Nail Wars--Nail Salon Owner Says Rival Did Dirty Deeds to Stop Him From Opening New Shop: Police

A nail salon owner believes a business rival was the reason his tires were twice slashed after he refused to back down from opening up a new shop, police said.

Danny Minh Le, 49, reportedly met with an officer after all four of his tires were slashed.

“Danny explained to the Orland Park police that eight days earlier, he was intimidated by a rival competition nail salon owner and did not feel this criminal damage was random but that he was specifically targeted,” according to a Tinley Park police report.

The Orland Park police reportedly told Le to inform the Tinley Park police of the alleged underhanded activity by the other nail salon owner.

Le told a Tinley Park officer that a salon owner named Tuan Pham “had confronted his construction contractor at Brookside Marketplace because Danny was constructing a nail salon in the same mall,” police said. “Later that day … Tuan Pham approached Danny at his … store and told Danny they needed to discuss some things. Danny stated this was the first time the two ever met each other.”

Le and Pham “chose to go to Starbucks and while inside the Starbucks, Tuan demanded that Danny not open his nail salon in Brookside Marketplace, because it is near” another store, police said.

“Danny advised that the lease was signed and the work was begun, so he could not back out now,” police said. “Tuan kept intimidating Danny in a subtle way by mentioning that he ‘knows where Danny works and lives.’ Danny advised Tuan that if Tuan wanted to purchase the location, he would sell it. Tuan stated that he was not going to pay Danny for his new store and the conversation ended with Tuan very unhappy.”

While Le was relating this to the officer, he got a telephone call from his son and was told the back right tire of his 2013 Honda Civic had been slashed while the car was parked in the driveway of his Tinley Park home, police said. The officer then called Pham.

“Tuan stated he was in Chicago, had a ‘peaceful’ meeting with Danny eight days earlier, and had no idea why I would be calling him,” the officer said, according to a report. When the officer informed him of the slashing of Le’s tires, “Tuan denied any involvement,” police said.

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