PLEASANTON

Man may have solicited girl to porn

A 34-year-old man handing out business cards at the Alameda County Fair, reportedly to solicit women into the porn industry, was arrested by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies after allegedly making his pitch to a teenage girl over the weekend.

Deputies arrested Aaron Gimbert, of Pleasanton, on Sunday afternoon on suspicion of trying to use misrepresentation to solicit a person into a life of prostitution, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said. They arrested him around 3:30 p.m.

Undercover deputies from the agency’s sexual assault unit watched Gimbert hand out a business card with the words “Big Pimpin Inc.,” and images of at least two topless women.

Nelson said the Sheriff’s Office learned that Gimbert distributed a card to at least one teenage girl on Saturday, then observed him do the same on Sunday.

Gimbert was taken to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin where he was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail. He is due to be arraigned in court Tuesday afternoon.

–Rick Hurd, Staff