In May 2017, a worker at Yuan Massage in Suwanee solicited an undercover Forsyth County Sheriff's deputy for a sex act.Detective Jennifer Bennett said both she and the accuser notified the state board about the case. Sams was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery, and police said they later received at least three other complaints about inappropriate behavior. Last summer, a woman told Roswell police that therapist Brian Sams inappropriately touched her at the Massage Envy on Holcomb Bridge Road.In other cases where licensed massage therapists made the news for alleged criminal sexual activity, state records show the board taking no public action, and Knowles said he can’t recall it issuing private orders in cases involving sexual misconduct: Knowles said he can’t comment on the handling of specific cases, noting that state law forbids him from releasing investigative findings. After she gave up her license, prosecutors dropped the charges. A year earlier, however, Toombs had been charged with pimping and keeping a place of prostitution after Roswell police raided Doshi Spa.
Pyong Ye Toombs surrendered her license in September 2014 with no reason stated. The AJC found one other board case in that time involving a therapist accused of sexual misconduct, although the board order doesn't reveal that. The action against BLC Massage owner Jianghong Wang, accused of abusing 13 women, came in August 2016, two months after he'd been indicted in Gwinnett County. The AJC found just one case in the past three years where the massage board used its power to pull a license from a therapist accused of sexual misconduct.