Houston pilot accused of running brothels

[WhiteTara]

Source: Houston Chronicle

A United Airlines pilot has been arrested and accused of running a string of brothels in apartment complexes throughout Houston.

Bruce Wayne Wallis, 51, was charged with aggravated promotion of prostitution and engaging in criminal activity, accused of running about a half-dozen brothel apartments with six to 10 women in each one.

Court records show that the women advertised online and had to pay Wallis $400 a week to ply their trade.

Assistant Harris County District Attorney Lester Blizzard confirmed that Wallis was a pilot for United Airlines and said the criminal enterprise operation was "massive."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-pilot-arrested-for-running-brothels-7012096.php?cmpid=twitter-desktop

[jberryhill]

1. Bruce Wayne? Of stately Wayne Manor?

[alcina]

6. Well it did have all those secret rooms.

To the Bat Brothel!

[jberryhill]

10. Yeah, but they had men in tights prancing around in them

[alcina]

11. I'm probably going to get in trouble for this

[leveymg]

2. District Attorney Lester Blizzard shoots down high-flying Batpimp Bruce Wayne Wallis.

What a script for a B-movie this would make! Faster Pussycat, Faster, Faster!

[ananda]

3. Batman? A pimp!!!

Yeedoggies

[SoapBox]

4. Massive???

Bloody hell...the crooks on Wall Street and virtually bringing down the world, that's massive and The BushCo. War Criminals invasion, that's massive.

People just wanted to have sex and a place to have it.

This not "massive"...Lester, go bust some Banksters or Enron types.

p.s...and this verbiage,

"the women advertised online and had to pay Wallis $400 a week to ply their trade."

Oh please!

One more,

"He said 19 women were arrested for prostitution. No clients were arrested, he said."

Of COURSE no clients (aka MEN) were arrested.

[PersonNumber503602]

14. Well, they did arrest batman.

[jimmil]

5. Fly the friendly skies...... N/T

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. Like this?

[KansDem]

7. "Airline pilot?" "Brothel?"

Remember this ad campaign? --

[eggplant]

8. Did he make bail? Isn't he a flight risk? :) n/t

[jberryhill]

9. I knew there was something funny about AirBNB

[chapdrum]

12. "...aggravated promotion of prostitution..."

Bet he's aggravated at being arrested.

[PersonNumber503602]

13. I always find it funny when they mention the day jobs that criminals keep

In this case it would make sense if he was a drug smuggler who was smuggling drugs during his flights. Or maybe if he was a cop with a brothel, and he used his police powers to benefit his business.

Bruce Wayne... hehehee

[sofa king]

15. The classic middle name.

Since the 1990s, Chuck Shepherd has been observing the strange phenomenon of the middle name "Wayne" and its relationship to crime. He keeps a list of murderers with that middle name.

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html

I would further observe that the old Confederacy, particularly Texas, is disproportionately represented in Shepherd's list.

Surely it is some variant of confirmation bias at work, though Shepherd makes a powerful observation when he says, "I suspect that aggressive-personality fathers during the 1950s and 1960s did in fact hopefully and disproportionately name their boys after that era's icon of ruggedness, John Wayne."

Never rule out weirdness, particularly in America, and particularly in Texas. Therefore another shoe may drop in this case, with the flying Texan pimp winding up with blood on his hands, too.

[JesterCS]

16. Quagmire is aka batman?! Omg n/t

Giggity

[Socal31]

17. As someone who makes a living looking at the income of people from all walks of life.....

A recent experience involving someone in the same position at the same airline makes me scratch my head as to why he would do this.