Massage parlor workers charged with prostitution

MASSAGES: BUT ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY THE WOMEN WERE GIVING THOSE... AND THEN SOME. NOW, TWO WOM...  More »

MASSAGES: BUT ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY THE WOMEN WERE GIVING THOSE... AND THEN SOME. NOW, TWO WOMEN ARE UNDER ARREST FOR RUNNING A PROSTITUTION HOUSE IN THE HEART OF THE NORTHEAST HEIGHTS. THE VICE SQUAD had the BUSINESS UNDER SURVEILLANCE SINCE MARCH AFTER AN ANONYMOUS TIP CAME IN THAT THIS MASSAGE PARLOR WAS PROVIDING SEXUAL FAVORS AS WELL. POLICE ARRESTED TWO CHINESE WOMEN -- ONE IS 51- YEARS-OLD THE OTHER 42 -- ON CHARGES OF PROSTITUTION AND RUNNING A HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION. POLICE SENT TWO UNDERCOVER OFFICERS INTO THE 'HEALTH SYSTEM'MASSAGE PARLOR THIS MORNING WHO SAY THEY WERE THEN PROPOSITIONED FOR SEXUAL ACTS. MAKING THIS TYPE OF BUST IS NOT NEW -- MAKING IT IN THIS PART OF TOWN IS: : 'What amazes me is this is the middle of Albuquerque and basically this is a house of prostitution which apparently had been operating for about a year.' DETECTIVES ARE STILL LOOKING FOR ONE OTHER WOMAN WHO WORKED HERE -- AND FOR THE OWNER OF THE BUSINESS WHO LIVES IN CALIFORNIA. POLICE SAY THE WOMEN CHARGED 45-DOLLARS FOR THE ORIENTAL MASSAGE AND THEN A 60- DOLLAR TIP FOR THE SEXUAL SERVICE. DETECTIVES SAY THEY WERE ALSO ADVERTISING THEIR MASSAGE SERVICES IN THE 'ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL'.  « Less