'Java Juggs' owner pleads guilty to operating coffee-stand brothels [View all]
Source: Reuters
The owner of Seattle-area drive-up coffee stands that offered caffeine and sex acts and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in tips for her baristas pleaded guilty to felony charges of fraud and promotion of prostitution, the county prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
Carmela Panico, 52, must forfeit some $250,000 that police seized from her home last year and surrender her five coffee businesses in the Seattle area, the Herald of Everett newspaper reported, citing the Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
A paralegal with the office confirmed the plea deal but did not provide specifics.
“The business was popular,” an affidavit filed late last month in Washington state Superior Court in Snohomish County said.
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