A woman who operated a massage parlor in Grand Junction for more than a decade was arrested Thursday on suspicion of prostitution-related crimes.
Nan O’Reilly
Police allege 58-year-old Nan O’Reilly, owner of Fuji Oriental Therapy Massage, 762 Horizon Drive, used the business for pimping, racketeering and evading paying taxes, all felony charges. Search warrants for O’Reilly’s business, along with court documents about two other area massage parlors in Mesa County, are sealed as police continue an undercover investigation initiated in February.
O’Reilly, who has owned the massage parlor for 14 years, was in custody at Mesa County Jail on a $250,000 bond Thursday. She also faces misdemeanor charges of keeping a place of prostitution and promoting sexual immorality.
While Grand Junction police executed a search warrant at O’Reilly’s business Thursday, Colorado Springs law enforcement served a search warrant on a home she owns there. Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney’s Office wants to seize more than $1 million of O’Reilly’s assets, police said.
Grand Junction Police Department Cmdr. Greg Assenmacher said the investigation was prompted by multiple complaints of “street walking,” online escort services and other alleged activities at area massage parlors.
“Citizens went for legitimate massages and were propositioned,” Assenmacher said.
Two other massage parlors, identified only as a business on North Avenue and another in Clifton, are included in the investigation, Assenmacher said.
Police said more arrests are pending.
Grand Junction police worked with local, state and federal law enforcement on the prostitution sting, Assenmacher said.
Police have long wanted to conduct a prostitution sting in Grand Junction, Assenmacher said, but they prioritized the effort this year after dedicating an officer to conducting undercover prostitution operations. Police also began noticing an increase in local Internet listings for escort services and the arrival of more storefronts advertising “Oriental massage.”
“I think it’s a quality-of-life issue,” Assenmacher said. “We have enough complaints and concerns. We do hear it all the time.”
Massage therapists must be licensed by April 2009, according to a new state law. Grand Junction city leaders may pass an ordinance regulating massage parlors before that time.
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By Jake
Nov 22, 2008 6:15 AM | Link to this
To Amy Hamilton.
Please send me a copy of my posts,I am a writer and saving every little scrap is important to me.If it is more convenient for you, just attach the whole comments post to an e-mail. I find the criticism useful as well. You should have my e-addy,If not it is contained in an earlier post
I apologuise for using this public forum to contact you on this subject.
My machine won't HTTML whatsoever,and your e-addy bounces my yahoo account.
By Jake
Nov 21, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this
I didn't know north street existed till Monday,when I had buisiness there.I sure didn't know it was so sausy till this morning.
I don't live in Junction,have only lived in the state for 2 years. Over a year of that was above 7000ft. I purposely limit my time in cities precicely to avoid having anything other than hypothetical conversations,on the subject of the seedy side of life.
Country livin, often as not, fixes what ails ya in the big city.
By Jake
Nov 21, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this
Look, I appologuise if putting my contact info out there was at all inapropriate.
I am working on writing a book,and I find dialogue helpful. I have no other interest in making contact with anyone,in this forum whatsoever.
I make no appologys for being contravercial.
It gets folks thinking.
By bonzo
Nov 21, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they try to shut down the house of ill repute - everyone's known about it for years. And exactly how many customers went there for a "regular" massage and were surprised by a proposition? Give me a break. The name is a give-away.
By Jake
Nov 21, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this
Big supprise folks,Oil fields,big money boom and bust enterprizes, transient workforces, hookers,and a male to female ratio that cant be made up for by gays, the clergy, or free fast women with big appitites. it won't go away or separate itself from population centers. Any business can be run criminally, illegal or otherwise. Every entrepeneure must decide weather or not they are willing to be a criminal.That is a fundemental choice in all business.
How many companys set productivity quotas that require all production workers to ignore safety laws, and at the same time have a safety officer running around threatening to fire you if they catch you at what is common practice, due to company expectations. Who is being harmed when something goes wrong?
Who profits the most from the risk? Those are 2 fundemental questions of crime and punishment, that stand regardless of legality.
As to me needing therapy LOL. A conceiled carry permit,some evidence,and a good lawyer yes, but but a therapist, no. I am a very self aware human being and am excelant at mantaining my own emotional and psychological well being.
as far as my spelling I am a bit dislexic, my machine doesn't do, multiple windows well, and I don't have a functioning word processing program.
Literacy has almost nothing to do with spelling or grammer. It is the ability to articulate ones self using a symbolic language. Glyph languages are not concidered symbolic enough to be literary.You cant misspell a hiroglyph.You can on the other hand misspell anything you are literate in.
By doh
Nov 21, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this
Regarding Jake: Everyone, be wary of the troll.
By Big D
Nov 21, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this
So it took 10 years. Iım glad, that with public distress, the GJPD took action. I am not only opposed to prostitution, but also to breaking the law. Prostitution is still illegal.
Jake ı seek help. Also, you can cut and paste from your word processor if you donıt want to come across as illiterate.
By Willopad the Merciless
Nov 21, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this
Ahhh, the Grand Valley! A place where it takes the cops ten years to bust a house of ill repute that everyone seems to know about! A place where it takes cops and the DA five to ten years to catch embezzling from employers and a place where drugs are openly channelled and manufactured by the Mexican Mafia to the boys on the gas rigs.
The products of our blind-eye,Republican administrations in the city, county, and jusicial branches in our beloved governments! All this for higher taxes, higher wages for the administrators and increasing fees for the citizens! The political mafia is no different than the real mafia when you take a hard look at reality!
They both steal from you...just differently.
By david
Nov 21, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this
OK, three things I learned from this article and it's subsequent comments:
1: Law Enforcement was either willfully ignoring this or just plain stupid, everyone knew what Fuji was. I personally couldn't care less what consenting adults did behind those doors.
2: Coloradolady needs to get a life
3: Jake needs some serious help, Hooked on Phonics and some therapy should be a good start.
By nick
Nov 21, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this
I dont know about everybody else, since i was in middlescchool it was a known fact that the massage place on horizon was a place where you could pay for sex. not a big surprise. imshocked they didnt bust it 10 years ago
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