She said ownership of the operation changed "about a year ago. Yujiao Zhan confirmed she owned the Jade Spa in Cape Coral as well as this spa on the upper level of a plaza on Davis Boulevard - both targets in the raid. in Naples: This site was still operating as a spa. She offered an emphatic "no, no, no" when asked if sexual services were offered there. The worker, who spoke little to no English and communicated with The News-Press through Google Translate, said she was new and unfamiliar with the raids. ♦ 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. 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. “So for three years, while they investigated, they left those women in there? There was no human trafficking.” “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. Watch Video: Video: Massage parlor bust suspects plead guilty
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