Undercover detectives entered massage parlors before raids, paperwork shows - WAVY-TV

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CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – Court documents show undercover detectives entered six businesses for massages before police and federal agents executed search warrants at the locations.

The raids happened at the businesses on Jan. 15, following a year-long investigation and hours of surveillance. Officers arrested 14 women.

Photos: 14 women arrested in massage parlor raids


According to court paperwork, a citizen told investigators that a woman working at one of the businesses reached toward his “erogenous zone.” The documents state on the day before and the day of the raids, five undercover detectives entered the six businesses for 30-minute massages. The paperwork shows the masseuse touched the detectives inappropriately or exposed inappropriate areas.

Police would not discuss these cases, but said that kind of interaction establishes probable cause, and that detectives stop the activity, and either immediately arrest the workers or do so later. Investigators only saw male clients entering and exiting the businesses and workers were not leaving after hours, indicating they may have been sleeping there, court paperwork said.

Chesapeake City Councilman Robert Ike said a church pastor and a planning commission member approached him about strengthening city ordinances last year.

“We all met with the city attorney and the police chief, and we crafted some improvements to the city code, which would make it a little more easy to prosecute and to prevent this type of activity in our city…As a former police officer, here in Chesapeake, I can’t really say that I’m surprised that there’s illegal activity going on in our city. I am kind of surprised that was going on, basically under everybody’s nose. I’m glad we’re ferreting it out and getting it out of Chesapeake,” Ike said.

Court documents show the massage parlors were listed on online databases that rate places that are alleged to perform sexual activity as part of the massage.

There is no evidence at this time that the massage parlors are related or that they are part of a ring.

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