Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog

One of TBO’s “Most Viewed” on Wednesday included a story about Largo Police busting fake massage therapists.

Apparently three young folks advertised their services in the “e rotica” category on Craigslist. For a small fee, you could get a massage, and the bonus is that your masseuse would also be completely unclothed. Kinnn-keee, huh?

The problem is that none of the three were licensed health care professionals.

So Largo Police conducted a highly sensitive undercover operation to oust these dangers to society, and set out to learn just what the heck was going on. Alas, the cops only went “all the way” with only two of the three offenders. It seems that the super-secret operation was suspended with 33% of the work left to do. Read on, friends, with my emphasis on the action phrases:

Brooke Lindsey Tatman, 20, of Seminole… performed the massage in the nude on the undercover detective, according to an arrest affidavit.

Also arrested was Jude Dentici, who arrest affidavits say also performed a massage on an undercover detective while nude.

The third person arrested was Robert “Dickie” Lamert, 22, arrest affidavits state. He offered to massage an undercover detective…

The article doesn’t really explain why Brooke and Jude had to go through with their performances on the undercover (heh) detective, while “Dickie” just had to make the offer.

Sure, there’s the argument that the cops could be out arresting “real” criminals. But then how would they get their free massages - performed by (only the right kind of) na ked people?

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