Eight people face charges in connection with a prostitution sting Friday in Hanover Township, Northampton County, conducted by the Colonial Regional Police Department, according to police news release.



Authorities charged four men with patronizing prostitutes and cited a woman for prostitution and charged her husband with promoting the crime, police say. Two other others face drug-related charges from the sting operation, which was conducted 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday at the Best Western, 300 Gateway Drive, according to court records. Police said the hotel was cooperating with their investigation.



Alan V. Dilsaver, 56, of the 300 block of Hillview Drive in Lower Nazareth Township; Sal Basile, 43, of the 4700 block of Kathi Drive in Hanover Township, Northampton County; Rikin Patel, 26, of the 4100 block of Main Street in Whitehall Township; and Mohamed Asaf, 18, of the 600 block of North Fifth Street in Allentown, answered an ad placed on the Internet for prostitution services, police say. The men allegedly offered an undercover sheriff's deputy money for sexual acts as part of the sting operation.



Dilsaver, Basile, Patel and Asaf were charged with patronizing prostitution, police report.



Karen Landau, 34, of Barto, Pa., was charged with prostitution after offering to perform sex acts for money on an undercover police officer, authorities say. Landau's husband George Landau, 38, also faces charges of promoting prostitution as he allegedly acted as his wife's driver and bodyguard.



Thad Louis Starner, 39, and Monique Damaro, 34, both of the 100 block of South Whitfield Street in Nazareth, each faces delivery, possession and possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance, police say. Starner and Damaro allegedly sold methamphetamine to an undercover officers for $50. Police say Damaro also had loaded syringes and Zanax pills in her possession.



Police say prostitution-related charges are pending against Starner and Damaro.



Starner and Damaro were arraigned before District Judge Jacqueline Taschner and sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail.



Bail and arraignment information for the other suspects was not immediately available.



