LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A poker participant is accused of laundering cash from an alleged unlawful brothel working out of a Las Vegas neighborhood, based on court docket paperwork.
Bing Du faces expenses together with pandering and cash laundering, data mentioned.
Earlier this 12 months, Metro police responded to on-line commercials involving suspected prostitution, officers mentioned. Over the course of 1 dialog, an undercover officer was supplied a therapeutic massage and intercourse for $200.
Police surveilled an tackle related with the net commercials, watching “men arriving to the residence and leaving after staying 30 minutes to an hour,” paperwork mentioned. The precise tackle, which gave the impression to be a residential house in Spring Valley, was redacted in court docket paperwork.
Information with the Nevada Secretary of State’s Workplace point out Du runs a enterprise tied to a house close to Desert Inn Street and Decatur Boulevard. The enterprise just isn’t licensed with the county, police mentioned. It was not instantly clear what number of residences are related to the investigation.
Police later situated Du, who they described as a “high-rated poker player,” playing poker in a tournament at a Strip casino. Financial records tied to Du showed her bank accounts “were primarily funded by cash deposits and peer-to-peer payments,” based on police.
Earlier this month, police searched a property related to Du, discovering “rooms [with] numbers on the door with multiple mattresses directly on the ground” and enterprise playing cards with the road, “Asian beauties for discreet gentlemen,” paperwork mentioned.
Police additionally collected trash, which they mentioned was related to the investigation, discovering “large amounts of used condoms” and “condom wrappers,” and different gadgets suggesting the residence was “operating as an illegal brothel,” paperwork mentioned.
In an interview with police, Du mentioned her tenants “were providing prostitution services” on the house and that she was paid to “basically turn a blind eye on what the tenants were doing at the residence,” paperwork mentioned.
Police suspect Du knew of the exercise on the house and profited from the prostitution companies, paperwork mentioned.
Du was not required to publish bond as prosecutors had but to file a legal criticism in opposition to her. She was scheduled to look in court docket on Nov. 18. An lawyer for Du was not listed.
A second individual faces comparable expenses for allegedly working the unlawful brothel out of the house.
Licensed brothels are authorized in components of Nevada. State regulation prohibits counties with greater than 700,000 individuals from having brothels. Clark County was house to about 2.4 million individuals as of the most recent census.
8 Information Now Investigator David Charns might be reached at [email protected].
