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Confirmation: Chinese Nationals Involved in Seattle Sex Trafficking Ring
The seven involved in
this case who bear Chinese names are foreign nationals, certified
P.R.C. passport carriers, not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. And in at
least some cases, they are in the U.S. illegally (overstayed visas, snuck in
through Canada, dug a big hole through the Earth).
Other interesting tidbits from the
latest update:
- In telephone conversations between suspects and their customers,
the brothels were referred to as restaurants and the women as wines or
ethnic foods. Customers asked for “Kimchee” if they desired
a Korean prostitute, or a “Pho dish” for a Vietnamese woman,
court documents say.
- Kang, who is accused of operating brothels in Portland and
Seattle…used an online travel agency to book flights for prostitutes
to and from U.S. cities.
- Kesheng Zhu, 38, and Rujing Jiang, 36, a husband and wife
who operated an escort service advertised in the Seattle Weekly and The
Stranger as “Asian Girl — Outcalls Only — 7 days, 24
hours,” court documents say.
- Investigators used undercover informants, who visited the
brothels, and wiretapped suspects’ cellular telephones for several
months to crack the organization, according to court documents. They also
monitored suspects’ vehicles through court-sanctioned global positioning
tracking devices, court documents say.
My thoughts:
- They used an online travel agency to book flights for
the women? Can’t wait to find out which one! Maybe the
company can consider this a new “
vertical
horizontal market.”
- Undercover informants visited the brothels?
What, as paying customers?
- Wait a minute. They’re implying that ads for “escorts”
in Seattle Weekly
and The
Stranger were for prostitutes?!?!
Now that’s shocking.
“They also monitored suspects’ vehicles through court-sanctioned
global positioning tracking devices, court documents say.”
I can’t wait to read the transcripts for that one.
Then we’ll know for sure if any of those arrested previously worked in
China as taxi drivers:
Suspect is driving too slow in the passing lane. Suspect is now double-parked
in front of Honey Court Restaurant…. Still double parked…. Still
double parked…. OK, suspect has now merged back into traffic without
using a turn signal. Suspect is driving erratically, seems to be fiddling
with the radio, has now passed a line of cars by veering into the lanes of
oncoming traffic….
August 2006
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