Massage parlors offering a wide variety of illegal sexual services are, as we’ve detailed in the past, common in the District of Columbia. In turn, investigating such parlors is hardly new territory for the undercover units of the Metropolitan Police Department. But are undercover cops getting a little too close for comfort while covertly soliciting sex workers? A report in the Washington Times suggests they might be.

According to this report by Times reporter Jim McElhatton, court documents state that an undercover officer who was building a case against Jasmine Therapy, located on the 1800 block of M Street NW, was instructed to lay down in a shower room, at which point a woman “proceeded to scrub [the officer’s] body to include the genital area.” Later, the officer agreed to pay the woman for oral sex, at which point he made up an excuse and left. Another officer similarly received a shower rubdown, but also left before engaging in sexual intercourse with a masseuse. Later, police raided the parlor, where they found $70,000 in cash “hidden in lotion dispensers with false bottoms, and hidden condoms.”

Obviously, undercover work often requires police to bend the law in order to get the evidence they need. But MPD still doesn’t sound thrilled about their officers potentially getting naked, soapy massages while on duty.