A woman charged with human trafficking after a massage parlor sting in Lafayette last year has been extradited from New Jersey after fleeing while on bond last fall. Ou, a Chinese citizen, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in New Jersey in November after leaving Lafayette while on bond for one count of human trafficking and two counts of pandering solicitation before being returned to the Lafayette Parish jail on April Ou pled not guilty to all three charges last year and opted for a trial by jury, rather than by judge.
First reported: Lafayette Parish deputies charge seven women, two men with prostitution crimes. Investigators connected Ou to nine massage parlors in the Lafayette area, through surveillance and business records. Ou was required to turnover over her passport to authorities and prohibited from any contact with any massage parlors or their operators as a condition of her bond.
Ou posted the reduced bond a week later, and was present at an October pre-trial hearing in Lafayette, according to court records, but missed a court date this February, prompting a judge to issue a bench warrant for her arrest, though she was in ICE custody in New Jersey at the time.
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