‘Hot dog hooker’ sentenced

East Rockaway resident Catherina Scalia, 45, who was arrested last month and charged with selling more than just hot dogs from her mobile unit on the Baldwin/Freeport border, was sentenced on Monday to a week in jail. She had already served five days, and was not sent back to jail after her court date. She walked out of the courthouse wearing a cover-up over her popular and revealingly loose bikini top.

Scalia was charged with offering to engage in a sexual act with an undercover detective at her Maxwell Street residence in exchange for money, police said. She pleaded not guilty at the time.

The arrest of Scalia, a reported mother of four, followed an investigation by detectives from the Narcotic Vice Squad, police said. The detectives became aware that Scalia was using a hot dog vending truck, on Sunrise Highway in Baldwin, to solicit customers for sex, Detective Kevin Smith said. She displayed cards with images of women strippers, Smith explained, and told interested customers to meet her at her home, where they paid her to perform sexual acts.