{"id":164413,"date":"2025-06-07T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164413\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T01:30:10","slug":"man-charged-with-managing-two-brothels-following-west-midlands-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164413\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with managing two brothels following West Midlands arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhong Wang aged 53, was arrested after being stopped by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlands.police.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Midlands Police<\/a> officers on Gooch Street, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a>, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Officers made the arrest after acting on a number of enquiries around the area, now charging with running two brothels in Sutton Coldfield and Erdington, as well as controlling prostitution for gain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox with the Express &amp; Star\u2019s free newsletter<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wang appeared before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/crime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham Magistrates Court<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>A West Midlands Police spokesperson said: &#8220;We\u2019ve charged a man with managing two brothels after officers from Operation Fearless stopped a car in Birmingham\u2019s Southside area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The charge is part of Operation Fearless, which arrived in Southside last month to target everything from violence, drug dealing and anti-social behaviour to organised crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wang was also charged with possessing criminal property after the recovery of \u00a35,000 in cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zhong Wang aged 53, was arrested after being stopped by West Midlands Police officers on Gooch Street, Birmingham,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,379,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-164413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-local-hubs","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114639498314379406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}