The feds argued yesterday that Asian gangster Wei Xing Chen, a Cambridge man accused of running several brothels – part of a series of recent arrests alleging organized crime by Asian gangs in Boston’s Chinatown – is a career criminal who should be held without bail pending trial read the story
Chen, who is also known as Lo Gai and Lo Biu, faces charges of conspiracy to distribute ecstasy and of conspiracy to move prostitutes between different locations.
The charge of moving prostitutes elevates the seriousness of the case from a state charge of running a brothel.
“He’s really a career criminal,’’ Assistant US Attorney Timothy Moran said in court yesterday, arguing that Chen should remain behind bars. “He has no legitimate occupation. He doesn’t do anything legitimate. His whole life is involved in crime. He knows he’s breaking the law and it just doesn’t matter to him.’’
Moran said Chen could face as many as six years in federal prison.
Prosecutors said Chen worked with a cousin out of New York City to sell ecstasy. The cousin, Tong Chen, faces charges in New York but fled to China.
Chen also allegedly ran several brothels in Cambridge and Boston and has been charged with bringing Chinese woman into the area to work as prostitutes.
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