A massive Southern California brothel ring was busted by authorities, leading to two arrests, officials said. <\/p>\n
Detectives from the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Crimes Unit conducted a yearlong investigation into a brothel ring, according to a Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office news release. <\/p>\n
Kebin Dong and Wei Nie, both Los Angeles residents, were identified as the owners and operators of a sex services website, according to the release. Detectives found more than 30 residential and hotel brothels throughout California. More than 60 female sex workers were also found on the website. <\/p>\n
Dong and Nie allegedly helped schedule appointments at the brothels. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday and Thursday, detectives, with help from the Ventura Police Department and the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Task Force, executed search warrants at brothels throughout L.A. and Ventura counties. <\/p>\n
Potential human trafficking victims were also found at the locations and provided with victim services. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, Dong and Nie were arrested at their home in Hacienda Heights and booked on suspicion of pimping, pandering and conspiracy. They are being held on $200,000 bail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive Southern California brothel ring was busted by authorities, leading to two arrests, officials said. Detectives from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6577,84715,7,9,8,6873,2631,84716,8161,63,5848,9981,2429,31538,84718,2601,316,84717],"class_list":["post-178289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-authority","tag-brothel","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-detective","tag-help","tag-kebin-dong","tag-l-a-county","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-network","tag-search-warrant","tag-thursday","tag-ventura-county-sheriff","tag-ventura-police-department","tag-victim","tag-wednesday","tag-wei-nie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178289","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=178289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}