US Busts Asian Babe Prostitution Ring

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SeattlePI: 9 charged in Asia-U.S. prostitution ring
Authorities said nine people were arrested Thursday as investigators broke an international sex-trafficking ring that smuggled Asian women into the U.S. in shipping containers. Seven conspirators in a "highly organized national network prostitution ring" were arrested in Seattle and two in Los Angeles, the U.S. attorney's office said. According to court documents, Yong Jun Kang, 36, of Seattle, operated brothels in Portland, Ore., and Seattle, where he and others would bring Asian women, most of whom were in the United States illegally...The women came from China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and Laos, and were forced to pay debts to smugglers by working in brothels, federal prosecutors said...more...