Nationwide Sting Operation Targets Illegal Asian Brothels, Six Indicted for Racketeering
PORTLAND, Ore. – A federal grand jury in Oregon has returned two indictments charging six people with running sex trafficking organizations operating in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The indictments were unsealed today following a series of arrests by FBI Portland’s Child Exploitation Task Force (CETF) resulting from a multi-district takedown operation on Tuesday, January 15, 2019.
Name: Zongtao Chen aka Mark Chen/Weixuan Zhou aka Marco Zhou/Yan Wang aka Sarah Wang/Chaodan Wang/Ting Fu
Country: US
State: OR
Arresting Agencies: 7
Arrested: 5
Rescued: 5
Date of Announcement: January 16, 2019
Arrest End Date: January 15, 2019
Comments: Sex trafficking & related charges
Docket: D-OR 3:18-cr-00559
Fed Indictments: 1