As many as nine women were liberated from an alleged human trafficking ring involving four parlors in Detroit, Sterling Heights and St. Clair Shores Friday. A Chinese national is one of the arrests behind a suspected human trafficking ring involving Metro Detroit massage parlors.
As many as nine women were liberated in the operation which was a combination of local, state and federal cooperation. Asian massage parlors raided in connection with the ring were in Detroit, Sterling Heights and St. Clair Shores. FOX 2 - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the bust of a large-scale human trafficking prostitution bust involving at least four arrests involving four massage parlors in Wayne and Macomb County.
Between seven and nine women of Chinese and Korean nationalities were freed from the operation, Nessel said, involving the parlors located in St. Clair Shores, Sterling Heights and Detroit. The alleged sex trafficking operation is believed to be a part of a larger syndicate, she said. Also arrested was Huazi Piao, a year-old woman from China who assisted with the operations of the parlor and Ming Li, a year-old undocumented immigrant.
Among the felonies include money laundering for "washing" parlor earnings through extensive game play at various Detroit casinos. The fourth arrest involved American citizen Jon Villasurda, a year-old Clinton Township man who is alleged to have provided transport for women between airports and other parlors. Charges were also filed against Jin's boyfriend Oumar Lougue, 53, a non-citizen of West Africa believed to be Jin's business partner suspected to be a central part of the operation.
He is believed to be out of the country at this time. Two residences were raided with cell phones, business documents, bank records, cash and computers seized.
