[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The investigation—dubbed 'Operation Asian Touch'— saw federal agents pay for and receive at least 17 sexual acts from 'Asian females' across five months
- The sex-trafficking investigation began in May 2016 after Havasu, Arizona police received complaints that local massage parlors were offering erotic extras
- Internal ICE documents show the offices were given permission by their supervisors to go through with the sexual acts
- HSI (Dept. of Homeland Security) reports document instance after instance of an undercover federal agent telling a masseuse to 'masturbate him'
- In total, nine people would go on to be arrested in the probe, including two women on prostitution charges after performing sex acts on the officers
- The case collapsed in 2019 after HSI refused to identify the two officers involved
- All felony charges against the alleged ringleaders and workers were dropped, and sex-trafficking experts said the women were likely re-traumatized
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