WARREN — A Trumbull County grand jury indicted 10 individuals and a business entity on more than 60 charges Thursday in connection with a human trafficking and prostitution operation centered at the Tiger Spa and Sunny Spa in Warren, according to court documents filed Thursday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The charges include trafficking in persons, promoting prostitution, money laundering, identity fraud, possessing criminal tools, obstructing justice and engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.

The defendants — Silver Mool LLC (dba Sunny Spa), Yeon Sue Crum, Suijin Yu, Youn Hee Yoon, Sunny Oh, Young Sug Kim, Tae Suk Hwang, Dong Meliodon, Miock Dong Schaffer, Suk Starr, Chang Hwang, Charles McGill and Kum Shugars — are accused of operating an enterprise exploiting Asian women, primarily Korean, in a sex-for-hire enterprise from January 2018 to May 2025.

The defendants are scheduled for arraignment over the next two weeks. Starr will be arraigned at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday before Judge Sean O’Brien. Court dates for defendants to appear before Judge Ronald Rice at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 14 will see arraignments for Crum, McGill, Oh, Yu and Silver Mool LLC (Sunny Spa). Schaffer, Shugars, Kim, Melidon, Hwang and Yoon will appear before Rice at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 26.

The investigation, launched in 2018, involved the Warren Police Department and Ohio State Highway Patrol, and spanned Trumbull, Mahoning and Cuyahoga counties.

The indictment states women were transported to Ohio, housed for months at the spas and compelled to perform sexual acts for cash, living on site with limited freedom.

Undercover operations between 2022 and 2025 detailed illicit activities at the spas.

Agents reported being offered sexual services for fees of $70 to $220, with cash split between workers and managers. Surveillance at Tiger Spa showed about 25 clients daily, generating an estimated $5,250 per day. A May 1, 2025, search warrant yielded $16,301 and $4,090 in cash, condoms, cellphones, a gray tablet and other items linked to prostitution.

The indictment includes 59 counts of money laundering, alleging cash deposits totaling $176,678 into accounts at multiple banks. These funds, derived from prostitution, were used to pay utilities, rent and workers.

An “Errand Man” facilitated banking, airport transport and supply runs. Forfeiture specifications target multiple bank accounts and $184,720 in cash.

Two counts of trafficking in persons, first-degree felonies, accuse Tae Suk Hwang, Charles McGill and Young Sug Kim of knowingly recruiting and harboring women for commercial sex acts between 2022 and 2025. Young Sug Kim faces one count of identity fraud for using Youn Hee Kim’s identity to rent an apartment in New Springfield. The enterprise allegedly used fake massage licenses from the city of Warren to mask operations, with defendants securing permits through falsified health affidavits and listing the “Errand Man” as a character reference. Tiger Spa, registered as Sky Enterprises LLC, changed statutory agents multiple times, with Dong Meliodon and Tae Suk Hwang listed as key figures.

The document states women were transported from New York, New Jersey and California, with surveillance at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport capturing the Errand Man shuttling workers, including Kum Shugars, who previously was convicted in Texas for managing an illicit massage business. Two counts of obstructing justice accuse unnamed defendants of hindering the investigation.