The Inglewood Police Department said late Thursday that it has fired two officers who were the subject of an internal investigation into allegations that department employees had sex with female employees of massage parlors.
The names of the officers involved, and the number of other employees facing discipline, were not disclosed. Police officials were not available for comment. It was launched when several massage parlors and tanning salons in the city were the focus of federal allegations of money laundering and prostitution involving women smuggled into Los Angeles from Asia. That probe, which resulted in charges against more than two dozen people, led to allegations that Inglewood officers engaged in the sexual liaisons -- sometimes in uniform -- during work hours and off duty, according to several local and federal sources familiar with the case.
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