{"id":701163,"date":"2026-04-03T04:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/701163\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:24:12","slug":"bedford-woman-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-after-human-trafficking-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/701163\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford woman sentenced to decades in prison after human trafficking conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fujunzhu.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\"><strong>BEDFORD, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; A Bedford woman will spend decades in prison after police discovered a prostitution ring being run out of her massage business.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">A Tarrant County jury sentenced 47-year-old Fujun Zhu to 25 years in prison after she engaged in human trafficking at her massage business.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Bedford Police had been investigating Zhu&#8217;s massage business since 2023, where they discovered prostitution being conducted. Women were reported to be locked inside the business at night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">From 2023 to 2024, Bedford closed three of Zhu&#8217;s businesses.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">In 2024, a victim reported to police that she had agreed to work at Zhu&#8217;s massage business once it opened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Zhu then took the victim&#8217;s passport and all identification, telling them she would be required to perform sexual acts on customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this story came from the Tarrant County District Attorney&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/bedford\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bedford<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BEDFORD, Texas &#8211; A Bedford woman will spend decades in prison after police discovered a prostitution ring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":701164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,59010,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-701163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-bedford","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116338875963866020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}