Sex TraffickingArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking in San Mateo, California (2006)

A sex trafficking case from 2006 in San Mateo, California, United States.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

Xiao Feng Shen, 35, of San Jose, Jia Jing Chu, 34, of San Jose, Ai-Ching Chang, 45, of Sunnyvale, Yan Song, 42, of San Jose, and Ming Sun, 32, of San Jose plead guilty to maintaining several residential brothels harboring Asian women who were being sold for sex.

Response and intervention

After federal raids last October, officials detained 31 women and interviewed them to determine if they were sex trafficking victims forced to work against their will. Federal investigators from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service discovered the ringleaders.

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Police entered a hotel room to find a 19-year-old girl in only a bra and underwear. The girl claimed that Armstrong was forcing her to prostitute herself. Armstrong was arrested.

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Sex Trafficking1996

San Mateo, California, United States, 1996

United States US

As a part of an effort to decrease human trafficking in San Mateo the San Mateo police force shut down three "massage parlors" that were acting as fronts for illegal brothels. The buildings were owned by Michael and Ty Thi D'Agostino and the D'Agostino Family Trust. Over the past several years, police said they made 12 arrests for prostitution at Kahala, eight at Asian Gardens and 14 at Bay Relaxation. At a raid of the businesses in January, police said they found stacks of condoms, sent customers and employees scurrying for clothing and broke up a sex act.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016