A 60-year-old female Chinese national will stand trial for allegedly engaging in human trafficking through the operation of multiple Detroit-area massage parlors.
According to a Jan. 7 announcement by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Huazi Piao was arrested in December 2024 for allegedly conducting “commercial sex operations” in at least two massage parlors in Wayne County.
Nessel said the arrest was the result of an investigation launched last summer into an alleged international human trafficking ring that eventually “led to the liberation of several women from the horrors they endured.”
Investigators from the Department of Homeland Security, Michigan State Police, and the St. Clair Shores Police Department, as well as several other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, cooperated with prosecutors from the Michigan Attorney General’s office in carrying out the successful bust and indictment, Nessel said….