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JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas – Investigators with the Johnson County District Attorney\u2019s Office conducted a coordinated enforcement operation with the Texas Department of Public Safety, Johnson County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Burleson Police Department, the FBI and other federal agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As a result of this operation, six people were arrested following the three-month investigation into suspected human labor trafficking in Johnson County.<\/p>\n
Multi-agency operation targets labor trafficking ring <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The arrests were made on charges related to engaging in organized criminal activity and racketeering, according to a news release from the Johnson and Somervell County district attorney\u2019s offices.<\/p>\n
Investigators observed large amounts of cash, luxury vehicles and other elaborate items officials said were consistent with money laundering.<\/p>\n
Naideng Jiang, also known as “Danny” was booked into the Johnson County jail on Oct. 2. According to jail records, he is charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and participating in racketeering or unlawful debt collection.<\/p>\n
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Wenquin Lu, also known as “Wendy,” was identified as a person still being sought in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n
31 potential victims <\/p>\n
Officials said 31 additional people were detained and interviewed as potential victims.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper:<\/p>\n
The case remains under investigation, and officials say additional enforcement actions could follow. The district attorney\u2019s office said it would not respond to additional questions or make further statements because of the ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n
Jiang\u2019s bond was listed at $500,000 for the organized criminal activity charge and $400,000 for the racketeering charge.<\/p>\n
What you can do:<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Johnson County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
People with information about human trafficking can also contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888 or visit HumanTraffickingHotline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article was provided by the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Texas<\/a>Johnson County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article JOHNSON COUNTY, Texas – Investigators with the Johnson County District Attorney\u2019s Office conducted a coordinated enforcement operation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,438,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-458627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-johnson-county","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458627","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=458627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}