Crime & Safety

Plymouth County DA Denies Ignoring Complaints About Prostitution Ring at Local Spas

A former employee at Aria Day Spa in Brockton alleges that the Plymouth County DA's office "wasn't interested" in hearing complaints about an alleged prostitution ring run by Terry Mussari of Stoughton.

A former employee at Aria Day Spa in Brockton told FOX 25-TV that employees at the Brockton spa made complaints to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office about state troopers receiving “illegal services” at the spa, but the DA’s office “wasn't interested in hearing their complaints.”

This FOX 25 report comes on the heels of a Boston Herald report that federal and state authorities are looking into whether or not Brockton Police turned a to an alleged prostitution ring at the local spa.

Forty-five-year-old Terry Mussari of Stoughton pleaded “” to one count of in Brockton District Court on October 24 for allegedly running a prostitution ring at her three area

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“I know for a fact that some of the women went to [Plymouth County District Attorney] Timothy Cruz’s office and tried to make a formal complaint,” an employee, whose identity was concealed, told FOX 25.

District Attorney Cruz’s office denied the allegation in a statement released to FOX 25.

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“In July of this year, investigators from this office were contacted by a potential witness, and pursuant to those ongoing investigations, a referral was immediately made to investigators at the AG's office as well as the FBI,” the statement said. “No other potential witnesses have contacted this office."

Mussari owns Aria Day Spa in Brockton (on the Easton line), as well as Sparkle Day Spa in Canton (at the Cobb’s Corner Village Shoppes) and Spa Bellissimo in Norwood. All three spas have been shutdown.

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office at all three of these spas, as well as allegations that employees sold drugs to customers and to other employees. Authorities conducted a raid of all three spas on Oct. 22, resulting in the arrests of Mussari and 31-year-old Tiffany Burgess, of Raynham.


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