Masseuse arrested in spa raid claims cops made her clean overflowing toilet before dismissing her
BY John Marzulli
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Friday, June 24th 2011, 4:00 AM
Updated:
A masseuse claims she was forced to clean a toilet and then released without any charges.
A masseuse arrested in a Staten Island spa raid claims cops made her clean an overflowing toilet in the stationhouse – before releasing her without even a summons.
Mom-of-three Gabrielle Vignolini is suing the city and plainclothes cops who were apparently looking for illicit sexcapades at the Morounfola Beauty Spa last August.
Vignolini, 31, contends in a federal complaint that a week before the spa’s public opening, she was hired to give massages to friends and family during a dry run.
A plainclothes cop barged in and asked, “Can I get some?” her complaint states.
He was asked to leave but returned later with uniformed officers.
Vignolini says she was performing a “chakra rock treatment on a fully clothed female friend” when she and the owner were arrested.
The women were held for 22 hours in a filthy cell flooded by a clogged toilet at the 120th Precinct stationhouse, she claims.
A female cop told Vignolini she wasn’t leaving until she cleaned up the mess, the complaint says. She says she did and was cut loose, along with the owner.
“The Police Department and its officers are under tremendous pressure to keep arrest numbers up, and so we see a lot of these arrests have no basis,” Vignolini’s lawyer Mark Taylor [Editor’s Note: Mark Taylor was incorrectly identified as “Michael Taylor” in the NY Daily News] said yesterday.
A police spokeswoman said the district attorney declined to prosecute Vignolini for unlicensed massaging. Her lawyer says she has a license.
Republished from the NY Daily News.