{"id":229244,"date":"2026-03-31T22:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:22:10","slug":"falsified-records-trafficking-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229244\/","title":{"rendered":"Falsified Records & Trafficking Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas regulators shut down a Plano massage school after uncovering falsified records and suspected human trafficking connections.<\/p>\n

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation issued an emergency order earlier this month to halt operations at Greater DFW International Massage Academy LLC and revoke its license.<\/p>\n

Investigators found<\/a> reasonable cause that the school violated policies by falsifying student records and maintaining ties between its associates and illegal massage parlors, some showing human trafficking signs.<\/p>\n

Students failed to meet the required education and attendance standards. The school allegedly kept students on rolls despite months without logged hours, issued academic credit before obtaining necessary permits, and accepted records claiming future attendance.<\/p>\n

These practices enabled individuals to obtain massage therapy licenses without completing required training, regulators determined.<\/p>\n

The order bars the school from all massage education services in Texas unless authorized to do so in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cMassage therapy is a respected profession that plays an important role in the health and wellness of Texans,\u201d said TDLR Executive Director Courtney Arbour, CBS News Texas reported. \u201cWe will not tolerate fraudulent conduct that undermines that profession or puts the public at risk. At the same time, we are committed to supporting students who followed the law and holding bad actors accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas regulators shut down a Plano massage school after uncovering falsified records and suspected human trafficking connections. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[88649,88654,88651,160,162,88652,161,15888,88655,88650,88653],"class_list":{"0":"post-229244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-greater-dfw-international-massage-academy-llc","9":"tag-human-trafficking-massage","10":"tag-massage-school-shutdown","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-massage-academy","14":"tag-plano-news","15":"tag-tdlr","16":"tag-tdlr-emergency-order","17":"tag-texas-department-of-licensing-and-registration","18":"tag-texas-massage-license-fraud"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}