I’ve noticed a startling new trend sweeping the nation. It’s not teens eating Tide pods or millennials ruining some outdated industry- it’s far more dangerous than that.
People are running brothels out of retirement communities with alarming frequency in the United States. This is almost as shocking as the logical conclusion that other retirees are probably their main customers.
After watching several older family members retire and face new kinds of financial hardships, I can kind of see where the problem comes from. Fixed incomes in an unstable economy can make for extremely tight budgets. With prices increasing faster than cost of living adjustments, some retirees may be forced to find other ways of making money.
Running a brothel out of your home can be a lucrative temptation and as one man from Ocean County, New Jersey found out, selling drugs from the same premises can be even more rewarding… until he got caught.
47-year-old Jason Scala was arrested after police discovered he was dealing cocaine out of his home in the Berkley Township retirement community. After residents complained about the high volume of cars visiting his residence at all hours, police obtained enough evidence to get a warrant. After he was raided they discovered he was not only operating a crack house, but also a brothel.
We previously read about a similar case where two men from Massachusetts were picking up drug addicts and forcing them into prostitution in a different retirement community. Not only were these men arrested for possessing drugs and promoting prostitution, they also faced some human trafficking charges. Given the similarities between this case and the one in New Jersey, could be facing an epidemic? Perhaps.
In addition to the prostitution and operating a drug house, Scala was also offering illegal tattoos. That’s three illegal businesses in one building!
I don’t know what line of work Scala retired from to end up in such a community at the tender age of 47, but it sounds like he was very industrious before turning to a life of crime. Maybe he has a political future in New Jersey.
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