Federal Agents Raided a Lexington Massage Business and Seized Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars. Public Records Reveal a Network Spanning Two Counties.

Corporate filings, property records, and online listings connect at least three massage businesses through a single officer — and a $253,000 all-cash property purchase with no mortgage.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When federal agents and Lexington police executed search warrants at multiple locations on March 31, the public got almost nothing: a terse confirmation from the Lexington Police Department that it had “assisted DHS / Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with the execution of several search warrants at multiple locations,” a refusal to say where the warrants were served or whether anyone was arrested, and a referral to HSI — which didn’t respond to media inquiries.

A week later, the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement saying ICE led the warrants, resulting in the arrest of “several illegal aliens including multiple for both criminal and immigration charges.” Agents seized “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”…

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