Hooker hotel busted in Jamaica

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that six individuals – including three hotel staffers and an alleged pimp – were arrested this past weekend on prostitution-related offenses following the execution of a search warrant on a Queens hotel near JFK International Airport that allegedly served as a haven for prostitutes and their pimps.

QUEENS HOTEL RAIDED IN PROSTITUTION CRACKDOWN

District Attorney Brown identified the hotel as the Howard Johnson Express Inn, a three story, 71-room hotel located at 153-95 Rockaway Boulevard in the Jamaica section of Queens.

Although the NYPD had obtained a nuisance abatement order permitting the padlocking of the hotel, authorities chose not to close the hotel at this time due to the number of legitimate guests registered.

The hotel, however, was ordered not to accept any new guests pending a court appearance tomorrow.

District Attorney Brown said, “While the Howard Johnson Express Inn catered for the most part to business travelers and others, it allegedly also had a darker, more seamier side being run under the watchful eye of three of its staffers – a brothel catering to pimps and prostitutes, some of whom were underage and runaways.”