Hey, Bridgeport cops have become almost as familiar with city massage parlors as the suburban johns who patronize them. Community activists have urged police to keep the heat up on these unlicensed establishments that sometimes serve as fronts for crime and grime. News release from Bridgeport Police spokesman Bill Kaempffer:
Another sweep of the city massage parlors revealed four more had illegally re-opened–two for the second time–after being closed down last month.
Members of the Narcotics and Vice squad on Saturday visited 10 locations closed down in December. The businesses were ordered shut under a state law requiring massage parlors to be licensed and all masseuses acquire state licenses. The parlors are believed to be fronts for prostitution.
The inspections showed four had re-opened and continued to operate without the needed documents. Officers went in undercover posing as customers and inquired about a massage. When they were quoted a price, other officers entered and requested to see the required licensing. No one could provide any.
Seven women were arrested and the four businesses closed down again.
The four that reopened were Chate’au, 2662 Fairfield Ave.; Silver Spa, 2742 Fairfield Ave.; Oriental Health Spa, 2336 Main St., and Kay’s Hong Kong, 604 North Ave.
The women were booked and held on $1,000 bonds.
Arrested were: Kisook Kimm, 46, of New Jersey; Aesu Lee-Mundy, 51, of Kentucky; Misung Lee, 59, of New Jersey; Young Stone, 52, of New York; Chang Anderson, 67, of New York; Kumyop Dunford-Harris, 63, of Bridgeport, and Chun Lee Hwang, 49, of Bridgeport.
The city police, heath and fire departments will continue to collaborate on the issue.
These places are great tourist attractions. yahooy loves them.
Hmmm, that may explain why this is his favorite clip from his favorite movie:
www .youtube.com/watch?v=JEEWE7gcPw0
Congrats to Mary-Jane Foster, Bob Walsh and company! Persistence pays off!!!
*** These 55+ cougar parlors that extend a 15% discount to seniors with an AARP membership card will be having an all you can eat “won ton” soup, “egg rolls” and “green tea,” etc. at half time during the “Super Bowl” this Feb. 3rd. Also free tye-dye tee-shirts and chopsticks to the first 13 customers that day wearing “Hockey” jerseys! *** HERE WE GO! ***
The BPD needs to stop playing this pussy(cat) and mouse game and stop pretending as if there isn’t much they can do. “The city police, health and fire departments will continue to collaborate on the issue.” Are you kidding me? Health and fire are playing the game too?
How would Speedy run them out of town? The BPD strategy here is very “familiar” to those running such operations. To start with, the $1,000 bond mentioned above is actually $100 or less–a Bail Bondsmen charges 7% to 10% of the bond. Grogins did a poor job writing the Massage Parlor legislation to the point she is now working on patching the holes she missed. There is really very little need for playing the pussycat and mouse game being played by all those involved–police, legislators, activists, fire and health officials.
The next time the police arrest the ladies or the parlors, don’t just close the joint for the night, leave it open! But who’s going to take care of the customers, Joel, you ask? I was going to suggest the BPD hires Godiva2011 to pose as a worker, but the clients would just run away screaming and the plan wouldn’t work. The BPD has some good-looking female officers who could pose as massage parlor workers and flip the table on the johns and prostitutes simultaneously. This tactic puts a double dent on this type of business–the johns would then have to be more cautious as they would have to worry about the hookers actually being cops or the cops raiding the joint in the middle of the act, or should I say massage.
In Black Rock all the whorehouses masquerading as massage parlors are closed. The landlords for them have all made disingenuous statements to the effect “I didn’t know what kind of business it is.” There must be some way to legally penalize the greedy bastards who rent to these businesses.