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Warrant issued for local tanning salon owner after girl complains

Man offers to pay to give 'naked massages'

The Bloomington Police Department issued a warrant Thursday for a local tanning salon owner for inappropriate contact with juvenile females.\nJeffrey Lewis Wright, 49, is a convicted sex offender and owner of Spring Break Tanning, 820 W. 17th St. Wright was arrested Oct. 16 during a traffic stop on warrant for voyeurism. The warrant was the result of a complaint Aug. 24 by a female employee at his tanning salon, said BPD Detective Sgt. David Drake, reading from a probable cause affidavit.\nThe female employee said Wright offered her $50 to let him give her a naked massage. The girl refused the offer, but when she went to tan later Wright asked her to tan in bed No. 3, she said. The girl refused but later discovered three holes drilled into the drywall leading to booth number three. The female employee said the holes would line up with the genital area of a person lying in the tanning bed, Drake said.\nShe also said she later saw Wright on his hands and knees looking through holes to bed three after a female customer went in.

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