The Sun Sunnyvale's Newspaper News Briefs Police find house of prostitution at complex After responding to an advertisement in a local weekly newspaper, undercover police officers arrested three people for prostitution in a Sunnyvale apartment three weeks ago. According to the police report, two women, ages 36 and 37, offered to have sex with a vice officer for $200 inside an apartment in the 400 block of Brahms Way. A 35-year-old male was charged with pimping and running a house of prostitution. "There was an ad confirming what the neighbors suspected," Capt. Chuck Eanuff said. Eanuff said the advertisement offered massage therapy. In Sunnyvale, massage therapists need licenses to practice. "Officers made the call, made an appointment, and made the arrests," Eanuff said. Police did not know how long the illegitimate business had been running out of the apartment. The manager of the Cezanne apartment complex, who did not want her name used due to the nature of the crime, said the tenants had not lived there long. "We didn't know anything about anything that was going on," she said. "We don't even know what the charges were or if they stuck," she added. Even so, the manager said, "We gave them a 30-day notice." But a man who answered the door to the apartment--and was unaware he was talking to a reporter--said, "The girls are on vacation." The man said they would return in one month. Eanuff said it is not uncommon for officers to peruse newspapers in search of Sunnvyale phone numbers that offer massage therapy. "It's an ongoing problem," he said. [ Back to Contents Page | Sunnyvale Sun Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, February 10, 1999. ©1999 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.