New York Massage Parlors: Appeals court overturns massage parlor armed robbery convictions
Appeals court overturns massage parlor armed robbery convictions
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EAST BRUNSWICK — A state appeals court today threw out the convictions of two people charged in a string of armed robberies at massage parlors in 2003, finding that the search of a vehicle they were caught in was unconstitutional.
Alnesha Minitee, 34, West Orange, and Darnell Bland, 39, of Linden were part of a group of four people accused of robbing massage parlors in Middlesex, Somerset, Bergen and Essex counties.
Among the businesses robbed were massage parlors in East Brunswick and Highland Park on Jan. 16, 2003.
The group was captured in Fort Lee eight days later after robbing a massage parlor there, authorities said. When police caught them, they found Star-Ledger newspapers with classified ads for massage parlors marked with asterisks showing the ones the group robbed, authorities said. They also found the surveillance tape stolen from the East Brunswick massage parlor during one of the heists.