Tanning Salon Was Actually A Brothel - Had No Tanning Beds

[matcom]

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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- Undercover officers noticed something conspicuously absent from a tanning salon -- tanning beds.

The only tanning bed on the property of VIP Tann Spa was found in a wooden box on the porch, officer Jerry Miller said Thursday.

Miller said the so-called tanning salon was actually a very different kind of business: Three employees and two customers were charged with prostitution and related charges after the undercover visit last month.

The undercover officer found makeshift beds and other evidence people were being paid for sex, Miller said.

Investigators took business receipts, credit card statements and cash before closing the salon. The County Council revoked the owner's business license.

http://www.wftv.com/news/5355272/detail.html

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Tsk.

You'd think they'd have figured out that a "massage parlor" is the best front for prostitution.

[underpants]

2. Ages 44 34 and 43 were arrested

Employees Chun Young Lee, 44, from California; Eun Ju Kwak, 34; and Jong Soon Back, 43, both of Queens, N.Y.; were arrested and charged with prostitution

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/13199101.htm

[Hugin]

3. I've got this terrible sunburn on my back...

Can't imagine how I only got burned on one side.

Hmmm....

[Mutley]

4. Idiots. All they needed was one working tanning bed

and they'd still be in business. :eyes: Some people really should not be criminals.

[Skelington]

5. It took our brillant police years to figure out

that "lotion demonstators" at the massage parlors were actually hookers.

[StaggerLee]

7. We have an art studio on town

Where you pay to pose and manipulate female models. Methinks it's actually a brothel.

Only one way to really find out...

[KG]

6. i still dont understand why pr0stitution is illegal

[jmowreader]

8. It's a guaranteed moneymaker for the government

And in far larger sums than a mere tax would be.

People are gonna fuck. Some people are going to hire partners. The cops know this.

The cops also know where all the prostitutes are.

If the government needs a little extra scratch this weekend, no problem: go bust a hooker. They can keep all the money in the prostitute's possession because it's "ill-gotten gains." They can fine her more money. There's "court costs." Lawyers have to be called in. And if you want to really make some dough, just bust a few johns too.

Oh yeah..."you know, missy, there IS a way you can get out of all this and it won't cost you a dime..."

Such a truly fine moneymaking scheme would just disappear if prostitution was legal.

[Loonman]

9. Why can I never find these places!!!!

I only hear about them when they get busted!

[swag]

12. I commend NE 82nd Ave, Portland, OR unto thee.

[bleedingheart]

10. same thing happened here in PA...

24 hour Day Spas....yeah right...

any real spa doesn't offer 24 hour service...

They waited over 6 months to arrest them but when the figured out what was going on....they shut down 4 of these spas...

[XemaSab]

11. It's in Horry County...

What do they expect? :shrug: