June 16 Toronto Twenty-three […]

When

1981-06-16

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June 16 Toronto Twenty-three plainclothes officers from Metro Toronto Police conducted simultaneous afternoon raids on two bathhouses. They raided the International Steam Bath, 458 Spadina Avenue, and charged the attendant, Joseph Soucy, with keeping a common bawdy house; owner Michael Woszczyna was charged later (his trial began February 1, 1982). Ten men were charged as found-ins. Police also arrested eleven men (three as keepers, eight as found-ins) in a raid of the Back Door Gym and Sauna, 12½ Elm Street. Police admitted the bathhouses had been under surveillance since August 1980. On March 26, 1982, a Provincial court judge found Alan Fetterly, the owner of the Back Door, guilty of keeping a common bawdy house and fined him $3,000. Two other men were given conditional discharges. (See also June 20, 1981.)

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