YOUNGSTOWN — Jingmei Feng, 54, of Flushing, New York, was indicted Thursday on felony practicing medicine without a license and misdemeanor soliciting another to engage in sexual activity for hire following a January investigation at a location in the 1700 block of Belmont Avenue on Youngstown’s North Side.

If convicted of practicing medicine without a license, Feng could get a year in prison. The other charge carries a lesser penalty if convicted.

Feng was arraigned Jan. 29 in Youngstown Municipal Court on the same two charges following her arrest during a raid Jan. 28 at the location.

Magistrate Meghan Brundege set bond at $10,000 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, on which Feng was later released from jail.

Thompson mentioned that Feng had crossed the border from Mexico into the United States in 2023, then went to Flushing, New York., 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 members of the Youngstown Police Department Crime Lab went to the business Jan. 28 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 engaging in sexual intercourse for money at the spa, the report stated. She did not have a massage license, she said, according to the report.

There was no current massage license for the location, which also was raided by the task force as part of a multi-location operation in August. An undercover agent was solicited for sex at 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 Jan. 24, an undercover agent went to 1706 Belmont Ave., No. 3, which had mail on the counter giving the name Zen Spa, the report states.

The 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 the following week, 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.

Others indicted Thursday are:

* Kaeontae A. Thomas, 25, Alameda Avenue, seven counts of identity fraud and one count of possessing criminal tools.

* Antwane G. McMeans Jr., 25, Alameda Avenue, five counts of identity fraud and one count of possessing criminal tools.

* Stacey N. Noble, 46, Summer Street, burglary.

* Randall C. Culler Jr., 45, Bell Road, Lisbon, theft.

* King J. Atkins, 21, Brier Street SE, Warren, theft.

* Charles L. Zimmerman, 53, Mahoning County jail, three counts of burglary, each with a notice of prior conviction and a repeat violent offender specification.

* Marquis R. Cambridge, 30, Mahoning County jail, felonious assault.

* Jessica Garrett, 35, Mahoning County jail, receiving stolen property.

* Jarrod J. Kish, 45, Narcissa Street, Struthers, cocaine possession and misdemeanor operating a vehicle under the influence of alcohol, a drug of abuse or a combination of them — OVI.

* Nathan L. Baker, 40, Lake Erie Correctional Institution, Conneaut, theft.

* Jared Henderson, 31, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, Lucasville, assault.