Thursday, according to court documents. Kraft, along with dozens of others across Palm Beach and several Treasure Coast (Florida) counties, was arrested on the misdemeanor charges in 2019 after several law-enforcement agencies, including Jupiter police, secretly installed hidden cameras inside several massage parlors in an attempt to uncover an alleged prostitution ring. How the detectives obtained the video showing the alleged crimes, through a controversial means known as “sneakand-peek” warrants, is what eventually brought the case to its end.