Ripoff Reports

[AverageDude91]

Bait and switch girls upfromt and in back. Ad on BP misleading. No skirts, no fun. Avoid!

[Beardpapa]

Bastards!

Poor Crystal.

She was a superior manager, and her girls were all quality.

So Crystal was involved? Makes me really wonder if it's really some jealous competitor that tipped off considering its highly possible with all the drama between girls over at HX.

[Gator88]

What a shame. Always enjoyed her girls and her professionalism in dealing with clients. What a waste of tax dollars by the Cops.

[Tzx131]

Bastards!

Poor Crystal.

She was a superior manager, and her girls were all quality.

[B Malibu]

That seems exhorbitant, but then we must remember that they wasted (spent in a worthy cause?) two years of LE vice investigators' work and taxpayer dollars to bring charges against an operation that almost noone knew anything about except the people who patronized it and the providers working there. Some threat to law and order that operation was, LOL.

I am wondering if the "anonymous" tip that touched off this investigation wasn't from a jealous competitor that was losing business.,

Hell yeah that's exorbitant. Political police work just pains me. Unfortunately, it probably will never change in our lifetime, so I guess all we can do is comment when the fuzz decides to spend our 20-40% cracking down on what they perceive as a "menace to society." Hmmm...what's the state of California's budget deficit nowadays?

[Marlowe]

How about that unreasonable and simply outrageous 2 Million dollar bail?!?!?!

That seems exhorbitant, but then we must remember that they wasted (spent in a worthy cause?) two years of LE vice investigators' work and taxpayer dollars to bring charges against an operation that almost noone knew anything about except the people who patronized it and the providers working there. Some threat to law and order that operation was, LOL.

I am wondering if the "anonymous" tip that touched off this investigation wasn't from a jealous competitor that was losing business.,

[B Malibu]

Great, now send them the bill! Seriously, determine the total cost of this two year investigation, then divvy up the cost between Robert Schuller and the Crystal Cathedral gang, the Mormons, and any other group that purports to represent the moral minority in this country. Then let's carry this one step further and privatize the LE vice squads in every city and town. If the Governor can champion privatizing the prison system, why not the vice squads as well.

Why should the taxpayers of California have to pay for the costs of this investigation? Whom did it benefit? This was taking place in a private gated complex and was sufficiently low key that none of the other residents was complaining about its presence. The article itself states that the women involved were not victims of coercion, but were workers there because of their own choice.

Nobody should have to pay for this except the moral minority and the institutions that represent them.

How about that unreasonable and simply outrageous 2 Million dollar bail?!?!?!

[Marlowe]

Great, now send them the bill! Seriously, determine the total cost of this two year investigation, then divvy up the cost between Robert Schuller and the Crystal Cathedral gang, the Mormons, and any other group that purports to represent the moral minority in this country. Then let's carry this one step further and privatize the LE vice squads in every city and town. If the Governor can champion privatizing the prison system, why not the vice squads as well.

Why should the taxpayers of California have to pay for the costs of this investigation? Whom did it benefit? This was taking place in a private gated complex and was sufficiently low key that none of the other residents was complaining about its presence. The article itself states that the women involved were not victims of coercion, but were workers there because of their own choice.

Nobody should have to pay for this except the moral minority and the institutions that represent them.

[Mphelper909]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...wed+Stories%29


A husband and wife have been arrested and charged with operating a high-end prostitution ring out of two upscale apartment complexes in Pasadena and Irvine, authorities said Wednesday.

Thanh Ly, 35, and Li Chen, 32, are accused of managing two dozen women, who charged clients $200 per encounter in the discreet residential buildings, said Lt. Tom Pederson of the Pasadena Police Department, which worked with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the case.

The couple, who were arrested Dec. 16 after a two-year investigation, are being held in lieu of $2-million bail pending a preliminary hearing on charges of pimping and pandering, Pederson said. Four women whose names were not immediately released were also arrested for alleged prostitution.

"These four ladies are U.S. citizens, between the ages of 20 and 45," Pederson said.

Police also confiscated $10,000 in cash, several expensive cars and jewelry worth about $20,000.

Authorities launched their investigation in 2007 based on an anonymous tip.

Investigators took their time exposing the alleged prostitution ring because of initial suspicions about human trafficking, Pederson said. But the women involved were apparently drawn to the business by the relatively high pay, not coercion, police said.

Potential clients learned about the business mostly by word of mouth and had to have been referred by existing customers, police said. An intermediary would then set up an appointment inside the gated residences.

One of the apartment complexes where Ly and Chen ran their operation was on a popular stretch of Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena.

Part of the attraction of the upscale apartment complex is that "you need a code to get in. It's a secure area, not a place where you'd be looking for such things to take place," Pederson said. "There is no reason for anyone to believe anything is wrong."

At the time the investigation began, the ringleaders were allegedly renting two units each in two complexes in Pasadena. But when management in one of the buildings became suspicious, the suspects moved their operation, authorities said.

The women were shuttled between the Pasadena building and another stylish residential complex in Irvine, police said.

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