2 from Queens charged in LI prostitution case

BY JOSEPH MALLIA | joseph.mallia@newsday.com

Two men and a woman were arrested on prostitution charges at a Huntington Station house Wednesday night after an investigation and surveillance by Second Precinct officers, police said.

Henry Monzanarez, 27, of 67 East Third St., Huntington Station, and Jaime Garcia, 33, of 33-28 29th Ave., Astoria, were charged with promoting prostitution.

Monzanarez was also charged with false personation, criminal possession of a weapon, obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest. The third suspect, a 34-year-old Queens woman, was charged with prostitution.

Second Precinct Crime Section officers executed a search warrant at 110 Lenox Rd. at 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, seizing money, condoms and other prostitution-related items.

The three suspects were to be arraigned Thursday in First District Court, Central Islip.