By Tom Steele. An Irving mother and son promised to supply about two dozen women to an undercover Dallas officer as part of a prostitution business the pair were running, federal authorities say.
According to a criminal complaint filed in late October and unsealed this week, a Dallas police informant reported in August that Mendoza β then targeted in a drug sting β mentioned that his mother ran a "prostitution operation" in Dallas.
Police had the informant meet with Mendoza to see whether he could "procure at least eighteen girls to engage in commercial sex acts" with a group of businessmen who would purportedly be visiting town. At the Hooters in the West End on Sept. The informant met with Mendoza twice more in September, both times at the 54th Street restaurant on Market Place Boulevard in Irving, to discuss prices and whether the informant's supposed clients needed cocaine or erectile-dysfunction drugs.
The complaint says Mendoza noted that the price would include "doing it more than once. On Sept. Kim "offered to provide a karaoke room" instead, to reduce the price, the document says. An undercover detective accompanied the informant to another meeting with Mendoza at 54th Street on Oct. Kim took an envelope containing the money, the complaint says, and said that the informant could visit one of her spas to inspect the women.
In a recorded phone conversation five days later, Kim explained that she wanted the informant to meet the women beforehand so he'd know what they looked like.
