Escort Business Searched, Kids Found
Sweet Addiction Advertised 'Unique Wild Girls (That) Will Fulfill Your Naughty Dreams
Cara Liu
Reporter, KPHO.com

POSTED: 8:37 pm MST April 28, 2009
UPDATED: 6:36 am MST April 29, 2009


PHOENIX -- Police said they found an escort service, guns and drugs at a central Phoenix business complex where young children were also living.

Police were initially called to the complex last Tuesday for a domestic violence incident. Investigators said Joshua Sparkman kicked out a woman's windshield.

They said after Sparkman and his friend Kenneth McCune showed them bogus identification, they began investigating.

Sparkman owns Sweet Addiction, which police said he admitted was an escort business.

Sparkman also lived right across the complex's courtyard, in another office unit.

When police searched the business and living quarters, they say they found guns and evidence of methamphetamine and cocaine for sale.

Investigators said an assault rifle was on the floor with a child's jacket on top of it.

"Really shocked. Definitely. I just didn't think anything like that was going on," said Marc Anthony, who runs a nearby business.

Other nearby tenants, who did not want to be identified, said they knew "something shady" was going on. They came to that conclusion after finding a business card for Sweet Addiction that read "our unique wild girls will fulfill your naughty dreams."

"It's incredibly shocking and scary. You don't realize something like that is right around the corner," said Anthony.

Sparkman was arrested on charges of forgery, identity theft, criminal damage and endangerment. McCune faces charges of forgery and identity theft.

Police said there could be more arrests, as well as additional charges of child endangerment. It was unclear whether there would be any charges related to the escort business.