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♦ JADE SPA, 428 Del Prado N. in Cape Coral open, operating as a massage spa: A worker at this Cape Coral site pointed to a license on the wall and said the person listed, Yujiao Zhan, was the owner. Here's a breakdown of what happened to each of the businesses: A spa site in Tallahassee is now a law office. Two other locations reopened, one as a full-service beauty and nail salon and the other as a foot and body massage operation. Of the 13 massage operations raided, five, including one in Cape Coral and four in Naples, remain open as massage/spa businesses but under new ownership. The raids targeted spas in Naples, Cape Coral, Sarasota, Bradenton and Tallahassee. It allows prosecution and civil penalties for racketeering activity performed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.ĬONSIDER SUBSCRIBING TODAY: Help support local journalism The raided locations Passed in 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO as it is known, is a federal law designed to combat organized crime in the United States. She was deported to China by ICE in February. Jing Zhang pleaded guilty in 2018 to conspiracy to violate RICO and received 21 months of community control followed by 10 years of probation. Jun Lang and his wife, Jing Zhang, were also ordered to sell a home at 2355 Butterfly Palm Drive in Naples. He was given credit for the jail time served and released on probation. Jun Lang, in Lee County Jail since his 2017 arrest, was sentenced to two years in prison on June 4. Her brother, Jun Lang, pleaded guilty to conduct of or participating in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity use or investment of proceeds from a pattern of racketeering activity conspiracy to commit racketeering, and money laundering.
She is also not to work as a massage therapist or in the massage business. Xuan Lang also agreed to give up an active massage therapist license she originally obtained in July 2009 and which was set to expire Aug. She faces 21 months of supervised house arrest followed by 39 months of probation at her Oct. She pleaded guilty in April to one count of money laundering. Xuan Lang was charged with profiting from illegal activity, money laundering and racketeering. He also forfeited all assets and items seized by Florida authorities and the federal government and has been ordered not to work in the massage industry. He has accepted a plea bargain that will provide him two 36-month concurrent prison terms and 10 years of probation at sentencing on Oct. In Lee County Circuit Court in April, Jones pleaded guilty to conduct of or participating in an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity use or investment of proceeds from a pattern of racketeering activity conspiracy to commit racketeering, and money laundering. Jones is represented by attorney James Benjamin of Fort Lauderdale, who declined comment. Robert Neil Jones, 69, was arrested at the Kalaheo, Hawaii, home he shared with his wife, Xuan Lang, 49, who was also arrested in Florida during the operation.īerry represents Xuan Lang. But no human trafficking charges have ever been filed. Investigators from state and local police agencies spent months sifting through garbage, tracking cell phones, examining vehicle GPS data and speaking to men as they left the massage spas before they raided the places from Naples to Tallahassee in June 2017.Ĭourt documents repeatedly reference trafficking and that women working at these spas had moved from an area known as a human trafficking pipeline. “So for three years, while they investigated, they left those women in there? There was no human trafficking.” How it happened
“They said there was human trafficking,” attorney Jerry Berry said of those investigating the Operation Spa case. Naples man faces 36-month prison term, $460,000 expensesĪnd few of the more than a dozen arrested have been sentenced to any significant jail or prison time.3 main suspects in state-led massage parlor sting in Collier, Lee enter guilty pleas.All but one of those arrested in FDLE Operation Spa sentenced, dismissed or deported.Why high-profile sex spa stings don’t mean high-profile convictions.
It was billed as a statewide crackdown on human trafficking.īut what transpired was little more than a massage parlor bust of several family-owned businesses, the owners charged with racketeering and money laundering, their employees with prostitution and a range of other, minor charges.įive of the 13 spas targeted statewide during the Operation Spa crackdown by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in June 2017 are still open for business as spas.
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