Hot Dog Hooker Rearrested for Prostitution

By Timothy Bolger Posted on May 25, 2013

The woman who became known as the infamous “hot dog hooker” after she pleaded guilty to prostitution out of her hot dog truck last year has been arrested again on Friday evening.

Catherina Scalia arrived at a hotel in East Garden City in her hot dog vending truck, performed massage without a license on an undercover detective shortly after 5 p.m. and “offered to engage in a sexual act for an undetermined amount of money,” Nassau County police said in a news release.

Narcotics/Vice Squad detectives charged the 47-year-old East Rockaway woman with prostitution and unauthorized practice.

She will be arraigned Saturday at First District Court in Hempstead.

About the Author

Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.