“Did the hotel staff leave them outside the rooms like newspapers?”
Some do send them up, but it costs extra, as these guys are finding out. Amazing. You are on duty in a foreign country, and do this? That is what R&R is for, if you must. They could as easily gotten their throats cut as . . whatever they did get.
It’s possible the guy thought he’d just met a “friendly local” and when he got her back to the room only then discovered that there would be a cost involved. That may very well be when he threw her out and the trouble started. A hooker who has just wasted time with a man who won’t be paying her might just lie about it to the local authorities. There is way too much we don’t know yet, and in the contact I had with the SS in years past I find it very hard to believe that the entire crew would have been that stupid.