Overview

• City officials ordered Yellow Lilly Day Spa and Lavender Spa on Baldwin Street and Oriental Spa on Swan Street to shut down after Tuesday inspections.
• The latest action raises the number of shuttered establishments to five, following earlier closures of Beauty Garden Spa on Wallace Street and Eastern Bodywork Therapy on Hampshire Street.
• Inspectors reported unlicensed operations, evidence of people living inside commercial spaces, and multiple code violations including unpermitted construction, blocked egress, and unsanitary conditions, and referred the cases to police.
• Beauty Garden manager Suping Zhu was arrested on charges including deriving support from prostitution, keeping a house of ill fame, and trafficking a person for sexual servitude, while an arrest warrant is active for co-manager Yiuyu Huang.
• Officials say police will investigate additional locations, pursue potential charges against customers, and coordinate with local and federal partners to seek Huang’s custody and extradition.