Dallas police say they shut down an alleged illegal sex business, seizing drugs and cash. Two people face charges, while dozens detained were released.<\/p>\n
DALLAS \u2014 The Dallas Police Department (DPD) raided a business Friday, arresting two people and seizing thousands of grams of narcotics, officials said.<\/p>\n
Officers with the Special Investigations Division, the Place Network Investigations Unit and the Northwest Prostitution Task Force executed a search warrant at Spayse Studios on April 17, according to a press release from the department. Police call the establishment in the 2500 block of Manana Drive a \u201csexual encounter center.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to DPD, detectives determined patrons could pay a cover fee to enter the business to engage in sexual conduct, a violation of the city\u2019s sexually oriented business ordinance.<\/p>\n
During the search, police detained 48 individuals and seized 227 grams of marijuana, 671 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and 11,034.7 grams of THC hash oil. Police also recovered more than $11,000 in currency, multiple computers, hard drives and other electronics, as well as pleasure devices and a cargo van believed to be used in the production of pornography, according to the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n
Officers arrested Israel Luna, 53, and charged him with possession of a controlled substance over 400 grams, a first-degree felony; promotion of prostitution, a third-degree felony; possession of marijuana between four ounces and five pounds, a state jail felony; and operating a sexually oriented business without a license, a Class A misdemeanor.<\/p>\n
Luna declined to comment.<\/p>\n
42-year-old Marc Tuton was also charged with operating a sexually oriented business without a License.<\/p>\n
The 48 others who were detained were released and not charged with any offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas police say they shut down an alleged illegal sex business, seizing drugs and cash. Two people face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-258081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258081","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=258081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}