ORLANDO, Fla. -- Three Orlando Weekly advertising managers were arrested on charges of aiding and abetting prostitution in connection with an investigation into adult ads allegedly linked to illegal escort services.

Brian Martin, 43, the classified director for the newspaper; Katherine Miller, 27, an account executive; and Matthew Whiting, 37, an account executive, were arrested during a job fair Friday at the downtown Orlando Marriott Hotel by Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation officers.

Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation Cmdr. Paul Zambouros said the Weekly has been "sort of a broker to prostitutes," Local 6's Mike Holfeld reported.

Undercover agents have arrested more than 70 call girls all with ads in the Orlando Weekly adult section.

Local 6 has learned that adult escort ads have netted the paper $900,000 during the last five years.

"There are numerous advertisements for massage parlors and escorts and we have made numerous arrests for prostitution from the people from the advertisements," Zambouros said.

In June, Zambouros wrote the Orlando Weekly's parent company Chief Don Farley asking him to pull the ads saying, "The adult services section is clearly being used by prostitutions services."

"The publisher told me that the only reason why we were making these demands is because the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation did not like the press that the Orlando Weekly was giving us, which is absolutely not the case," Zambouros said. "If the Orlando Weekly would have done away with their adult services section, we wouldn't being having the conversation."

The MBI subpoenaed records from the Orlando Weekly earlier this year.

The arrests follow a two-year undercover investigation dubbed "Operation Weekly Shame."

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