Thread: NY-Cops: 4 arrested in Southampton brothel probe

Updated: 1:43 p.m.

Cops: 4 arrested in Southampton brothel probe
1:43 PM EDT, May 18, 2009

BY DAVID J. LOPEZ | david.lopez@newsday.com

Two men and two women were arrested after a probe determined that a Southampton man was running a brothel out of his home, police said.

Luis Ortiz-Parra, 37, brought prostitutes from as far as Queens to serve "a clientele of between 30 and 40 johns each night of the week," Southampton Town Police said in a Saturday news release announcing the four arrests and the brothel's closure.

Ortiz-Parra, of 46 Longview Rd., was charged with third-degree promoting prostitution, a class D Felony, and second-degree criminal nuisance, a class B misdemeanor, police said.

Two Queens women, ages 31 and 33, were charged with prostitution, a class B misdemeanor.
Pablo Estanle Calle Mendez, 34, of West Neck Road, Southampton, was charged with third-degree patronizing a prostitute, a class A misdemeanor, police said.

The four suspects are in the United States illegally and were reported to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, police said.

The arrests came as a result of an undercover investigation by the Southampton Town Police Department's Street Crime Unit, which looked into a reported house of prostitution at 46 Longview Rd., authorities said.

Investigators determined that two women worked each evening, and Parra paid them $20 per customer and he would collect between $30 and $40, netting him a daily profit of $300 to $800, police said.

The investigation is ongoing, and more arrests are expected, police said.

Anyone with information is urged to call police at 702-2245 or the crime hot line at 728-3454. The e-mail is crimetips@southamptontownny.gov.

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Isn't prostitution a job Americans will do? I know pimping is.