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.

An undercover sting operation resulted in two arrests at M Street Spa downtown yesterday. Police charged a woman working at the spa with soliciting prostitution and arrested a man for the unlawful operation of a massage parlor — essentially for operating a house of prostitution. No one is answering the telephone at M Street Spa, which is located at 1829 M Street NW on the third floor….