David Cress

Hospital CEO Suspended After Prostitution Bust

Updated: Thursday, 02 Sep 2010, 10:33 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 02 Sep 2010, 6:34 PM CDT

ROBBINSDALE, Minn - North Memorial Medical Center has suspended CEO David Cress indefinitely a day after he was caught in a prostitution bust.

On Wednesday, police arrested Cress in Richfield, Minn. along with 13 other people in the sting.

Cress, 60, was taken into police custody at 77th and Lyndale Avenues.

Sources told FOX 9 undercover investigators reeled the men in with an online ad. When the men showed up for sex, officers made the arrests.

Richfield police refused to comment on the ongoing investigation.

Cress posted bail of $300 late Wednesday afternoon.

The North Memorial Board of Trustees announced that Loren ’Larry’ Taylor, current North Memorial Chairman of the Board, has been named interim CEO of North Memorial, effective immediately.

Taylor was appointed to the North Memorial Board of Trustees in 1997 and has served as Chairman of the Board since 2000.

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