Police: Man Got Massage, Robbed Spa Employees

Posted: 7:39 am EDT September 9, 2010

Updated: 8:53 am EDT September 9, 2010

DALTON, Ga. -- Dalton police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who held employees of a massage parlor at gunpoint and robbed them – after he got a massage. 

Dalton police said the robbery happened at 10 p.m. at the GQ Spa on Chattanooga Road on Tuesday. 

Officials said the man received a massage and after it was over, he produced a semi-automatic handgun and demanded money from the three women who were working. Police said he got $140 in cash. 

Before he left, he tied the women up with plastic zip ties and gagged them with white masks, police said. Officials believe the robber left on foot. 

The robber is described as a black male, between 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet 2 inches tall with balding hair and a short, thin beard. 

He was wearing a white Hawaiian-type shirt with floral print and a white floppy hat with dark stripes during the robbery, police said.