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This story has been updated to reflect the hours massage parlors cannot operate.
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Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 8 Jan. 2025
In its place came strip clubs, adult bookstores and seedy massage parlors that, along with government corruption scandals and a deadly Wild West-style gunfight involving the town’s then-police chief, fueled Brooklyn’s past notoriety as a dangerous den of vice.
—Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
Several individuals are accused of operating illicit massage parlors in Detroit, St. Clair Shores and Sterling Heights and are now facing multiple felony charges.
—Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
In October 2022, the unit had been assigned to look into allegations of prostitution at nine of Lewisville's massage parlors and another in Flower Mound.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Nov. 2024
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Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 8 Jan. 2025
In its place came strip clubs, adult bookstores and seedy massage parlors that, along with government corruption scandals and a deadly Wild West-style gunfight involving the town’s then-police chief, fueled Brooklyn’s past notoriety as a dangerous den of vice.
—Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
Several individuals are accused of operating illicit massage parlors in Detroit, St. Clair Shores and Sterling Heights and are now facing multiple felony charges.
—Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
In October 2022, the unit had been assigned to look into allegations of prostitution at nine of Lewisville's massage parlors and another in Flower Mound.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 2 Nov. 2024
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“Massage parlor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massage%20parlor. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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