Winter weather returns to western Washington this weekend with heavy mountain snow and the chance of lowland snow for parts of the region. SEATTLE — An investigation of various spas and massage parlors around Seattle resulted in charges filed Monday against two men and four women in connection with operating prostitution services, according to the King County Prosecutor's Office.
Xinzhong Wang, 67; Liuzhen Mou, 63; Ran Feng, 25; Wei Zhang, 49; Xiaohua Jiang, 31; and Lina Wang, 41, were charged with total of 12 counts of second-degree prostitution promotion through 10 businesses that offered sexual services authorities said in the investigation report were linked to the suspects.
They found prostitution was occurring at all spas and massage parlors being investigated. Investigators found 16 of the businesses associated with postings on "backpage.
The massage parlors were advertising in the "adult services" section of the site until it was removed in January The parlors then began to advertise under the "dating" and "services" sections, respectively under the sub-sections "women seeking men" and "massage. Almost all of the ads for each listed site featured nearly-nude Asian women in poses that the report said was inconsistent with "therapeutic massage businesses. Neighbors living above one of the parlors started to notice the suspicious activity of men going in and out of the parlors at odd hours.
Most of the businesses were also located on "rubmaps. Most of the reviews for the businesses included anecdotes of the sexual services customers received. While not all of the businesses received reviews, detectives said they went to the ones that didn't and received offers and agreements for sexual services in exchange for money.
