None had either city licenses to perform body works or state licenses as massage therapists. The police said they found three other women hiding in the back of the building in makeshift living quarters. Zhenchun Jin, 51, pleaded not guilty to soliciting an undercover detective for prostitution. Monica Chow, 24, is ordered to Municipal Court for two counts of violating a body-works establishment license. “I think we open next week,” she told a Journal reporter. Inside the small office, where a computer screen showed nine views from outside surveillance cameras, Naja Ho declined comment on behalf of her daughter. The police say the name was different but the business was the same.Īn old North Main Street Spa sign remains inside the small lobby where, on Thursday, one man after another was turned away. After Larry Chow and Naja Ho closed their North Main Street Spa, which had survived several prostitution raids, their daughter Monica Chow reopened the business as Smilers. In Providence, all of the massage parlors closed in 2015 when police and city license officials began enforcing a body-works ordinance. The two cities have similar ordinances, with different outcomes. In a lawsuit filed at Superior Court last week, the owners of Far East and Harmony Spa accuse Pawtucket officials of discrimination against Asians for a so-called “body works” ordinance intended to root out illicit massage parlors. However, just a few miles away in Pawtucket, it’s the massage parlors that are taking the city to court. The City of Providence ordered Smilers Day Spa to close Wednesday and gave the owner a court summons after police charged one worker with prostitution and found that none of the women there were licensed to perform massages or “body works.” Providence officials used a similar ordinance on Wednesday to close a massage parlor.īy Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer In a lawsuit filed at Superior Court last week, the owners of two parlors accuse Pawtucket officials of discrimination against Asians for a so-called “body works” ordinance intended to root out illicit massage parlors.
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