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Former Ridgewood Deputy Mayor confessed that he sold phony massage therapy training certificates to women who worked as prostitutes in New Jersey , Police arrest 12 women

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Police arrest 12 women on prostitution charges in sweep of Bergen County massage parlors

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BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITER |
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Police have charged 12 women they say work at 11 area massage parlors with prostitution offenses, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal said Friday in a release.

The arrests followed a week-long undercover investigation and were made at massage parlors in seven municipalities on three separate days, Grewal said. He said that each person arrested worked as a masseuse and is accused of engaging in sex with customers.

Nine of the women are from Queens, N.Y., one is from Maryland and two are from Little Ferry, the acting prosecutor said. The arrests were made at four massage parlors in Edgewater, two in Fairview and one apiece in Wyckoff, Tenafly, River Edge, Little Ferry and South Hackensack.

The two women who reside in Little Ferry are Shunyu Pio Piao, 48, who worked at a spa in Little Ferry, and Mihwa Jang, 41, who worked at one of the Edgewater massage parlors targeted in the investigation, Grewal said, and the Maryland woman, Yougin Cho, 36, was arrested at a spa in South Hackensack.

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New York man indicted for allegedly operating a brothel in Paramus

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New York man indicted for allegedly operating a brothel in Paramus

DECEMBER 19, 2014, 5:46 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014, 6:32 PM
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A New York man was indicted this week for allegedly operating a brothel in a residential neighborhood in Paramus.

A grand jury in Hackensack charged Mei Zhi Zheng, 37, of Nanuet, N.Y., with promoting prostitution and transporting or possessing more than $2,000 believed to be derived from criminal activity.

The indictment said he promoted the prostitution of Feng Q. Liu by owning, controlling, managing, supervising or otherwise keeping a house of prostitution at 12 North Farview Ave.

Increased evening traffic to the home by men ranging in age from 20 to 50 prompted neighbors to alert police to the unusual activity. Police began surveillance at the small, pale blue house in August. Several weeks later, local and county detectives visited the brothel posing as johns and were allegedly offered sexual acts at the rate of $160 an hour.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/new-york-man-indicted-for-allegedly-operating-a-brothel-in-paramus-1.1172854