{"id":390987,"date":"2026-07-08T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T19:26:08","slug":"neighbors-are-fed-up-with-a-trailer-advertising-adult-hookups-can-it-be-stopped-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390987\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors are fed up with a trailer advertising \u2018adult hookups.\u2019 Can it be stopped? \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"

After dozens of complaints from North Long Beach residents about a detached trailer advertising \u201cadult fun\u201d and \u201chookups,\u201d city leaders say they\u2019re looking for ways to get it out of the neighborhood for good.<\/p>\n

The two-wheel trailer covered in pink-and-white ads has been parked around North Long Beach for months. Most recently, it\u2019s at the intersection of Cherry Avenue and Del Amo Boulevard since at least Thursday, Long Beach residents say. It\u2019s promoting a website, Pinkys Girls, that advertises sex on demand in more than 400 cities across the country, including Long Beach.<\/p>\n

Residents have been asking the city to intervene. Many expressed concerns about sex work in an area of Long Beach where human trafficking and prostitution have disrupted daily life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One resident worried about kids being exposed to these kinds of ads. Lately, the trailer has been parked directly adjacent to the Spires, and the restaurant\u2019s owner, Adelfo Brito, said it\u2019s bad for business.<\/p>\n

\"\"A trailer with an advertising sign is parked just beyond a Spires restaurant on Del Amo Boulevard near Cherry Avenue in Long Beach on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Councilmember Tunua Thrash-Ntuk, whose 8th District encompasses the intersection, responded publicly on Facebook and said her team and the police department are \u201chighly aware\u201d of the situation and the \u201cbad actor\u201d who has been \u201cbouncing this trailer around our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even before the trailer showed up in District 8, it was a problem in nearby District 9, which includes northernmost Long Beach, and the trailer had previously been parked on Long Beach Boulevard, a known corridor for trafficking, she said in an interview. Already, Thrash-Ntuk\u2019s office has received approximately 50 complaints about the trailer and the topic has dominated neighborhood association meetings, she said.<\/p>\n

In response, the councilmember said she coordinated with parking enforcement to tow the trailer on multiple occasions, yet \u201cplaying a game of whack-a-mole every 72 hours is not a permanent solution,\u201d she said in her Facebook post, referring to a city ordinance that allows vehicles to remain parked in the same space for up to three days.<\/p>\n

Now, she said she\u2019s working with police and the city attorney\u2019s office to find more permanent solutions.<\/p>\n

The trailer\u2019s operator might be required to obtain a business license to continue using public streets to advertise, Thrash-Ntuk said. She also suggested establishing buffer zones to prevent the trailer\u2019s operators (and others) from advertising adult content \u2014 like cigarettes, alcohol and sex \u2014 near elementary schools and daycares.<\/p>\n

Long Beach police said in a statement that they \u201chave and will continue to take enforcement action when appropriate\u201d but did not explain what kind of enforcement.<\/p>\n

\"\"Vehicles pass a parked trailer with an advertising sign on Del Amo Boulevard near Cherry Avenue in Long Beach on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova.<\/p>\n

Yet even though the trailer has been towed in the past, the city must proceed cautiously, as a judge previously found the city had acted inappropriately in a similar case. In 2018, the city attorney\u2019s office ordered a company to remove its trailers, which advertised its services while legally parked on public streets. (The company, Hit & Miss Enterprises, operated a cleaning service and used the trailers to store and transport cleaning supplies, according to a court document.)<\/p>\n

The city began impounding the trailers, and the company sued the city for violating its constitutional rights. The court ruled the city had restricted advertising based on content and that those restrictions did not hold up to \u201cstrict scrutiny,\u201d a legal test. Therefore, the city was found in violation of the company\u2019s First Amendment rights and was required to pay nearly $300,000 in damages.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Thrash-Ntuk encouraged residents to continue reporting Pinkys Girls trailer to police and via the GO Long Beach app to create a record of the nuisance. Some neighbors, though, have grown impatient and floated the idea on social media of taking matters into their own hands by spray-painting it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dozens of complaints from North Long Beach residents about a detached trailer advertising \u201cadult fun\u201d and \u201chookups,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-390987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}