WESTMINSTER, Orange County - An Orange County man from Westminster was arrested by Police on Friday for running a brothel business, which is suppose to be the largest in the area.
Thong Vinh Le, 23, of Westminster, was arrested for running the prostitution business in Garden Grove, locates at the 9800 block of Katella Avenue and possible charge for human trafficking and sex crimes.
According to Westminster police that there were eleven women working there, all Vietnamese, who were later arrested for prostitution.
Orange County Police detective noticed that the business was offering massage services at Garden Grove location in an advertisement in a Vietnamese newspaper.
The business was operating as a chiropractor business and massage business. Police are investigating if the owner of the chiropractor also involves in the alleged brothel operation.
U.S. Immigration also is working with the orange county police department on these women's immigration matters. Surprisingly, most of the women have U.S citizenship and green cards.
In most of cases, women are always brought in to the U.S from other country illegally and employed in prostitution business like this,
Last year, the Westminster Police Department, received a $1.2 million federal grant to fight human trafficking in Orange County, especially in Vietnamese communities in and around Little Saigon.
Police used to charge those women in the prostitution business with misdemeanors and release them back into the community. Nowadays, they are treated more as victims.
Under California criminal law, Prostitution is a serious crime. It can be charged as a misdemeanor or felony case depending: if it is solicitation or pandering.
Solicitation for Prostitution is misdemeanor charge; pandering or pimping is felony charge.
According to California Penal Code Section 647(b), Solicitation for Prostitution is defined as the act of asking someone to exchange money for sexual activity. Underr Penal Code Section 266(i), Pandering or pimping is defined as soliciting people for prostitution services and recruiting prostitutes to work for them.
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