Month: December 2019

Youth service project benefits homeless

Community policing officers joined with a youth group at Sunset Hills Christian Church recently to pack care kits for the homeless. (Photo from Anne Porter, Sunset Hills Christian Church)

The youth group at Sunset Hills Christian Church, 6347 Leavenworth Road, recently joined with some community policing officers to pack homeless care kits.

The youth sought contributions from the congregation to fill the bags with needed items that can be distributed by police officers who may encounter homeless persons, according to the group’s sponsor, Anne Porter.

Such items as water, gloves, socks and handkerchiefs are in the kits, she said. About 30 items were in each kit.

Police officers brought other items, from another source, including blankets and large handbags with handles to carry the items.

Officers Jackie Lynn, Steve Kopp and Carl Rowland participated in the effort.

Porter said there were about 30 homeless care kits assembled on Dec. 8 that will be distributed to homeless persons.

Gloves, socks, handkerchiefs, water and other items went into care kits for the homeless that were packed recently at Sunset Hills Christian Church. Community policing officers and a youth group assembled the items. (Photo from Anne Porter, Sunset Hills Christian Church)
Community policing officers joined with a youth group at Sunset Hills Christian Church recently to pack care kits for the homeless. (Photo from Anne Porter, Sunset Hills Christian Church)
Community policing officers joined with a youth group at Sunset Hills Christian Church recently to pack care kits for the homeless. (Photo from Sunset Hills Christian Church)

Overland Park woman who ran massage parlors indicted

An Overland Park, Kansas, woman is scheduled to appear in court this week on a federal interstate prostitution charge, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.

Chunqui Wu, 61, Overland Park, Kansas, is charged with one count of transportation with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.

An indictment alleges Wu owned or operated three massage parlors: Alpha Massage at 116 S. Clairborne, #A, in Olathe, Kansas; A Plus Massage at 527 N. Mur-Len Road, in Olathe, Kansas; and King Spa at 13104 State Line Road in Leawood, Kansas.

Documents filed in federal court say investigators worked with an undercover confidential source who contacted Wu and asked for a job working in Wu’s massage parlors.

An investigator’s affidavit alleges Wu made statements indicating she allowed her employees to perform sexual services for tips. Other investigators working undercover confirmed that employees in Wu’s massage parlors were offering sexual services to customers.

Wu was arrested when she went to the Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Missouri, to meet the undercover confidential source and transport her back to Kansas to work in one of Wu’s massage parlors.

Wu is scheduled for an arraignment Dec. 20 in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas.

If convicted, Wu could face up to 10 years in federal prison. The Olathe Police Department and the FBI investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Flannigan is prosecuting.