Vice detective ran interstate prostitution ring after he retired – By Cortney Weil (The Blaze) / Apr 5 2023
A former vice detective with the San Diego Police Department has pled guilty to managing several brothels in California and Arizona that fronted as massage parlors.
On Tuesday, 78-year-old Peter Griffin and three co-defendants admitted that they had run the prostitution ring for nearly 10 years. From 2013 until last August, the defendants operated the Genie Oriental, Felicita, Blue Green, Maple, and Massage W spas, all of which are located near San Diego, California, and Tempe, Arizona. Though these “spas” appeared to be legitimate massage businesses, Griffin and his associates — Kyung Sook Hernandez, 58, Yu Hong Tan, 56, and Yoo Jin Ott, 46 — hired women to perform sexual services there.
The defendants advertised their businesses on websites “known to promote commercial sex,” CBS News reported, and then found prospective prostitutes from these same websites. They then rented apartments to house the prostitutes, at least one of whom was likely a Chinese immigrant. “Leave [your] morals in China,” one prostitute was allegedly told, and “make the customers happy.”
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