103 page indictment lays out case against alleged prostitution spas in Valley

A 103-page Trumbull County indictment includes 64 counts of alleged promoting prostitution, identity fraud, possessing criminal tools, trafficking in persons in commercial sex acts, forfeiture of property, money laundering, and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.
The indictment says the alleged criminal enterprise operated in Trumbull and Mahoning counties from 2018 to 2023.
The indictment claims a key function was to "entrap or keep Asian women at this location for three-month rotations," which included living, eating, and sleeping in each location while the women allegedly engaged in sexual activities for money.
The allegations - according to the indictment - say that the common purpose of the Enterprise was to "sell sex for money and other consideration by trafficking Korean women into the Mahoning Valley" from 2018 through March 2023, and then to allegedly launder the money.
The investigation into alleged crimes taking place included interviews with men who frequented the facilities, undercover work, bank records, phone records, financial records, GPS records, photographs, bank record analysis, witness statements, and evidence collected by law enforcement.
Young Sug Kim, Youn Hee Kim, Suk Hui Starr, Dong A. Meliodon, Jane Doe and Kum Cha Sugars were named as the owners or employees of the facilities listed as massage spas and spas.
A Joe Doe listed as Errand Man is listed as the person who did shopping for the site for food, supplies, and cleaning items, did bank drops for the business, took woman at the site to doctor appointments, picked up and delivered Korean women to the airport, travel to Rhode Island and New York to transport women, and obtain money orders for the establishment at various post offices.
The indictment named the following women allegedly connected to massage spa businesses, including Dong A. Meliodon aka Sara is listed in the indictment as the owner of the Tiger Spa in Warren; Tae Suk Hwang aka Jeannie was the permit holder and manager of Tiger Spa; Young Sug Kim aka Young Crazy who operated Tiger Spa and the Sunny; Suk Hui Starr listed as owner of Sunny Spa; Miock Dong aka Cookie allegedly did banking for Tiger Spa and also worked at 76 Tanning in Austintown; Young Hee Yun, Jane Doe and the Errand Man.
The Tiger Spa, which was located at 420 West Market Street, Warren, has since been demolished.
According to the indictment, sex could be purchased for $210 cash, which was split, with $70 going to the manager and $140 to the worker. The indictment claims that approximately 25 cars a day visited the location, which means the facility brought in roughly $1.9 million per year.
Sunny Oh received a massage establishment license for Silver Mool LLC, dba Sunny Spa in 2020; a massage establishment license was issued for Tiger Spa in Warren in 2018; Soon Sook Park was issued the massage establishment license for the Tiger Spa in 2020; Tae Suk Hwang was issued a massage establishment license for Tiger Spa in 2021; 14 of the 16 establishment and techician licenses from 2018 and 11 from 2020 list the Errand Man as a character reference; several of the Warren techician licenses include pictures of their passports, which their South Korean nationality; and several of the technician licenses included an affidavit of "physical exam" from a Campbell Medical Center stating the applicants were "free of communicable diseases" as required by the local ordiances.
The Enterprise allegedly conducted business activity in the following communities/or businesses:
Tiger Spa in Warren; a bank in Woodmere wher the Errand Man travelled and made cash deposits, a bank in Solon; Cortland; Austintown, a home in the 5700 block of Colgate Avenue owned by Yoon Soon Lee, where the Errand Man traveled multiple times for visits of less than five minutes, which where followed by trips to Jane Doe's house on N. River Road in Howland Township; the Errand Man also made mutiple trips to Sunny Spa owner Suk Starr's house in Howland Township on Pegotty Drive, which also named Tae Suk Hwang as listed as making payments at this address. The Errand Man was also listed as a spouse at this address, N. River Road in Warren. The Errand Man made short trips to this location, which is listed as Dong Meliodon's residence; Youngstown; Cleveland Hopkins Airport in Cleveland; Southgate; Flushing, NY; and New Springfield Township, where Young Sug Kim was residing.
The Errand Man made 72 visits to 14 US Post Offices, many on the same day. He also traveled to a Howland Township Walmart in a rental truck at least 62 times to purchase what the indictment said appeared to be groceries for those living inside the Tiger Spa. He also traveled and spent two days at spas in Southgate, Michigan, and two days in Saginaw, Michigan, according to the indictment.
The indictment lists 22 times the Errand Man was observed running errands for the Enterprise. He also had more than 1,700 communications between April 2018 and March 2022 with members of the alleged Enterprise.
The allegations - according to the indictment - say that the common purpose of the Enterprise was to "sell sex for money and other consideration by trafficking Korean women into the Mahoning Valley" from 2018 through March 2023, and then to allegedly launder the money.
21 News was told that the investigation into the activities and raids is not done, and additional charges could be coming.
