Sacramento Escorts: Feds raid two massage parlors
LODI – Federal agents on Thursday searched two Lodi massage parlors they believe are fronts for brothels, and the out-of-state owners are jailed, facing prostitution and money-laundering charges.
Business partners Tham Nguyen, 48, and Suong Tran, 51, both of the Seattle suburb of Burien, Wash., were arrested after a federal grand jury issued a two-count indictment, authorities with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced.
Authorities say the two own several massage parlors in Washington and California and a legal brothel in Nevada.
In Lodi, the businesses searched were the AAH Spa at 20 N. Cherokee Lane and Valley Spa at 321 N. California St.
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Investigators believe that beginning in 2007, Nguyen and Tran hired women from out of state to work as prostitutes and moved them back and forth among the parlors, according to an agency news release.