The owner of a Methuen massage parlor was arrested Friday on human trafficking-related charges after the city shut the business down earlier this month, according to police.

Flushing, New York, resident Suping Zhu is facing charges of trafficking a person for sexual servitude, keeping a house of ill fame and deriving support from prostitution, Methuen police said in a Sunday press release .

Methuen police began investigating Beauty Garden Spa on Wallace Street after receiving complaints from residents about the business, the police department said. Officers obtained a search warrant for the massage parlor on Sept. 4 after a “lengthy investigation” that involved surveillance and undercover operations.

During the search, investigators found living quarters for two women in the basement

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