MASSAGE PARLOR STING LEADS TO ARREST OF FIVE.Byline: Lisa Van Proyen Daily News Staff Writer Three employees and two customers of the New Image Professional Health Club were arrested Thursday night in a sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) where officers said more than just massages were being solicited. One female employee was arrested on suspicion of prostitution prostitution, act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males. , and two other female employees were arrested on suspicion of ``keeping a disorderly house'' - in essence, running an illegal business, said Sgt. Dan Mastro of the LAPD's West Valley Division. Detectives from the division's vice unit in conjunction with detectives from downtown's organized crime and the administrative vice divisions first went undercover as customers at the health club in the 21000 block of Sherman Way, Mastro said. The workers were arrested and then detectives did a ``reverse sting'' operation by posing as employees and arresting customers who paid for a massage and then asked for a sexual act for money, Mastro said. The employee arrested on suspicion of prostitution was identified as Sook Kim. Soon Russell and Sun Lim were arrested on suspicion of ``keeping a disorderly house A place where individuals reside or which they frequent for purposes that pose a threat to public health, morals, convenience, or safety, and that may create a public Nuisance. .'' The customers were identified as Christos Skianis, 36, and Farhad Toutouni, 24. Both were booked on suspicion of solicitation solicitation In criminal law, the act of asking, inducing, or directing someone to commit a crime. The person soliciting another becomes an accomplice to the crime. The term also refers to the act of obtaining bribes, as well as to the crime of a prostitute who offers sexual for prostitution and released on their own recognizance own recognizance (O.R.) n. the basis for a judge allowing a person accused of a crime to be free while awaiting trial, without posting bail, on the defendant's own promise to appear and his/her reputation. , Mastro said. |
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