{"id":9253,"date":"2020-08-20T21:52:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T21:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/08\/20\/seven-indicted-for-allegedly-running-prostitution-ring-out-of-denver-massage-parlors\/134993\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T21:52:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T21:52:39","slug":"seven-indicted-for-allegedly-running-prostitution-ring-out-of-denver-massage-parlors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/seven-indicted-for-allegedly-running-prostitution-ring-out-of-denver-massage-parlors\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven indicted for allegedly running prostitution ring out of Denver massage parlors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/seven-indicted-for-allegedly-running-prostitution-ring-out-of-denver-massage-parlors\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-20-at-3.34.02-PM-560x314.png\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/seven-indicted-for-allegedly-running-prostitution-ring-out-of-denver-massage-parlors.png\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/seven-indicted-for-allegedly-running-prostitution-ring-out-of-denver-massage-parlors-2.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2020\/08\/20\/seven-indicted-for-allegedly-running-prostitution-ring-out-of-denver-massage-parlors\/134993\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"134993\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Denver grand jury indicted seven people and 12 businesses for running an alleged international human trafficking operation comprised of illicit massage parlors and black market marijuana grow operations, the Denver District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The seven individuals, indicted on 33 felony counts, are accused of \u201cengaging in a pattern of racketeering in which the massage parlors were the nexus for running a complex pimping, prostitution, money laundering and tax evasion operation that generated millions of dollars,\u201d the DA\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the defendants were hiding in plain sight as they trafficked women from China to engage in sex acts with customers of their massage businesses,\u201d Beth McCann, Denver\u2019s District Attorney, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/08\/20\/denver-massage-parlor-human-trafficking-prostitution-indictment\/\">Read the rest of this story on DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Denver grand jury indicted seven people and 12 businesses for running an alleged international human trafficking operation comprised of illicit massage parlors and black market marijuana grow operations, the Denver District Attorney\u2019s Office announced Thursday. The seven individuals, indicted on 33 felony counts, are accused of \u201cengaging in a pattern of racketeering in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7042,851,6814,6933,9,8189,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[7045,3424,6819,6934,8190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}