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Search the Archive:. Publication Date: Friday, August 29, Massage parlors continue to pose prostitution problem Massage parlors continue to pose prostitution problem August 29, Despite the bust of another brothel disguised as a massage parlor in Mountain View two weeks ago, prostitution is a crime that just isn't going away.
By Candice Shih "They keep popping up all the time," said Javier Alcala, the assistant district attorney who has been tracking houses of prostitution for several years.
The officers had been waiting outside. Once inside, they arrested the masseuse, Fengzhen Liu, 40, for prostitution. They also arrested the two other women in the parlor, Bin Zeng, 35, and Wei Qu, 34, for running a house of prostitution. All three women were also charged with performing massages without a license.
Alcala later discovered that the owner of the business, Annie Zhao, had served time for pimping and pandering in San Jose in Mountain View has been host to several suspect massage parlors, including the Song Song Health Club which was next-door to the Voice 's W. Evelyn Ave. Alcala knows of several others and estimates that there are six to 10 total in Mountain View, and another 10 to 15 in Sunnyvale. Now occupying their own genre of prostitution, Asian massage parlors are successful possibly because they seem to have a big supply of women who are willing to work for less money, he said.
