Esteticá Lucy shut down ...

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Agents raid supposed beauty parlor in prostitution crackdown

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Has anyone ever been here ... appears to have offered a haircut and a blowjob ...

Article from AM Costa Rica.

Agents raided an operation which offered sexual services but was disguised as a beauty salon, said a spokeswoman Wednesday.

The “beauty salon” was in downtown San José, on Avenida 12 between calles 13 and 15 and was called Esteticá Lucy, according to the Judicial Investigation Organization. It was a massage parlor that employed numerous women who are suspected of offering their sexual services to clients, said a judicial spokeswoman. Customers would simply drive up in vehicles and ring the doorbell, said the spokeswoman.

Prostitution is not a crime in Costa Rica but pimping and running a brothel are crimes.

Agents from the Judicial Investigation Organization arrested a woman who they suspect is the administrator of the operation. The suspect, Grace Vargas Mora, 34, lived in the adjoined house with her brother, said a spokeswoman.
No one answered the doorbell Wednesday afternoon however. A young man with a bag of groceries was seen sneaking quickly into the house and shutting the door.

Most neighbors refused to comment on the house. Workers at a store across the street said they had never noticed any strange activity nor had they ever seen a sign marking the place as a beauty salon. The only signs on the place now say, “closed by the Municipal Police of San José.”

Agents also detained two more women, a 22-year-old named Cháves from Nicaragua and a woman from Colombia, they said.

Both women were handed over to immigration officials, said judicial investigators.

There are a number of such massage parlors in the downtown area. Some more luxurious ones cater to expats and tourists. They are infrequently closed, but sometimes near major religious holidays police target one or a few such operations.