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Tulsa PD takes down prostitution ring in “Operation Velvet Fury”

1:47 PM EDT on October 14, 2019

It's a little more challenging to be a desperate john in Tulsa.

Last week, law enforcement officials announced the results of a prostitution sting called "Operation Velvet Fury."

Via Fox 25…

TULSA, Oklahoma - Tulsa County District Attorney's Office and the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office announced on Friday the results of an ongoing investigation into illicit massage businesses. The joint operation, called "Operation Velvet Fury," targeted people running what are alleged to be fronts for prostitution - and websites used by the businesses.

Tulsa Police and a task force of local and state agents started making arrests Thursday in a year-long investigation of prostitution. Their work centered on use of an online scheduling system that connected the leaders of the group with customers. Police say they have identified several hundred women involved in prostitution, and many hundreds of men who paid for their services.