A Berkeley Township woman arrested last year for running a brothel out of a Toms River massage parlor has been spared jail time, according to the Asbury Park Press.
A Superior Court judge placed Nina X. Meng, 58, who an Ocean County grand jury indicted earlier this year for promoting prostitution, on probation for one year and fined her $155, the newspaper reported.
Meng pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 1, and at the request of the prosecutor, charges against Meng’s co-defendant, James M. O’Brien, 61, were dropped, according to the APP.
The newspaper reported that a joint investigation between the Toms River police, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Special Operations Group and the federal Department of Homeland Security found that Redwoods Wellness Center was soliciting prostitution.
A grand jury later concluded that the wellness center was promoting prostitution by “owning, controlling, managing, supervising or otherwise keeping a house of prostitution or a prostitution business," according to the APP.