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Three accused of massage-parlor prostitution in Covington
November 13, 2009, 4:35PM
Covington Police arrested three women for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of a massage parlor on U.S. 190.
Police had been monitoring and running undercover operations at Sunshine Therapy Covington Police DepartmentDeng XiaohuanMassage Parlor, in the shopping center at 2600 U.S. 190, for about a month after receiving a tip that prostitution was occurring at the business, Covington Police Chief Richard Palmisano said.
That sting ended Thursday night with the arrest of the parlor’s owner, 45-year-old Deng Xiaohuan, and two employees, 43-year-old Li “Wendy” Xiuzhi and 52-year-old Xin Hua “Lucy” Xiong.
The undercover operation targeting the parlor turned up evidence of prostitution, though police are still trying to unravel the details of the prostitution ring, Palmisano said.

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Northshore prostitution busts
The Covington Police Department says a month long uncover operation led to the arrest of three women from California. In a press release, a police spokesman says a tip to Covington Police Chief Richard Palmisano led to the investigation of “Sunshine Therapy Massage Parlor” on Highway 190 …Read More

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The Covington Police Department says a month long uncover operation led to the arrest of three women from California.
In a press release, a police spokesman says a tip to Covington Police Chief Richard Palmisano led to the investigation of “Sunshine Therapy Massage Parlor” on Highway 190.
Undercover agents who went to the business say they were solicited for sex during their massages.
Police say 45-year-old Deng Xiaohuan owned the business and rented out rooms to two women who took turns “servicing” their customers.
According to the spokesman, the two women who were actively engaged in the illegal acts used nicknames like “Wendy” and “Lucy” to make it easier for their customers to remember them.
Investigators say all three women reside at the same address on Hwy 25.
According to the press release, investigators are in the process of translating the businesss records which written in Chinese.

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VB: As an aside, I’m curious: how do you think this all relates to the client fairytale-fantasy of having their sex worker fall in love with them and “leave the life for true love”?
DHS: “Sir Save-A-Ho,” is one variation on that theme. It’s a story in the book by a very gifted writer and filmmaker, Juliana Piccillo, about this very subject. In it, a vice cop kind of tries to save her when she’s a 17-year-old massage parlor girl. But yes, those Julia Roberts/Richard Gere/Pretty Woman fairy tales are so powerful. If anything, I’m afraid this book might make clients realize how profoundly these industrial sex technicians just want to get P-A-I-D. As my employment counselor/pimp used to say to me, the three most important rules of the world of sex for money are: 1) Get the money up front; 2) Get The Money Up Front!; and 3) GET THE MONEY UP FRONT!!!

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A group of neighbors spoke against the plan, and dozens submitted statements against the rezoning directly to the planning board or through the Bissonet Civic Association.
“Rezoning this property will only reduce the appearance and property values of this neighborhood,” said George McLean, speaking as a board member of the civic group.
Fran King, who tracks zoning issues for the Bissonet association, said the spread of commercial operations would mar recent work to beautify Kawanee with new sidewalks and trees.
“It would be like a tumbleweed effect; one house would go, then another house would go,” King said after the planning meeting. “It would be David Drive on Kawanee. David Drive is really tacky.”
King said she feared the specter of a tattoo shop, massage parlor or bar opening on the corner.

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