A San Jose family was charged with operating a network of brothels that trafficked dozens of women and generated about $1 million a year, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege Joseph and Binghua Bresee, a married couple, ran at least 10 commercial sex brothels across Santa Clara County under the guise of massage parlors, with locations in San Jose, Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Cupertino and Mountain View.<\/p>\n
One of their adult children, Jiabao Huang, was also charged, and another co-conspirator was arrested on suspicion of laundering money for the operation. In total, the defendants face 26 felony counts including conspiracy, pimping, money laundering and tax fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said that at their Dec. 5 arraignment, a judge set bail for the three main defendants \u2014 Joseph Bresee, 77; Binghua Bresee, 52; and Huang, 30 \u2014 at $1 million each. All face prison time if convicted. Investigators have seized or frozen more than $1.25 million in alleged illegal proceeds.<\/p>\n
The investigation \u2014 dubbed Operation Family Ties \u2014 involved DA investigators, the FBI and multiple local police departments. Authorities began looking into the case in June when a Morgan Hill police officer became suspicious after a defendant tried to open a massage parlor using another person\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
The probe later uncovered a brothel tied to the group in Hayward. The operation culminated in a coordinated series of search warrants and arrests on Dec. 3. Authorities said 18 workers were recovered during the searches, and more than 40 women were identified over the course of the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trafficking of human beings has no place in our community, or any other,\u201d District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement released Thursday. \u201cModern slavery is morally and legally wrong and will be met with no toleration and \u2014 as you can see by the agencies cooperating in this operation \u2014 the strictest legal accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone needing help related to human trafficking in Santa Clara County can call the county\u2019s 24-hour confidential hotline at (877) 363-7238. Tips to law enforcement can be directed to (408) 792-2700 or httips@dao.sccgov.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose family was charged with operating a network of brothels that trafficked dozens of women and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[723,186,187,348,193,194,26079,1492,88,90,89,881,52239,26468],"class_list":{"0":"post-95064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-cupertino","10":"tag-gilroy","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-morgan-hill","13":"tag-mountain-view","14":"tag-prosecution","15":"tag-public-safety","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-headlines","18":"tag-san-jose-news","19":"tag-san-jose-spotlight","20":"tag-santa-clara-county-district-attorneys-office","21":"tag-sex-trafficking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95064","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=95064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}