HUNTINGTON BEACH : Owners of Escort Service Arrested
The owners of an escort service that employed at least 60 women were arrested on suspicion of pimping after a two-month investigation, authorities said Tuesday.
The investigation began after an employee of Queen’s Escort Service in Huntington Beach attempted to prostitute herself to vice officers who had responded to the company’s ad in a local newspaper, Police Lt. Ed McErlain said.
Officers then served search warrants on co-owners Carolyn Sue Queen, 43, of Riverside and Roger Earl Crayton, 43, of Lake Elsinore and found evidence implicating them in prostitution operations in several Orange County cities, McErlain said.
Included in the seized evidence was a list of 100 male clients, McErlain said. Police have declined to release the names of the suspected clients and prostitutes.
Queen was arrested by police last Wednesday and Crayton turned himself in Monday, McErlain said. They were released on their own recognizance from Huntington Beach Jail, he said.
Queen and Crayton are expected to be arraigned Friday on 24 felony counts of conspiracy and pimping, McErlain said.
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