{"id":232869,"date":"2026-04-03T03:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232869\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:40:07","slug":"bedford-woman-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-after-human-trafficking-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/232869\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford woman sentenced to decades in prison after human trafficking conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fujunzhu.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">BEDFORD, Texas &#8211; A Bedford woman will spend decades in prison after police discovered a prostitution ring being run out of her massage business.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">A Tarrant County jury sentenced 47-year-old Fujun Zhu to 25 years in prison after she engaged in human trafficking at her massage business.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Bedford Police had been investigating Zhu&#8217;s massage business since 2023, where they discovered prostitution being conducted. Women were reported to be locked inside the business at night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">From 2023 to 2024, Bedford closed three of Zhu&#8217;s businesses.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">In 2024, a victim reported to police that she had agreed to work at Zhu&#8217;s massage business once it opened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Zhu then took the victim&#8217;s passport and all identification, telling them she would be required to perform sexual acts on customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from the Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/bedford\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bedford<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BEDFORD, Texas &#8211; A Bedford woman will spend decades in prison after police discovered a prostitution ring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9031,1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-232869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-bedford","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232869","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=232869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}