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Third suspect faces prostitution charges
LODI – A Lodi man has been named as a third person suspected of running a prostitution ring from Washington state to California, allegedly using massage parlors as fronts for brothels, according to federal court documents.
Carl Hencmann, 65, of Lodi appeared in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on Monday, officials said, facing prostitution and money-laundering charges. He was ordered jailed in lieu of $250,000 bail.
Federal authorities believe Hencmann and two business partners – Tham Nguyen, 48, and Suong Tran, 51, both of Burien, Wash. – hired women from out of state to work as prostitutes and moved them among massage parlors in Lodi, Sacramento and Washington state, and a legal brothel in Nevada.
In Lodi, the businesses targeted were the AAH Spa at 20 N. Cherokee Lane and Valley Spa at 321 N. California St.

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Owners of Kirkland massage parlor (and others) arrested for multi-state prostitution, money laundering scheme
By REPORTER STAFFKIRKLAND REPORTER
The owners of a string of massage parlors in Washington – including one in Kirkland – and California were arrested Thursday after an investigation found a prostitution and money laundering scheme.
Tham Nguyen, 48, and Suong Tran, 51, both of Burien, face charges of conspiracy to transport individuals in furtherance of prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. A federal grand jury handed down a two-count indictment against them Wednesday.
According to court documents, the defendants owned and operated three massage parlors in Washington, three similar businesses in California and a legal brothel in Nevada. The massage parlors were allegedly fronts for prostitution.
The massage parlors in Washington include the Fantasy Health Spa, at 11516 124th Ave. N.E. in Kirkland, the Sauna Relax Station in Auburn and Bamboo Sauna in Burien.

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ICE: 3 Calif. Spas Were Fronts For Prostitution
2 People From Washington State In CustodyPOSTED: 4:01 pm PDT April 22, 2010UPDATED: 4:11 pm PDT April 22, 2010
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two people from Washington state operated massage parlors in Sacramento and Lodi that were actually fronts for prostitution, immigration officials alleged Thursday.
Tham Nguyen, 48, and Suong Tran, 51, were taken into custody Thursday after agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with local authorities, executed federal search warrants at the businesses. A federal grand jury issued a two-county indictment Wednesday.
Immigration officials said the pair operated AAH Spa on North Cherokee Lane in Lodi, Valley Spa on North California Street in Lodi, and Healthy Living Nails and Spa on 47th Avenue in Sacramento. They also operated spas in Washington and a legal brothel in Nevada, immigration officials claimed.

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Lodi detectives Carlos Fuentes, left, and Paul Blanford stand in front of a house owned by a woman accused of offering prostitution in local massage parlors. (Dan Evans/News-Sentinel)

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Federal and local authorities on Thursday arrested two people for allegedly operating a string of massage parlors in Washington and California that included two in Lodi and one in Sacramento County that were fronts for prostitution.
According to a news release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement department, Tham Nguyen, 48, and Suong Tran, 51, both of Burien, Wash., face charges of conspiracy to transport individuals in furtherance of prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering. They were indicted on Wednesday.
Investigators say they learned that since 2007, Nguyen and Tran recruited women from out-of-state to work as prostitutes and arranged for them to be moved among their businesses, which included three massage parlors in Washington and three in California. They also owned and operated a legal brothel in Nevada.

See the full article from “Sacramento Bee (blog)”

From our “Well That’s Not Surprising” and “It’s About Time” departments comes word from our friends at KIRO News that two people have been busted on prostitution charges for running three “massage parlors,” including Bamboo Sauna, located at 14021 Ambaum Blvd. SW in Burien.

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Sacramento, Lodi ‘massage spa’ owners arrested in prostitution probe
SACRAMENTO, CA – One Sacramento and two Lodi massage parlors were being used as fronts in a three-state prostitution and money laundering enterprise, allege immigration and customs investigators.
The owners/operators of Healthy Living Nails and Spa, 3715 47th Avenue in Sacramento; Valley Spa, 321 North California Street, Lodi; and AAH Spa, 20 North Cherokee Lane, Lodi, were arrested on conspiracy to transport individuals for prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering, said Lorie Dankers, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security.
Washington state residents Tham Nguyen, 48, and Suong Tran, 51, taken into custody Thursday. Court documents show the pair owns the three California businesses as well as three similar enterprises in Washington and a legal brothel in Nevada.

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The city of Sacramento on Monday announced that it is seeking applicants for $12 million in low-interest bonds provided by the federal stimulus package for private development projects.
The bond financing stems from the Recovery Zone Facility Bond program, which is a low-cost financing mechanism for ready-to-build projects. Cities and counties were granted the authority to issue these bonds to stimulate development.
The city issued the notice Monday and is seeking letters of interest.
Sacramento will be a “conduit” issuer of the bonds, but the funding is not a grant and the city is not “backing” the bond. Borrowers must have the ability to secure a letter of credit from a rated bank or commitment from an institutional investor.
Projects that do not qualify under federal rules are residential rental properties, golf courses, country clubs, massage parlors, hot tub facilities, suntan facilities, racetracks, gambling facilities or liquor stores.

See the full article from “MSN Money”

The city of Sacramento on Monday announced that it is seeking applicants for $12 million in low-interest bonds provided by the federal stimulus package for private development projects.
The bond financing stems from the Recovery Zone Facility Bond program, which is a low-cost financing mechanism for ready-to-build projects. Cities and counties were granted the authority to issue these bonds to stimulate development.
The city issued the notice Monday and is seeking letters of interest.
Sacramento will be a “conduit” issuer of the bonds, but the funding is not a grant and the city is not “backing” the bond. Borrowers must have the ability to secure a letter of credit from a rated bank or commitment from an institutional investor.
Projects that do not qualify under federal rules are residential rental properties, golf courses, country clubs, massage parlors, hot tub facilities, suntan facilities, racetracks, gambling facilities or liquor stores.

See the full article from “Sacramento Business Journal”

Vacaville Sex For Sale
FOX40 News December 23, 2009
VACAVILLE – A husband pimping out his own wife online and a woman giving sexual services at a massage parlor.
They’re just some of the alleged crimes stopped by a prostitution sting in Vacaville over the past three months.
Vacaville Police say Lina Nguyen was offering special sexual services inside K&M Massage parlor. FOX40 did talk to the owner, but she said she was unaware of what Nguyen was doing on her property.
But cops say Nguyen was providing sexual services on a daily basis. And it appears she wasn’t shy about her location – K & M is just 3-blocks from the Vacaville Police Department.
Still cops say their shocker in this several month long sting is Samuel and Christina Lamb – a husband and wife team who advertised sex online.

See the full article from “Fox40″