{"id":165110,"date":"2026-02-14T23:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165110\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T23:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T23:08:21","slug":"adult-book-store-owner-allegedly-at-center-of-coordinated-multi-agency-prostitution-sting-across-dallas-fort-worth-sources-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/165110\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult book store owner allegedly at center of coordinated, multi-agency prostitution sting across Dallas-Fort Worth, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Multiple law enforcement agencies in North Texas on Friday coordinated the raids of a house in Plano as well as a number adult bookstores across Dallas-Fort Worth, all of which are allegedly owned by the same person, police sources told WFAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dallas police said the coordinated activity happened Friday morning across the Metroplex alongside other police departments and federal law enforcement agencies. A DPD source told WFAA the activity was a prostitution sting related to the Paris Adult Book Store, which is located on Harry Hines Boulevard in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Multiple agencies &#8212; including Plano PD, Dallas PD, IRS and DOJ officials &#8212; could be seen Friday at a Plano house on Coral Cove Court that is allegedly owned by the owner of same businesses raided by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sources did not provide the name of the owner of the home and the business locations raided by law enforcement, just that the locations were connected by their shared owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Charges being pursued against the owner include prostitution, trafficking and money laundering, sources told WFAA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Friday bust was the culmination of an investigation that had been ongoing for at least a year, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple law enforcement agencies in North Texas on Friday coordinated the raids of a house in Plano as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[67297,102,59983,712,54961,160,162,161,43284,67296,67295,126],"class_list":["post-165110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-adult-bookstores","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-pd","tag-dallas-fort-worth","tag-law-enforcement-agencies","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-pd","tag-police-sources","tag-prostitution-sting","tag-wfaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}