This is not the happy ending a Texas massage parlor was hoping for.
Police in South Austin arrested a husband and wife accused of operating a prostitution ring inside their massage business after a waste pipe became clogged with hundreds of condoms.
CBS Austin reports that a property management company alerted authorities to the clogged pipe and possible prostitution. Police then launched an investigation into the business and its owners, a woman named Juan Wang and her husband Joseph Emery.
During the investigation, police found that Wang and Emery had posted several online ads for Jade Massage Therapy on Backpage.com, a site often used to solicit prostitution.
The ads contained images of women and Wang’s phone number, authorities said.
Officers also interviewed a man seen leaving the parlor who allegedly confessed that his massage ended with the masseuse performing a sexual act on him.
Police then obtained a search warrant for the business and found Wang in one of the rooms with a naked man.
A second naked guy was found in another room with a female masseuse, the outlet reported. Cops also searched Wang and Emery’s home and found over $60,000 in a safe.
According to My San Antonio, further investigation into the husband and wife revealed that Wang had been stopped at Austin Bergstrom International Airport after a TSA agent discovered that she had $30,000 in “duct taped bundles” with her.
Officers let her go after her husband confirmed her story that she was traveling to China with the cash for a medical procedure.
After their arrest, Wang and Emery told police they didn’t know the names of the women working for them and had hired them through a friend. Wang and her husband were charged with money laundering and engaging in organized criminal activity.
