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The fear is that shutting down advertising sites will make it harder for people to engage is safe sex work. Elspeth-Patterson points out that it is often underprivelged sex workers who are using Backpage.com, because they can’t afford to advertise on their own. They may then be pushed into even more unregulated venues and unsafe environments. Losing the ability to conduct sex work online also means losing the ability to screen clients beforehand. As well as the important electronic trail which can be key to hunting down a perpetrator if a sex worker is attacked.
Allison, 26, uses Backpage to advertise for erotic massage. “It’s scary, you know? All this media attention on Backpage. I can’t really afford to use the other paid sites for my massage stuff, which I do on top of another job. After my hours were cut back last year, this is the only way I can make ends meet. I really don’t know what I’ll do if they get rid of it. It makes me worried about getting more work safely.”

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The council did not vote on an ordinance Wednesday that would have established new regulations pertaining to massage parlors and masseuses.
The ordinance was not voted on because state officials are changing their regulations pertaining to the establishments.
“We decided that it would be logical to wait to change our ordinance until after the state changes the regulations,” said Mayor Chris Vergano.
The ordinance will be reintroduced once officials know what facets of the industry the new state regulations will cover.
The ordinance would have required massage therapists to be licensed by the township, submit to a background check and be fingerprinted.
The ordinance would have prohibited employees to “perform, or offer to perform any act, which would require the touching of a patron’s sexual or genital area.”
The new law would have required that a patron’s private area be covered by “towels, cloths, or undergarments” when they are in the presence of an employee.

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Massage parlor owner arrested
Updated: Thursday, 05 Apr 2012, 4:51 PM EDTPublished : Thursday, 05 Apr 2012, 2:47 PM EDT
West Haven, Conn. (WTNH) — A Brooklyn, New York man was arrested after police say he interfered with a police investigation into a West Haven massage parlor.
Officers were called to the The Marigold Spa located at 236 Captain Thomas Blvd on April 4 after receiving complaints from other area businesses. The massage parlor had been shut down several weeks earlier after police determined the business did not have operating permits.
Police, health and building officials are working together to investigate the business because they believe it is being used as a house of prostitution.
When officers arrived, they were confronted by Lin Ying who slammed the door on them.

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Three cars were vandalized while parked in West Hempstead between March 26 and March 28. The first incident occurred on St. Pauls Place, where the driver’s side window of a rental vehicle was damaged. The next day, a victim on S. Cherry Valley Avenue reported finding scratches on the passenger and driver sides of their vehicle. That night, another person reportedly broke the driver side window of a car parked on Woodfield Road.
An unknown person reportedly through a brick through the front window of a building located on Hempstead Avenue in West Hempstead between March 28 and March 29.
An unknown person broke a window at the King Kullen store located on New Hyde Park Road in Franklin Square on March 29.
The upstairs bedroom window of a home located on Cherry Lane in Franklin Square was broken by an unknown person on March 30.
UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE
The Problem Oriented Policing and PEP Office along with NVB detectives conducted an investigation into illegal massage parlors in the Franklin Square area. Zhijie Zhuie, of Flushing, was arrested for allegedly giving a detective an unlicensed massage.

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Another ordinance introduces several new regulations pertaining to massage parlors and masseuses.
The ordinance would require that massage therapists be licensed by the township, submit to a background check and be fingerprinted. Therapists’ permits must be displayed “in an open and prominent place” in the establishment.
Massage parlors would be held to stricter standards of cleanliness.
The third ordinance would make Valhalla Way one-way between the eastern most intersection of Valhalla and Surrey heading to Hamburg Turnpike.
Drivers would be prohibited from turning left onto Valhalla Way from Hamburg Turnpike. Drivers make the turn throughout the day as a way of avoiding a jughandle on Hamburg Turnpike.
“It’s turned a quite, residential neighborhood into a raceway,” said Councilwoman Nadine Bello, who is sponsoring the legislation.
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Related Topics: Valhalla Way, Victor Alfieri, Wayne Town Council, and massage parlors

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27 Arrested in NJ Prostitution Sting
Authorities also seized more than $27,000
Authorities have arrested 27 people on prostitution-related charges in Bergen County.     
Prosecutor John Molinelli says the sweep targeted numerous illegal massage parlors and hotels where customers would engage in sex for money.      
Eleven arrests took place at a hotel in Paramus.      
Authorities seized more than $27,000.     
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A Fort Lee woman has been charged with prostitution after an investigation of a Central Nyack massage parlor, according to Clarkstown police.
Soo Jung Lee, 39, of Fort Lee, was arrested after an investigation at 9 Ingalls St. In addition to prostitution, a misdemeanor, she was also charged with unauthorized practice of a profession, a felony, and failure to apply for a massage therapist license, a violation.
She was released pending an April 16 hearing in Clarkstown Town Court in New City.

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… Targeted during this investigation were numerous illegal massage parlors and in-call prostitution operations that have been operating in area hotels,” Molinelli said in a statement. 
Police arrested 11 people on March 15 as part of the anti-prostitution initiative. The 11 people were either prostitutes or their drivers,  Molinelli said.
Hanna Young, 38, of Queens, N.Y., Yan Zhang, 43, of Queens, N.Y., Joann Marsaka, 24, of Bayonne, Amanda Blackwell, 23, of Emporia, Va., Sofia Matallana, 35, of Spring Valley, and Li Jie, 42, of Queens, N.Y., were charged with engaging in prostitution.
Jian Zhang, 40, of Mahattan, N.Y., Jun Li, 46, of Manhattan, N.Y., Jian Wang, 58, of Queens, N.Y., Javier Rebolledo, 36, of Suffern, N.Y., and Dwight Oquendo, 22, of Jersey City, were charged with facilitating prostitution.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office also targeted 12 massage parlors in Bergen County. Undercover police were asked to pay for sex at each location, Molinelli said.

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The county-wide crackdown targeted facilities in eight towns, including a hotel in Paramus and a dozen massage parlors, leading to the closure of some of the targeted businesses “as a result of health and building code violations,” Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said.
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On March 29, Shundi Li, 36, of Queens was charged with engaging in prostitution at the Ocean Spa on East Main Street in Ramsey. That same day, police investigated two massage parlors in Lyndhurst, charging Yun Choi, 48, of East Hanover at the Heavenly Exit on Valley Brook Avenue and Meihua Lin, 34, of Queens, and Fuzi Hung, 45, of Queens at the First Health Spa on Ridge Road.
Police finished their sweep of Bergen County massage parlors on March 30 at the Heaven Spa on Liberty Street in Little Ferry, where Zxiangmei Sun, 23, was charged with engaging in prostitution and Thomas Spiess, 38, of North Bergen was charged for an outstanding warrant and possession of marijuana.

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The joint investigation was carried out by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Squad, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office and eight municipal police departments. A dozen massage parlors and “in-call” operations – where customers call for prostitution services and are directed to a specific location in exchange for cash – were targeted in response to citizen complaints made to local police, Molinelli said in a statement.
Eleven people were arrested March 15 in a Paramus hotel for prostitution-related offenses. The following were arrested for engaging in prostitution: Hanna Young, 38, Yan Zhang, 43 and Li Jie, 42, all of Queens; Joann Maraska, 24, of Bayonne; Amanda Blackwell, 23, of Emporia, Va.; and Sofia Matallana, 35, of Spring Valley, N.Y.
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On March 26, authorities arrested seven people at 12 massage parlors across Bergen County, Molinelli said.

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