Man arrested for prostituting wife at massage parlor

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A Cedar City man who admitted to taking his wife to massage parlors to perform sexual acts for pay was sentenced in a Mohave County court in Kingman, Arizona, last month.

The defendant, 41-year-old Stephen Clair Hansen, a lifelong resident of Utah, appeared in Superior Court of Arizona in Kingman, where he pleaded guilty to a reduced class 6 felony charge of attempted pandering, reduced from the original pandering charge, a class 5 felony, as part of the plea agreement.Electric Massage therapy Bed

The charge stems from a felony indictment filed in Mohave County Sept. 27, 2018, after a multi-agency investigation into suspected human trafficking that authorities believed was taking place in several Asian massage parlors throughout the county – particularly Lake Havasu City, according to charging documents filed with the Arizona court.

Eight people were indicted during the months-long investigation, including Hansen, who was not considered a participant in the multistate enterprise. Instead, authorities say Hansen admittedly drove his fiancee, who is now his wife, to work at the massage parlor in Lake Havasu City knowing she would be providing sexual services, the indictment said.
Hansen was located by police on the afternoon of Sept. 20 when detectives and agents responded to one of the massage parlors with a search warrant. When they entered the business, it appeared to be open but unoccupied – until they kicked in a door and found a man alone on a massage bed.

During a search of the building, investigators found another man, later identified as Hansen, and a woman, later identified as Hansen’s then-fiance, Fang Fang Chen, in one of the back offices.

Hansen told detectives during an interview that he lived in Cedar City with Chen. He also said that due to the lack of massage parlors in Cedar City, Chen had to travel to find work at various parlors in Arizona and New Mexico. The couple had arrived in Lake Havasu two days before the raid and were staying at an apartment.

Detectives then interviewed the man on the bed, who told police that Chen gave him a massage, during which she performed a sexual act on him for which he planned to tip her $60-80. He also admitted to visiting the parlor four months prior, police say, and receiving the same services from a different woman.