On 28 Mar 2022, pothead <potheadbjoe@gmail.com> posted some
news:t1thnk$38pl9$1@news.freedyn.de:

> Typical lowlife Democrat run city.

"Sexual noises" pouring out of a San Diego massage parlor that disturbed
nearby church services helped launch a police sting operation that
uncovered a sex-for-pay operation in the SoCal city, police revealed last
week.

"The San Diego Police Department takes neighborhood complaints of this
nature very seriously," Police Chief Nisleit said in a press release last
week. "Our Vice Unit�s thorough investigation into the operation at
businesses just like Ocean Spa bring peace and civility back to San Diego
neighborhoods. We are grateful for the collaboration with the City
Attorney to eliminate this type of criminal conduct in our communities."

Police said they fielded numerous complaints from neighboring business
owners and residents of the Ocean Spa Massage Parlor, and soon launched an
operation at the location. Complaints ranged from "sexual noises"
disturbing a church service to locals spotting people having sex in cars,
according to police. A youth Bible study group was previously located next
to the parlor, according to CBS8.

"Neighboring businesses complained the site was the source of foot traffic
at odd hours, people having intercourse in parked cars and sexual noises
loud enough to disrupt a nearby church service. After receiving numerous
community complaints regarding illicit sexual activities at Ocean Spa,
including criminal, nuisance and lewd activities, SDPD�s Vice Unit began
an extensive and thorough investigation into these complaints," San Diego
police reported.

Police devoted more than 125 hours last year investigating the massage
parlor, which ultimately led to at least four instances where undercover
cops were offered sex by employees. Police additionally uncovered at least
1,270 online ads for sex at the parlor over the last five years.

Four people were arrested for prostitution, while the city is taking legal
action to shut the parlor down, including the City Attorney�s Office
seeking more than $100,000 in civil penalties and reimbursement for
attorney fees and law enforcement costs.

"The owners of Ocean Spa have been masquerading as a legitimate business
for far too long," City Attorney Mara Elliott said in the press release.
"Ocean Spa is a sex shop � not a massage parlor � and it has no place in
our community or anywhere else. We look forward to holding these
perpetrators accountable and to restoring peace in this complex."

San Diego and the surrounding areas have long struggled with prostitution
issues, though locals and other Californians argue a relatively new law
has exacerbated the problem.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 357 in July 2022, which
repealed a previous law that banned loitering with the intent to engage in
prostitution. The bill was championed as one that would help protect
transgender women from being targeted by police.

"The author brought forth this legislation because the crime of loitering
has disproportionately impacted Black and brown women and members of the
LGBTQ community," the governor said when signing the bill into law.

"It�s always been pretty common with massage parlors to offer more than
massages," the business owner said, "but with [SB] 357 the whole industry
is emboldened because they know nothing will happen."

Sex trafficking has also increased due to the law, the business owner
argued.

"Now that we�re starting the second year with SB 357 in place, the
prostitution has steadily increased, pimps know they can flood the streets
with more girls, and with the busiest boarder crossing here in San Diego,
sex trafficking is out of control."

Meanwhile, prostitutes are becoming more "aggressive," the business owner
said, pointing to how the women will go into businesses and yell at
employees.

"'I�ll call my pimp and he�ll come take care of this,'" the prostitutes
threaten business owners, according to the San Diego proprietor.

"Residents will try to park in the street parking stall where a prostitute
is standing, and she refuses to move and [curses] at the driver," the
business owner continued. "When a john has stopped in the middle of the
street to make a deal and backs up traffic, the cars behind will honk
their horn so the prostitute will walk over yelling and hit the car or
window."

Other areas of California have also reported repeated instances of
prostitutes walking the streets in skimpy outfits in broad daylight,
including in Oakland where pimps reportedly stationed prostitutes outside
a Catholic grade school last year, while a road in the heart of San
Francisco�s Mission District was lined with prostitutes and pimps last
winter.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/church-services-disturbed-rampant-san-diego-
prostitution-hits-fever-pitch