An undercover San Francisco cop has been accused of paying for an X-rated act at a metropolis’s therapeutic massage parlor however claimed the go to was all a part of a police sting.
In June 2025, an alleged undercover operation on the Richmond Serenity Spa, involving San Francisco Police Division Sgt. Robert Glenn, discovered unlawful prostitution was allegedly happening.
The spa homeowners, Jing Huang and Liyan Wang, have appealed town’s determination to revoke their therapeutic massage license for five years, accusing Glenn of “outrageous” conduct and calling into query the alleged sting.
In a police report obtained by The California Submit, Glenn wrote that in 2025 he was a part of an undercover operation “to see if there was unlawful prostitution happening” on the spa.
Glenn stated that he entered the spa, requested for a therapeutic massage, was advised it will be $50 after which walked again to a room the place he waited for his masseuse, per the report.
He stated he requested the masseuse if he was imagined to get bare, who then knowledgeable him to undress. He wrote that he then laid nude on the therapeutic massage desk underneath a blanket the place she started the therapeutic massage.
At one level, Glenn stated he rolled over to the entrance and that was when the masseuse solicited him, signaling that she would give him a hand job. He requested how a lot, supplied to pay an additional $60 and she or he stated sure, per the report.
She then went to get oil, and returned beginning to give him a hand job, earlier than he stated he stopped her, gave her “the $50 remaining {dollars},” and left.
Glenn stated the entire incident was recorded together with pictures from the operation.
In July, the Division of Public Well being (DPH) issued a $7,500 in administrative fines in opposition to the spa “for solicitation of lewd conduct or prostitution and interesting in lewd conduct or performing intercourse acts.”
In courtroom paperwork, the proprietor’s legal professional Paul Horcher questioned Glenn’s account of occasions. He wrote that the allow revocation must be dismissed primarily based on the officer “who allegedly allowed a rogue masseuse to rub his penis with sizzling oil – conduct which,” in his shopper’s view, “constituted police additional time pay abuse.”
The homeowners additionally alleged that Glenn “made no detentions, arrests, didn’t determine the rogue masseuse or different witnesses, and didn’t notify the homeowners of the incident, thereby depriving Ms. Huang and Ms. Wang or their capability to research and mount a protection to counter DPH’s allegations,” solely studying a few month later.
The homeowners initally requested a listening to to dispute the revocation of their allow in August. In November a director’s listening to upheld the sooner determination that that they had violated the well being code which “prohibits lewd conduct and prostitution by therapeutic massage practitioners, together with fondling the anus or genitals of one other human” and that their license can be revoked for five years.
In a letter from Metropolis Legal professional David Chu final week — calling on the appeals board to uphold the November determination — town identified that the homeowners didn’t even “introduce testimony of the masseuse to contradict the officer.”
It additionally stated the homeowners claims of police misconduct within the case have been “unsupported by reality or legislation.”
It isn’t the primary time the spa has gotten in hassle. In 2021, SFPD raided the spa, accusing them of comparable allegations, when the spa was positioned throughout the road.
Information present, listening to officer Tinnetta Thompson, an legal professional now with the Division of Police Accountability, stated the homeowners have been “not accountable for the violations.”
Court docket paperwork additionally present that Richmond Serenity Spa seems on a number of grownup web sites.
The homeowners have denied that something questionable is going on at their spa.
On Wednesday the listening to went earlier than the San Francisco Board of Appeals who agreed that they wanted to listen to Glenn’s police recording and get a transcript themselves.
“The town has said that the division has not listened to the underlying audio recording. And neither has town’s legal professional workplace,” Board member John Trasviña stated in the course of the listening to.
“This implies to me, whereas it could be vital to the protection of the proprietor…the truth that they haven’t listened to it, means that they’re solely counting on the incident report.”
The board agreed that they should both learn or hear the audio earlier than they will decide. Additionally they stated they needed extra time to get a revised correct transcript of the November listening to as a result of what they’ve been offered up to now is unclear and “crammed with inaccuracy,” Rebecca Saroyan stated.
The board voted to proceed the listening to till Could.
The California Submit has reached out to the San Francisco PD and the proprietor’s legal professional for additional remark.
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