“Sexual noise” emanating from a San Diego massage parlor disrupted a nearby church service, prompting a police sting that uncovered paid sex operations in the Southern California city, police said last week.
“The San Diego Police Department takes these types of neighborhood complaints very seriously,” Police Chief Nisreit said in a press release last week. “Our deputy’s thorough investigations into the operations of businesses like Ocean Spa have restored peace and civility to the San Diego area. We are committed to eliminating this type of criminal activity in our community. We appreciate the cooperation with the City Attorney.”
Police said they responded to numerous complaints from nearby business owners and residents of Ocean Spa Massage Parlor and immediately launched an operation at the location. Police said complaints ranged from “sexual noise” disrupting church services to local residents witnessing people having sex in cars. According to CBS8, a youth Bible study group was previously located next to the reception room.
“Nearby businesses have reported that this location experiences foot traffic at odd hours, people having sex in parked cars, and sexual noises loud enough to disrupt services at a nearby church. After receiving numerous complaints from local residents about illegal sexual activity, including criminal activity, at Ocean Spa, the SDPD Vice “We have begun an extensive and thorough investigation into the complaint,” San Diego Police Department reported.
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Outside the Ocean Spa Massage Parlor, which operated within a commercial complex in San Diego. (Google Maps)
Police spent more than 125 hours investigating the massage parlor last year, resulting in at least four incidents in which undercover officers were approached for sex by employees. Police also found at least 1,270 online advertisements from him for sex in parlors over the past five years.
Four people have been arrested on prostitution charges, and the city is taking legal action to shut down the parlors, including the City Attorney’s Office seeking more than $100,000 in civil fines and reimbursement of attorney’s fees and law enforcement costs. ing.
“For too long, the owners of Ocean Spa have masqueraded as a legitimate business,” City Attorney Mara Elliott said in a press release. “Ocean Spa is a sex shop, not a massage parlor, and has no place in our community or anywhere else. We will hold the perpetrators accountable and restore peace to this complex. looking forward to it.”
One business owner says San Diego’s prostitution problem has increased since California’s controversial SB 357 started making headlines. (Fox News Digital)
San Diego and the surrounding area have long had a prostitution problem, but locals and other Californians say the relatively new law has made the problem worse.
California Governor Gavin Newsom Senate Bill 357 was signed into law in July 2022, repealing the previous law prohibiting loitering for the purpose of prostitution. The bill was championed as a bill that would help protect transgender women from being targeted by police.
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“I introduced this bill because the crime of loitering disproportionately impacts Black and brown women and members of the LGBTQ community,” the governor said when signing the bill.
Notably, the reparations package does not include any legislation proposing cash payments to African-American descendants in the state, although California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom also announced his support for the idea last year. refused. (California Governor Gavin Newsom YouTube Channel)
“To be clear, this bill does not legalize prostitution; it simply revokes provisions in the law that have led to the unjustified harassment of women and transgender adults. As we sign this bill, we must be cautious.”My administration will monitor crime and prosecution trends for potential unintended consequences and I intend to take action to alleviate this. ”
The law took effect last January, but business owners and local leaders say it has little impact on prostitutes and prostitutes roaming the streets looking for prostitutes.
A local San Diego business owner who spoke to Fox News Digital on condition of anonymity in the wake of the massage parlor raids said massage parlors that offered prostitution or sex “have always been pretty common,” but SB 357 is designed to protect people from pimps and prostitutes. He said he was encouraged. The management is not located very close to a massage parlor, but about 20 minutes from where prostitutes openly walk the streets in skimpy clothes looking for prostitutes.
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A woman stands on a San Diego street wearing high heels and revealing clothing. (Fox News Digital)
“It has always been common for massage parlors to offer more than massages,” the proprietor said. [SB] 357 The whole industry is encouraged because we know nothing is going to happen. ”
Business owners claimed that sex trafficking was also on the rise because of the law.
“As we enter the second year of SB 357’s implementation, prostitution is steadily increasing, and prostitutes know they can flood the city with more girls, crossing the busiest border crossing here in San Diego. As a result, sex trafficking is spiraling out of control.” ”
San Diego’s prostitution problem has been on the rise since California’s controversial SB 357 began making headlines. (Fox News Digital)
Meanwhile, the prostitutes are becoming more “aggressive,” the owner said, noting women entering stores and yelling at employees.
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According to a San Diego business owner, the prostitutes are “threatening him, saying, ‘Call your pimp and he’ll take care of this for you.'”
“Residents try to park in the street parking lot where the prostitute is standing, but the prostitute refuses to move. [curses] “If a prostitute stops in the middle of the road to make a deal and tries to back her car up, the cars behind her will honk their horns, and the prostitute will walk up screaming and hit the car,” the business owner continued. Ta. window. “
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There have been repeated reports of prostitutes walking the streets in revealing clothing in broad daylight in other parts of California. These include last year in Oakland, where prostitutes were reportedly stationed outside a Catholic elementary school, and in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, where streets were paved over. Last winter, with prostitutes and pimps.
