Massage Parlor Reports

This really sucks!!! I loved DT. I was just there 2 weeks ago and had "Happy". Does anyone know of any other FS locations? Not really into just the HR alone, but if there's no other places for FS i may have to settle.

Thanks for your help!

[QUOTE=Keloid]It is DT that is closed, and not for the usual. They didn't get closed for "illegal massage" and they didn't get busted by the providence le. It was immigration. They took out 2 yesterday and 3 this morning. I think they will be closed for a while.[/QUOTE]

That DT has closed. I just tried calling a few minutes ago and got a busy signal. Does anyone know of any other FS locations in the area? Not really into the HR places, but if thats all that's left, I guess I'll have to settle.

Thanks!

Catch channel 12 at 11pm tonight for the story.

Here's the whole thing from the Projo.

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Busted sex-slave ring includes Providence site

06:52 PM EDT on Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Associated Press and staff reports

NEW YORK -- Twenty brothels around the Northeast -- including one in downtown Providence -- posing as legitimate businesses were shut down and 31 people were arrested, freeing more than 70 sex workers enslaved by a large human-trafficking ring, officials said today.

The arrests Tuesday capped a 15-month probe that began when a Korean couple who owned and operated a chain of brothels in Queens tried to bribe an undercover New York Police Department detective, said Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Those arrested on federal charges including conspiracy to engage in human trafficking, prostitution and conspiracy to transport illegal aliens included brothel owners and managers, middlemen who worked as transporters and individuals who handled the money.

In addition to Rhode Island, arrests occurred in Washington, D.C., New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland and California. If convicted, those charged faced maximum sentences of five to 10 years.

At least one establishment in downtown Providence was involved, according to Thomas Connell, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Rhode Island.

Connell referred questions about its exact location and any arrests to the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York. The spokesman there was not immediately available.

Myers said the victims who were working in brothels throughout the Northeast were being interviewed by ICE agents at secret non-detention locations, where they were receiving health care, clothing, food and other services as they were being questioned.

She said it was disheartening to hear agents describe stories "of women who were promised a better life and instead held as sex slaves" at brothels posing as massage parlors, health spas and acupuncture clinics.

Yet, she said, she was encouraged to know "these same women had been rescued and freed from their shadowy existence and that we could help bring to justice those criminals who enslaved them."

Federal court papers show the government intercepted calls from the Bally Sauna and Ginja Spa in Stamford, the Crystal Spa and Liberty Spa in Norwalk and the Magic hair salon in Waterbury, all in Connecticut. In each case, someone at the business was ordering girls from the ring, according to the documents.

Myers said the Flushing, Queens, couple who touched off the probe paid at least $125,000 to the undercover detective as investigators tapped telephones and exposed an international scheme to smuggle women from Korea to the United States to work in brothels.

The couple was arrested in March along with two police officers who were discovered during the investigation to be accepting bribes, authorities said.

Myers said the United States was seeking to break the backs of the human trafficking rings by increasing the number of investigations of smugglers and traffickers and targeting the financial proceeds of the criminal organizations.

"Some of these criminals look upon people as cargo, just something that must be moved," she said. "But we know that the victims of trafficking and smuggling are not cargo. They are human beings who often have been mentally and physically broken down in every way possible to achieve a mental state in which they can no longer fight against their captors and try to escape."

She said it might take weeks to build enough trust with wary victims to get them to speak to investigators, and she acknowledged that some of the 70 suspected victims might turn out to have known the risks of the brothel trade and chose to work in it anyway.

U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said the smuggling organization relied on recruiters who went to Korea and found young women eager to live in the United States.

The recruiters then charged the women tens of thousands of dollars to provide false documentation to enter the country or to smuggle them in, he said.

Once in the United States, the women were placed in brothels along the eastern seaboard, unable to leave the business until their debt was paid, he said.

Identity and travel documents were seized from the women, threats were made that they would be turned over to authorities or that family members would be harmed in Korea if they tried to leave, Garcia said.

"Raids on these locations show that this exploitation is not a back alley business. It happens on Main Street in Stamford, Conn. It happens in residential neighborhoods of our nation's capitol and it happens in the West 20s in New York City, not far from here," Garcia said at a news conference at FBI headquarters in lower Manhattan.

He added: "Human traffickers profit by turning dreams into nightmares. These women sought a better life in America and found instead forced prostitution and misery."

-- With reports from projo.com staff writer Steve Peoples
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Super. What will the AG and INS do now? Hand them all green cards and $5k cash to start their lives anew?

I know that it's against the law, but I hate the hypocrisy they use to explain their busts to the public. Dont give me any of this "American dream" bs. They're not going to do sh*t for these women after they get out of jail.

