By entering this site, you acknowledge that 1. Court records seemed to indicate she is not already in custody.This website may contain nudity, explicit sexual content and adult language, you must be 18 years of age or older to enter it. Regardless, Zhang was expected to make her first court appearance on March 4. There was no indication Zhang was involved in any of the other suspected prostitution cases involving massage parlors in Waukesha, West Allis and Franklin during that same time period. Waukesha County District Attorney Susan Opper said she couldn't comment on the matter. Police weren't buying it, and they sought charges shortly thereafter.Īuthorities weren't clear on why the case took so long to bring to circuit court. Inside the vehicle, on a consensual search, police found bundles of cash totaling $8,500 in a large purse, and another $2,400 in Zhang's possession.Īccording to the complaint, Zhang later claimed the money that she was carrying was to pay the business' rent and to obtain new massage tables. The complaint also referenced an incident some time earlier in which Zhang was stopped while driving her vehicle, which had a defective taillight, on Greenfield Avenue.
With that information, police were granted and executed a search warrant in December 2017, in which Zhang was found in the room with a man whom the complaint said acknowledged he had just received a massage that included masturbation moments earlier. One of the informants positively identified Zhang as the masseuse who had massaged him inappropriately, according to the complaint. The reviews included 15 that referenced the Asian Massage and Reflexology business in New Berlin.
Police were also aided by a state Department of Criminal Investigations investigator, who provided online reviews from an erotic massage website. On one occasion, a second masseuse came into the room during a session, lifted up her shirt and at one point she put the patron's hand on her bare breast, the complaint said. Using two different informants over the course of many months, police verified the initial tip, with Asian workers improperly touching male patrons and then trying to "negotiate a higher payment rate" for services including masturbation, according to the complaint.
15 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with keeping a place of prostitution, a felony that carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.Īccording to the criminal complaint, the anonymous tip and a ad, one of which specified a service involving "hot new girls that change every two weeks," both referenced the same Greenfield Avenue address.
The tip was enough for police to do some some digging around, first scanning online sources, such as the now-defunct for illicit ads authorities had long linked to prostitution cases, and then coordinating with other agencies involving similar cases elsewhere in the Milwaukee area, including Waukesha.īy the time New Berlin had wrapped up its investigation in December 2017, police thought they had enough evidence to warrant charges against Jing Zhang, 56, of Chicago, identified as the operator of the business. It started in April 2016, with an anonymous call from someone who said he had been propositioned to pay for sexual favors, above the cost of a normal massage, at Asian Massage and Reflexology, 13827 W. NEW BERLIN - New Berlin police knew nearly three years ago that something was amiss at a massage business along one of the city's busiest roads.