LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the arrest of a man facing charges related to human trafficking through his Hot Springs businesses at a Thursday news conference.
Griffin said Zengguang “Gary” Liu was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service and the Oklahoma City Police Department. While in custody there, Griffin said, multiple Arkansas warrants were served on him.
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Griffin said the warrants were related to a July 28 raid on three Hot Springs massage parlors as part of his office’s ongoing Operation Obscure Vision that began in January. Information gathered in the raids determined that Liu owned the three parlors.
Liu is facing felony charges of trafficking of persons and unauthorized use of another person’s property to facilitate certain crimes, the attorney general said.
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“In addition to gathering information that led us to the owner of the establishments, we seized about $16,000 in cash, including currency from China and four other foreign countries,” Griffin said. “We also obtained valuable information about how these establishments work and how the victims, who are forced to work as sex slaves, are being lured and transported to the United States.”…