YOUNGSTOWN — Jingmei Feng, 54, was arraigned Wednesday in Youngstown Municipal Court on a felony charge of practicing medicine without a license and a misdemeanor charge of soliciting sexual activity for hire following her arrest during a raid Tuesday at a business in the 1700 block of Belmont Avenue on Youngstown’s North Side.

Magistrate Meghan Brundege set bond at $15,000 and ordered that Feng be on electronically monitored house arrest if she makes bond. Kathy Thompson, Youngstown prosecutor, expressed concern that Feng might be a flight risk and recommended the bond.

Thompson mentioned that Feng had crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in 2023, then went to Flushing, N.Y., then came to Youngstown recently. Thompson said Feng is a flight risk because she has no “ties to Ohio or actually the United States.”

A Youngstown police report states that agents with the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force, Youngstown housing officers and the Youngstown Police Department Crime Lab went to the business Tuesday morning with a search warrant.

The agents found a woman known as “Sasha,” later identified as Feng, and a male customer who was naked on a massage table. The male was interviewed as part of the investigation. An interpreter from the Ohio Department of Public Safety assisted in the investigation because Feng did not speak English, the report states.

Feng was taken to the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office, where agents learned that Feng had crossed the Mexican border to get into the United States, then became a “sex for hire worker” in Flushing, N.Y. She said a van picked her up and took her to Youngstown, where she started working in the spa on Belmont Avenue. She admitted to providing sexual intercourse for money at the spa. She did not have a massage license, she said, according to the report.

There was no current massage license for the location, which was also raided by the task force as part of a multi-location operation in August. An undercover agent was solicited for sex that time also.

Yuli Guo, 49, of China, later pleaded guilty in Youngstown Municipal Court to misdemeanor soliciting prostitution and received a suspended 60-day jail sentence and was ordered to pay $700 in court costs as a result of that investigation.

On Friday, a member of the task force went to the business at 1760 Belmont Avenue No. 3 undercover and saw that there was no signage at the location, only an “open” sign in the front window that was not illuminated. A handwritten piece of paper on the glass door gave the location’s address, the report noted. Mail on the counter inside gave the name “Zen Spa.”

An undercover agent entered the location, paid Feng $70 for a massage and received a massage, the report states. Feng asked him if he wanted “boom boom” and made sexual thrusting movements with her hips and arms, the report states. After they discussed the amount, the woman took the money and began to touch the undercover agent, but the agent ended the session and left.

At the scene of the search warrant Tuesday, the undercover agent identified Feng as the woman from his undercover sting, the report states.

The business was advertising on an escort website known to task force agents, the report states. After the interview, Feng was arrested and taken to the county jail.