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The Seattle Police department arrested six people and rescued 26 women after a three-and-a-half year investigation into massage parlors across the city.
Officers worked alongside the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to serve more than a dozen warrants into an alleged human-trafficking network involving multiple massage parlors and spas in the Seattle area. According to police, these spas were sexually exploiting numerous victims from the U.S. and foreign countries.
One unmarked storefront in Seattle was known by people soliciting sex as "Magic Touch," Seattle Police Captain, Mike Edwards, said. He added that the massage parlor marked the start of the investigation that ensnared 10 additional businesses.
"It was a lot of men that were going in and out of the location," Edwards said.
Six people were arrested on charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering, according to Seattle Police Department’s Vice/High-Risk Victims Section.
"The traffic was extreme in all them," Edwards added. "It was a very large amount of money going through these places on a daily basis."
The 26 women were lured to Seattle from China with the hope of making money to support their families overseas, police said. The women replied to what they thought were legal advertisements, but when they got to the states, that turned out to be false, according to investigators.
Seattle massage parlors raided in human-trafficking bust; 26 women rescued, 6 people charged
The Seattle Police department arrested six people and rescued 26 women after a three-and-a-half year investigation into massage parlors across the city.
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