The Athens Banner-Herald reports that Max Roland Reinhart, 65, faces a charge of prostitution after agreeing to give the undercover officer 30 minutes of sexual service for $60. He also is charged with keeping a place of prostitution for renting a room at the Guest House Inn in Norcross, where he and the undercover officer met.
Gwinnett County police found Reinhart, a professor in UGA's Germanic and Slavic Studies department, through a website that regularly advertises escort services.
"Yesterday, detectives located in the transsexual escort section a subject named Sasha," Smith said.
After determining that 'Sasha' was working in their jurisdiction, an undercover officer met Sasha, who later was identified as Reinhart.
"He was dressed in a woman's fishnet body suit," he said.
Reinhart and the undercover officer came to an agreement to exchange 30 minutes of sexual service for $60.
"After they came to the agreement, that was enough for a charge," Smith said.
Reinhart was booked into jail, and was released on a $4,800 bond.
Reinhart studies German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and teaches classes on German music and literature. He holds the A.G. Steer Professorship in Goethe Studies. Reinhart started teaching at UGA in 1988 and has held tenure since 1994.
Reinhart reported his arrest to UGA's Office of Legal Affairs Friday afternoon under the terms of a mandatory university policy, said Tom Jackson, UGA's vice president for public affairs.
"We will take appropriate action," Jackson said. "I wouldn't want to presuppose anything about this particular case."
Jackson and other UGA officials found out about Reinhart's arrest after an Atlanta TV called the school Thursday.
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