Your absolutely right. It's of more importance that the authorities come out looking like hereos to the media than they do to the girls. Of course none of us have actually seen the conditions behind the scenes there so you can't say for sure, but in all the times I've been I've never seen one bruise, scrape or scratch on any of them, none of them ever looked malnourished, none of them ever stunk, and none of them seemed or acted like they were abused slaves as they and I were being "happily ended".

[QUOTE=Paul60]Super. What will the AG and INS do now? Hand them all green cards and $5k cash to start their lives anew?

I know that it's against the law, but I hate the hypocrisy they use to explain their busts to the public. Dont give me any of this "American dream" bs. They're not going to do sh*t for these women after they get out of jail.[/QUOTE]

Your absolutely right. It's of more importance that the authorities come out looking like hereos to the media than they do to the girls. Of course none of us have actually seen the conditions behind the scenes there so you can't say for sure, but in all the times I've been I've never seen one bruise, scrape or scratch on any of them, none of them ever looked malnourished, none of them ever stunk, and none of them seemed or acted like they were abused slaves as they and I were being "happily ended".

[QUOTE=Paul60]Super. What will the AG and INS do now? Hand them all green cards and $5k cash to start their lives anew?

I know that it's against the law, but I hate the hypocrisy they use to explain their busts to the public. Dont give me any of this "American dream" bs. They're not going to do sh*t for these women after they get out of jail.[/QUOTE]

From the channel 12 website

Providence business connected to sex-slave ring
Providence business connected to sex-slave ring









More than thirty people are arrested and dozens of enslaved workers are freed after a nationwide prostitution bust. And one of twenty brothels busted, right here in Rhode Island!

Kyong Polachek will be in Federal Court this morning, charged as the owner of the Brothel located in Providence.

According to this Federal document, cell phone conversations monitored by Federal Agents led to several arrests, and freed more than 70 sex slaves.

The suspects were arrested one by one and taken into custody.

Investigators tell us the victims were taken to the United States and promised better lives. But instead, were held as sex slaves in businesses posing as massage parlors and health spas.

One of the brothels was operating out of Providence on Custom House Street off Westminster, called Downtown Spa. It was also known as Downtown Acupressure.

The owner is Kyong Polachek, who also goes by the names Jennifer or Hanna. The 54-year-old is charged as a Brothel owner.

According to the indictment, owners would threaten the women, telling them if they tried to leave the business they would get hurt.

As the women left Korea, they were provided with false immigration documents. Some came right to the U.S. While others were transported to Canada or Mexico, and then quote, "smuggled into the United States."

Recruiters and Brothel owners would bill the women for everything, like documents and transportation. And by the time they were in the U.S., many of them owed tens of thousands of dollars to the suspects.


Other arrests were in Washington DC, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Maryland, and California.

If convicted, those charged, including Providence owner Kyong Polachek, could face five to ten years in prison.

I decided to give this place a try first time visiting a AMP ever. As I chickened out in picking up a girl on the AZ street (still to scared of police or getting scamed) for a college student paying. 60 at the door which was weird you had to push door which hit a bell but was stoped before it was opened and had to wait for a lady to open it. $. 20 FS opted out of table shower. Massage wasn't anything well compared to a real one done by a real massage was nothing. Kinda just layed there for a while a little doggy style and they the condom on with some nice mouth trick.

Would love to repeat but for $. 80 is a little pricy and a big chunk of change. Hopefully I will build up the nerve to pick up a girl.

I don't know where you were but you were not at Wanaskuck.
It seems like you are making up posts to make the members think you have done something. You know so little about the scene you are just making a fool of youself

[QUOTE=boris1069]I don't know where you were but you were not at Wanaskuck.
It seems like you are making up posts to make the members think you have done something. You know so little about the scene you are just making a fool of youself[/QUOTE]

Can Upchuck provide a NAME of the girl?

some girls are willing to have some extra fun for the cash

Here is the Washington DC post that has the actual US Attorneys filing on the busted AMPS

[url]http://www.usasexguide.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=30764[/url]

Jack

[QUOTE=Kenn Jack]Here is the Washington DC post that has the actual US Attorneys filing on the busted AMPS

[url]http://www.usasexguide.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=30764[/url]

Jack[/QUOTE]Kenn Jack, Thanks for the link. Interesting read.

I found today's Journal story to have a heaping of local flavor. Sums up the recent local history fairly well. Love the way she end's it.

btw, Were we aware that she got cleaned out on May 11th? Of this year?


[b][u]Federal sweep shutters city spa[/u]

A woman who federal officials say managed a busy downtown brothel faces charges in a multi-state investigation of a human-trafficking ring.

01:00 AM EDT on Friday, August 18, 2006

BY AMANDA MILKOVITS
Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE -- She claimed she was just a cook at the Down Town Spa, but a special agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said yesterday that he recognized the woman as the manager of one of the city's busy brothels.

The middle-aged Korean woman folded and refolded her hands, exposing her flame-red nails, as special agent Michael Conlon told U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge David L. Martin about meeting Kyong Polachek inside the fourth-floor massage parlor this spring.

