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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities have arrested two Hacienda Heights<\/a> men accused of running a sophisticated commercial sex dispatch center that utilized more than 30 residential and hotel brothels throughout California.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n The arrests of Kebin Dong, 38, and Wei Nie, 40, follow a yearlong investigation into an internet-based platform that openly advertised illegal services.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Detectives from the Ventura County<\/a> Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Crimes Unit identified Dong and Nie as the primary owners and operators of a website used to facilitate commercial sex, according to authorities.<\/p>\n The operation was expansive, involving over 60 female profiles and dozens of brothel locations, including several within Ventura County.<\/p>\n SUGGESTED:\u00a0<\/p>\n On February 11 and 12, search warrants were executed at multiple sites across Ventura and Los Angeles counties<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dong and Nie were taken into custody at their home in the 16000 block of Chariot Place.<\/p>\n Both face charges of pimping, pandering, and conspiracy, with bail set at $200,000 each.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n While multiple women were rescued during the raids, the exact number of individuals trafficked through this network over the last year is still being determined.\u00a0<\/p>\n Investigators have not yet specified if additional suspects or “sub-dispatchers” are being sought in connection with the website.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The suspects remain in custody pending their initial court appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: This report is based on information from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Ventura County<\/a>California<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – Authorities have arrested two Hacienda Heights men accused of running a sophisticated commercial sex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1184,7,9,8,2042,100,1181,1226],"class_list":{"0":"post-178174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-crime-publicsafety","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-ventura-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}