Bond set at $100K for man arrested in massage parlor investigation - KWTX

[massage]

WACO, Texas (KWTX) Bond is set at $100,000 for a man arrested as McLennan County investigators raided another Waco massage parlor in an ongoing human-trafficking probe.

Ren Quan Zheng., (Jail photo)

Ren Quan Zheng, 55, is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity.

McLennan County deputies served warrants Thursday morning at the Sun Orchid Spa at 4716 West Waco Dr.

Simultaneously other deputies served warrants at an apartment complex in the 5000 block of Sanger Avenue and took the spa's manager into custody.

Deputies seized a total of $43,000 in cash in the simultaneous raids, McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said.

Two women were in the business at the time of the raid.

They were living in a sparsely furnished apartment inside the business, sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor.

They won't be charged, authorities said.

“This is clearly a human-trafficking case,” McNamara said.

Representatives of the anti-human trafficking group UnBound were also at the scene, serving as translators.

The two spa employees don’t speak English, authorities said.


McNamara declined to comment on whether security cameras were in use at the spa that might provide images of clients.

The business is in a strip shopping center at the intersection of West Waco Drive and Towne Oaks Drive.

Martin Audiology is next door to the spa.

Owner Dr. Melodie Martin said the raid caught her and her staff by surprise.

“I walked up to the lobby to get another patient and we saw sheriff’s deputies and what looked like undercover officers with heavy gun power. It kind of shocked us.”

Let's block ads! (Why?)