FOX 13's Carla Bayron reports on a large-scale investigation that led to the arrest and shut down of numerous Polk County massage parlors being for alleged prostitution.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd provides more information after 21 suspects were arrested in a two-day, undercover massage parlor sting. Of the 22 massage parlors that were audited, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said 12 were not in compliance with the law.
Judd said those parlors were also doing things that were illegal, such as prostitution. In addition to the 20 massage therapists who were arrested, another woman was arrested for interfering while deputies were arresting someone else. According to the sheriff, all the women arrested are Asian. Three are U. Judd said his agency will work with the federal government to revoke the visas.
You come here. You even legally come here, and you violate the law, you should have lost our trust at the federal level, and you should be returned to your home country. Twenty-one women were arrested in an undercover massage parlor sting in Polk County. Image is courtesy of the Polk County Sheriff's Office. He added that the oldest woman arrested was 64 and the youngest was Judd said that one of the women was from Lakeland, but the others said they travel around.
However, he said she came out with oil and turned the lights down and started massaging the undercover detective in areas that constituted illegal conduct.