Polachek is one of 31 people arrested this week in a major federal crackdown on a human-trafficking ring that supplied women for brothels posing as massage parlors and health spas throughout the Northeast. The U.S. Attorney's offices in Southern and Eastern Districts of New York are bringing charges against the defendants, including conspiracy to engage in human trafficking, engaging in interstate transportation of women for prostitution, transporting illegal aliens, and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business.

Twenty brothels were closed, and more than 70 sex workers were freed and are being questioned by federal authorities. Assistant U.S. Attorney Lee Vilker in Rhode Island said there were no sex slave-related charges here.

Polachek is the only person arrested in Rhode Island and the Down Town Spa (or Down Town Acupressure), at 1 Custom House St., is the only alleged brothel in this state shut down by the investigation. The federal affidavit also named a second spa in Rhode Island, called Central, where the sex workers were making $18,000 to $20,000 a month.

During a court hearing to determine her identity, the 54-year-old woman shook her head as Conlon described how he'd determined that her name was Kyong Polachek, also known as "Ji-Yeon Kim," "Jennifer," and "Hana," and that she was involved in the Down Town Spa.

She had given Conlon her name when he and another special agent went to the spa on May 11 on a tip that a woman was being held against her will. They arrested four women working there on immigration charges, Vilker said. The tip remains under investigation, Vilker said.

According to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Eastern District of New York, word of the arrests in Providence spread immediately to one of the middlemen in Queens, N.Y., who supplied women for the brothels. The middleman got a call from "Big Sister MaekDo," the owner of Down Town, the next day, asking for sex workers with valid visas to replace those who'd been arrested. She needed them "immediately, as her business was extremely busy," the affidavit said.

In March, according to the affidavit, Polachek had dealt with a middleman to find her a young pretty girl for a "fantasy" brothel that she had opened in Flushing, N.Y.

Martin ordered Polachek held without bail to face a charge of engaging in interstate transportation of women for the purposes of prostitution in federal court in the Eastern District of New York.

Yesterday, a sign taped to the front door of the building that houses the spa said: "Sorry! Down Town closed today. Please come back!"

Down Town has been raided by the police before, only to reopen. Its paper sign said as much about the fate of this spa as it does about other brothels masquerading as massage parlors in Rhode Island -- it's tough for law enforcement to shutter them permanently.

About a dozen massage parlors and "health spas" in Rhode Island advertise in the adult classified section of the Providence Phoenix and on adult Web sites. The police say the massages are perfunctory. The real business is sex.

And police say they have few options to stop them.

Prostitution isn't illegal in Rhode Island as long as it occurs indoors. Only streetwalkers -- and the men who solicit them -- can be arrested for prostitution, because of a 26-year-old loophole in state law.

Last year, the police and Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline tried to convince state legislators to criminalize all forms of prostitution. They were rejected. Some legislators and the Rhode Island Affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union said the police should go after the brothel owners, not the prostitutes.

The General Assembly did pass a law cracking down on licensed massage therapists by requiring them to undergo criminal background checks and fingerprinting, and closing licensed businesses with unlicensed employees.

But the law has no effect on brothels, because the ones calling themselves massage parlors aren't licensed, and the state doesn't require businesses to be licensed, said Providence police Lt. Thomas Verdi.

So, the police have arrested the alleged prostitutes and brothel managers on charges of giving a massage without a license.

But Superior Court Judge Daniel A. Procaccini ended that option in April, when he dismissed a charge against a woman managing the Midori Spa in Providence. The judge agreed the woman was managing a so-called massage facility and working without a license. But the judge disagreed on the definition and benefit of the massage, said a spokesman for the attorney general's office.

Since the woman wasn't trained to give a massage, it was just a body rub, said Providence police Maj. Stephen Campbell. And there is no law against that.

"It's a bit ironic that the more unprofessional the massage is, the more difficult it is to prove a case," said Michael J. Healey, spokesman for the attorney general's office.

Campbell and Verdi said they are trying other options. They've shut down brothels for housing and fire code violations. They've brought in a Korean interpreter and counselors from Family Services to offer help to the arrested prostitutes.

But the women ignore them and walk out, Campbell said, leaving in vehicles provided by the spas.[/b]

[QUOTE=boris1069]I don't know where you were but you were not at Wanaskuck.
It seems like you are making up posts to make the members think you have done something. You know so little about the scene you are just making a fool of youself[/QUOTE]


I have gotten a little extra at wankskunk myself, as always ymmv
with these places.

[QUOTE=Legend Man]I have gotten a little extra at wankskunk myself, as always ymmv with these places.[/QUOTE]Lucky you, I went several weeks ago and only got a handshake. I wasn't impressed with the facilities either. I hope Apple is still open, I preferred them to DT anyway.