They're No Angels
Massive Miami-Dade prostitution ring busted in "Operation Fallen Angel"
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POMONA, CA - NOVEMBER 12: A man stands handcuffed as a female police officer posing as a prostitute fills out paperwork before returning to Holt Boulevard, known to sex workers throughout southern California as "the track", during a major prostitution sting operation November 12, 2004 in Pomona, California. Approximately 60 to 80 men are arrested each night during the sting operations. Cars driven by the arrested men are seized and become city property until a $1000 fine is paid. Each vehicle is then labeled with a large window sticker stating that the car was ?seized for solicitation of prostitution? and the photos of the men appear in a full-page ad in the local newspaper. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Miami-Dade police conducted a massive raid on massage parlors they claim were a hotbed of prostitution.
Called "Operation Fallen Angel," the raid focused on seven parlors throughout Miami-Dade and Broward, all owned and run by Michael Angelini.
Angelini, 47, of Miami Beach, three managers, and six of his ladies were all busted in the operation that went down around 2 p.m. yesterday, and were charged with racketeering, money laundering and prostitution.
"The girls that were working inside the massage parlors were giving happy endings," said Sgt. Nicole Donnelly, with the Miami-Dade Police Dept.
The services were called "body scrubs," police said, and the operation, which had been running for over a decade brought in between $30,000 and $40,000 per month for Angelini.
Among the other arrested were Dereck Greenberg, 36, Katherine Area, 30, and Michelle Bonilla, 25.
"All of his massage parlors were all set up to sell beauty supplies and throughout all the massage parlors, nothing was being sold," Donnelly said. "It's still against the law, it's still prostitution."
