These three women were arrested at a house on Bersaglio Street Marwa Maiwand Nonette Stock Joan Yslas Click image for enlargement.

Siena is an upscale community with plenty of amenities.

The 55-and-older gated community in the west valley features homes valued at up to $1.2 million with large yards for gardening. There's an 18-hole golf course and a clubhouse with regular card games, exercise machines and concerts.

Las Vegas police say an amenity you won't find in the Siena sales brochures was being offered out of one home in the community. Vice officers on Thursday busted a brothel in the community, claiming its prostitutes were soliciting customers on the links of the Siena Golf Club, according to Las Vegas police Lt. Curt Williams.

"We are proud of all of the great activities in our community -- but not that one," said Skip O'Donnell, president of the Siena Community Association.

Three women were arrested at a house at 4565 Bersaglio St. in one of several recent prostitution busts in wealthy valley neighborhoods.

Joan Yslas, 47, who police accuse of being the brothel's owner and operator, was charged with keeping a house of prostitution, trafficking cocaine and the sale of a controlled substance. Marwa Maiwand, 22, and Nonette Stock, 44, were charged with soliciting prostitution. Stock was also charged with possession of marijuana.

Police claim that Yslas posed as a photographer at Siena's golf course, which is open to the public, in order to attract clients to her house nearby. There, police said, sexual acts and cocaine were for sale. The clientele, who Williams said were probably not neighborhood residents, would pay $1,000 for sexual favors, according to police.

About a month ago, police received a tip that there was some unusual activity at the residence, Williams said.

Officers went to the house at 10 p.m. Wednesday and were solicited to pay for sex, Williams said. Yslas also sold officers $200 worth of cocaine, and about 30 grams of cocaine was found at the apartment, Williams said. The officers then identified themselves and arrested the three women.

Police said they don't know how long the brothel was operating or how many prostitutes worked at the house.

Most neighbors in the community didn't have any suspicions about the house, Williams said. The women kept a low profile, he said.

Quentin Agard, who lives next door to the suspected brothel, said besides a few cars coming and going, he never noticed anything out of the ordinary.

"I'm just shocked," he said. "I had no idea what was going on. This is a pretty quiet neighborhood."

Thom Blinkinsop, director of golf at Siena Golf Club, said the organization doesn't believe any solicitation occurred at the course. Management knows all of the photographers on the grounds and never received any reports of solicitation, he said.

Retired golfers aren't "their kind of clientele," said O'Donnell, who speculated the solicitation took place at other courses.

But Williams said the vice squad only has evidence of solicitation occurring at the Siena golf course. He said he suspects that "younger golfers" were the clients.

O'Donnell said he received numerous phone calls from surprised Siena residents on Friday, but he doesn't expect there to be much of a controversy over the bust.

"It's easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback, but really I don't think there's anything we could have done to stop this," he said.

Yslas shouldn't have been able to buy a home in the community, since she was only 47, O'Donnell said. But she purchased the residence for $250,500 in December 2000, before the age rule was enforced.

There was also nothing the community could do about brothel clients entering its gates because their names were left on guest lists, O'Donnell said.

In the past month, Las Vegas vice officers have made several prostitution arrests in upscale neighborhoods.

Officers arrested suspected prostitute Naomi Pounders, 31, in a northeast valley neighborhood on Midnight Cowboy Court on June 27. Police also arrested three women at a suspected brothel in a condominium near Spring Mountain Road and Arville Street on July 12.

Williams said in most of these cases residents are shocked to find a brothel in a nice neighborhood.

"People are sometimes naive about the neighborhood they live in," he said. "These things can happen anywhere."