Man Who Ran International Sex Trafficking Ring Gets 2 Years In Prison

BEAVERTON, OR — A man who was convicted of running an international sex trafficking ring that stretched from Beaverton to Toronto was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison, the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon announced Thursday. Mark Chen, 59, of Toronto, pleaded guilty in March to conspiring to use and using interstate facilities to promote, manage, establish, carry on, or facilitate a racketeering enterprise.

Chen would lure women from China to the United States and elsewhere to engage in prostitution and other sex trafficking actives, according to court documents.

Chen's organization hired people to be dispatchers that would take requests from people wanting "dates," according to court documents.

The dispatchers would then set up the dates by working with women in several brothels, court documents said.

Chen was extradited from Canada in March and pleaded guilty the next day, prosecutors said.