According to the Imlay City Police Department, Anthony Joseph Juip, 72, and his wife Qing Feng Xu, 58, are charged with conducting a criminal enterprise and keeping a house of prostitution. A woman allegedly escaped from a residence in northern Michigan on Friday where she claimed she was being forced into prostitution.
The Michigan State School of Criminal Justice director says the ads don't directly advertise prostitution. A Michigan prosecutor said Tuesday he will resign from office after being charged with hiring prostitutes hundreds of times and paying for sex with a woman who wanted help in a child custody dispute.
A sentence of 90 months in federal prison followed by 10 years on supervised release is being recommended. A year-old woman accused of running a prostitution ring in Ann Arbor has accepted a plea deal.
The teenager could end up spending the next 20 years in prison for her role in a local sex-trafficking ring. Those arrested for buying or selling sex in Flint may now find their names and faces plastered all over social media.
The unit, which was disbanded a year ago due to budget cuts, was revived as a pilot program. A Michigan man has been convicted of sex trafficking for allegedly bringing a woman and two teens to a suburban Chicago hotel to prostitute. Authorities in Macomb County have arrested four men on charges of solicitation after two separate investigations.
