Peter Griffin, who retired from the department in 2002, entered his guilty plea in federal court, along with three co-defendants, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
The 78-year-old helped run five illicit parlors in California and Arizona from 2013 through August 2022, the US Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
Using experience and knowledge tied to his past police job, Griffin helped the businesses avoid law enforcement and regulatory inspections while maintaining the façade of legitimacy as they flew under the radar, prosecutors said. Peter Griffin — formerly of the Vice Operations Unit with San Diego police — helped run five illicit parlors in California and Arizona from 2013 through August 2022.He and the other defendants expected employees to perform commercial sex work inside the businesses, the feds said.
“The defendant – a former vice detective who once took an oath to uphold our laws – knew more than most that illicit massage businesses cruelly profit by exploiting women for commercial sex,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement.
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