VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A prostitution crackdown in Visalia has forced the closure of seven massage parlors in the city, the police department announced Thursday. Officers say the two-month investigation was to verify their legal operations. Nine locations were investigated, and seven of them were found to be taking part in activities related to prostitution, […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — At the Just Divine massage parlor north of Grand Rapids, an all-male clientele were assessed a door fee of either $50 or $80, with “tips encouraged for the service providers,” court records show. Metro Grand Rapids massage parlor owner faces prostitution charges But it wasn’t just back rubs being offered […]
Grace Kelley, the 27-year-old daughter of country singer Wynonna Judd and her businessman ex-husband, Arch Kelley III, has been charged with soliciting prostitution, indecent exposure and obstructing government operations after an April 5 arrest in Elmore County, Ala., sheriff’s records confirm. Kelley was arrested in Millbrook, Ala., after holding a sign that read “A Ride […]
Wynonna Judd’s troubled daughter, Grace Kelley, was slapped with soliciting prostitution and obstructing governmental operations charges in addition to the indecent exposure rap she was arrested on last week, according to updated jail records. Kelley, 27, was taken into custody last week in Elmore County, Alabama, after “officers noted that the individual was dressed inappropriately, […]
A Houston-area high school teacher is accused of helping her adult son by recruiting female students for prostitution, police say. Kedria Grigsby, 42, and her son Roger Magee, 22, are charged with felony sex trafficking and compelling prostitution, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday in a Facebook post. Grigsby also is charged with three […]
On Nov. 19, 2023, Brittany Abosede engaged in what police charged was an act of prostitution. Abosede, 34, went to a room at the Days Inn on Route 30 where she met a 66-year-old Harrisburg man named David Butts, who allegedly agreed to pay her $300 to urinate on him. She completed the act and […]
A teacher was arrested on child sex trafficking and prostitution-related charges involving students, Texas authorities say. Kedria Grigsby, 42, faces three counts each of trafficking of children and compelling prostitution along with her son, 21-year-old Roger Magee, who was previously arrested, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. The compelling prostitution charge is defined as when […]
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – Six men were arrested as part of a human trafficking operation in Cumberland County. The Cumberland County District Attorney’s office says on March 28 the county’s Human Trafficking Task Force conducted Operation Demand VII with the Silver Spring Police Department, State Police, and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Close Thanks […]
PLANO, Texas – A Plano massage parlor is now closed, months after the city called for an investigation into claims that it was used as a front for prostitution. Back in November, the city called for an investigation into civil claims against the Tennyson Wellness Center on Preston Road and its owner Diana Zhang. The […]
California progressives want to block a new bill that would recriminalize street loitering for the purpose of prostitution. SB 1219, authored by state Republican Sen. Kelly Seyarto, would reinstitute a provision previously taken out of California’s penal code that prohibited loitering in a public place. San Francisco Democrat Scott Wiener previously authored that bill, known […]
FILE – Federico Gutierrez, presidential candidate representing the Team for Colombia coalition, talks during a presidential debate at the El Tiempo newspaper building in Bogota, Colombia, May 23, 2022. On Monday, April 1, 2024, Gutierrez, the mayor of Colombia’s second largest city Medellín, issued a six-month ban on prostitution in some of the city’s most […]
A massage parlor owner whose employees allegedly offered illicit commercial sex in Lubbock County has been federally charged, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas announced this week. Shaoping Wen, 64, and her associate, Xu Wang, 41, were charged via criminal complaint with conspiracy to use interstate travel in aid of racketeering enterprises, […]