Search warrant in spa case disputed
COOKEVILLE — Two women charged with prostitution during a police raid of a Cookeville massage parlor last year are now claiming that evidence seized in the case against them was the result of an illegal and improper search warrant. Lawyers for Mee Chung Sung, 49, Suwanee, Ga., and Miae Lim, 44, Flushing, N.Y., filed a motion in Putnam County General Sessions Court earlier this month asking to suppress all evidence seized in the September raid of the MVP/Rainbow Therapy Spa on Interstate Drive. A hearing in front of Judge John Hudson has been set for March 31.
In the motion, Shawn Fry, who is representing Lim in the case, and Wesley Thomas Bray, representing Sung, are pushing two main points — one, that the confidential source, referred to as “Vallejo” in the search warrant affidavit, did not have a proven basis of credibility, and, two, that money laundering activities allegedly occurring along with the prostitution are without fact. Vallejo, the affidavit says, has been a conf …
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