Anaheim : Council Sets Hearing on Massage Parlor’s Permit

After several charges of prostitution solicitation through the years, the Tender Touch Massage Parlor may lose its permits to operate in the city.

At the request of the Police Department, the City Council last week set a public hearing for Feb. 25 to consider revoking massage technician permits and a massage establishment permit.

The business at 219 S. State College Blvd. has been the target of undercover police operations since 1981, when an undercover officer charged one of the massage technicians with one count of solicitation of prostitution, Police Chief Jimmie D. Kennedy wrote in a report to the council.

The next year, police arrested another worker, who eventually was placed on three years’ probation, Kennedy wrote.

Last February, when police went to arrest the worker for violating the provisions of her probation, she again solicited an undercover officer, Kennedy says. The woman, who currently has a massage technician permit, was sentenced to a County Jail term and fined, Kennedy said. Police also arrested a third worker on prostitution solicitation charges last February.

Both Marie Tu Thi Nguyen, whose name appears on the massage establishment permit and who also has a massage technician permit, and her attorney, Hugh Coffin of Santa Ana, declined to comment.