http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Nov/24/br/br9384276051.html Friday, November 24, 2006 Police are asking for the public's help in locating Kyong Ho Kim in connection with drug offenses. Kim is wanted on suspicion of promoting dangerous drugs in the first degree and promoting detrimental drugs in the third degree, according to police. Kim, also is known as "Korean Mike," allegedly is known in the Waikiki area for selling crystal methamphetamine and also has been arrested for other crimes related to his alleged drug sales, police said.
Police ask anyone with information about Kim to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on your cellular phone.
Nov 22, 2006 3:54 pm US/Mountain Prostitution Ring Ran From Glendale To Tech Center Brian Maass (CBS4) DENVER New criminal complaints and affidavits were unsealed Wednesday revealing women brought to Colorado from Korea were used as prostitutes from Glendale to the Denver Tech Center. CBS4 investigator Brian Maass first broke the story of the alleged international prostitution ring Tuesday night. The documents tell the story of a large, well-organized and profitable human trafficking ring that imported Korean and other Asian women to work as prostitutes all over the Denver area. After 6 months of investigation, a posse of federal and local lawmen stormed a house Tuesday in Highlands Ranch. They arrested Wai Kong and his wife Kit Chi Ho and accused them of transporting women for illegal sexual activity. A third woman was arrested in Thornton. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson, who spearheaded the initial investigation, said the ringleaders knew what they were doing. "We think it was fairly sophisticated in terms of the way they organized," Robinson said. "The fact they were able to bring in that number of legal immigrants to our community and have them involved in an illegal activity." According to the documents, the ring's operators set up brothels in apartments in Glendale, the Tech Center and Arapahoe County. Those brothels were staffed by women imported from Korea, sometimes under false pretenses. One said she was in the country on a student visa. They said they performed acts of prostitution to help pay the ringleaders from $8,000 to $18,000 for passports and visas that got them into the U.S.
The only way the fee can be paid is through acts of prostitution, with very little money from the acts of prostitution going back to the woman who is prostituting herself," Robinson said. The sheriff said the ring was apparently doing plenty of business. Male patrons told investigators they found the brothels through Internet ads and they told authorities what was going on behind closed doors. "It looked like they were pretty active," Robinson said. "We had quite a bit of surveillance that showed they had people coming and going pretty consistently." GPS tracking devices were placed on the suspects' van that showed daily trips to the alleged brothels and to Denver International Airport to pick up and drop off Korean prostitutes. The three people arrested in Colorado are scheduled to appear in federal court Friday for their first appearance.
in a Japanese restaurant owned by Koreans, with a Mexican chef, in an American city, it makes sense that something entirely unique would emerge.
お前が言うな! A Korean-American customer, Jeong Park, said Pina's food is the real deal. But as he scanned the tequila list resting on the sushi bar, Park couldn't help but rib his friend: "Are you turning this into a Mexican restaurant, man, or what?"
* Oct. 11, 2006 : 1. Met Mr. Leonsis, who is the vice chairman of AOL, in his office together with two truth council members, Mr. Larry Wu and Mr. Ao Wang. It was a promising meeting. Please see here for more detail.