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."
