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Article: 31 Arrested in Reputed Korean Sex-Slave Trafficking Along East Coast
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- The Washington Post
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- August 17, 2006
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Federal agents broke up a sex-slave trafficking ring along the
East Coast that coerced Korean women into working as prostitutes in
massage parlors and spas, some in upscale Washington neighborhoods
such as Cleveland Park and Glover Park, authorities announced
yesterday.
Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI
arrested 31 people Tuesday, including 19 in New York and four in the
District. They also raided 18 businesses, including one in Baltimore
and five in Washington, three of them downtown.
In all, 23 Korean women in Washington and 44 in New York,
Baltimore, New Haven, Conn., and Philadelphia were rounded up and
interviewed to determine whether they were ...