Jonesboro, AR – (JonesboroRightNow.com) – Aug. 21, 2025 – Court documents said an investigation into two Jonesboro massage parlors uncovered an operation where sexual services were routinely sold, and the cash proceeds were laundered through casino machines in two states.

According to an affidavit, on Sept. 29, 2024, two men filed a report at the Jonesboro Police Department in reference to getting a massage at Healing Massage at 2319 E. Matthews Ave. They explained that during the massage, they were both touched inappropriately.

Through an investigation of the city’s massage parlors, detectives found that Healing Massage and One Massage on Grant Avenue were rented to Quingjuan Liao-Price. Healing Massage was also found to have a vehicle registered to Hongliang Cai, of Los Angeles, CA, and the address of the vehicle returned to the business. The utilities were also in Cai’s name.

The affidavit said Cai was seen driving back and forth from Healing Massage to One Massage almost daily. It goes on to say that several online ads for both massage parlors were found on prostitution websites.

Detectives then discovered that on Nov. 19, 2022, Cai visited the Cherokee Casino in West Siloam Springs, OK, with two other unidentified women. There, they said the trio inserted small dollar bills into the machines and cashed out a total of $20,389.

Another incident occurred at the Southland Casino in West Memphis on April 20, 2024, where Cai and Liao were said to have inserted small dollar bills into ticket-in and ticket-out machines. In total, $19,618.36 was cashed out between the two.

Search warrants were conducted at both massage parlors on Jan. 23. The affidavit said before this, Cai drove from Healing Massage to One Massage. There, she was seen in a locked room with another employee, with cash laid out on a bed, and Cai appeared to be collecting the cash.

The other subject, along with other employees at the massage parlor, was taken to a victim advocate center.

The employee who was with Cai said she had just given a massage to a customer and was giving Cai the money from the massage. According to the affidavit, the employees had to give their money to Cai, who would write them checks.

While officers were executing the search warrant, a customer was contacted leaving One Massage. They told police that they had just paid for a massage and received sexual services, adding that they received sexual services every time he went to the location.

The affidavit said another customer entered the Healing Massage while officers were conducting the search warrant. The customer admitted to being at the business multiple times, paying for a massage and receiving sexual services in return.

Both customers told police they had been to the parlors multiple times, and that every time they would get a massage, they would automatically be given sexual services, and they would give a tip in return.

The search warrant resulted in $10,635 found at One Massage, while $6,230 was found at Healing Massage. The affidavit added that detectives discovered Cai had the business account for Healing Massage, and $4,000 was taken from Cai’s purse.

Detectives ultimately were able to determine that Cai was the overseer of both massage parlors, and they had been conducting sexual services in exchange for cash. The affidavit said the reports from the casinos also indicated that the money obtained from the incidents were done to avoid reporting requirements.

A bench warrant was obtained for Cai Aug. 19, but she turned herself in the same day.

On Aug. 20, District Judge David Boling found probable cause to charge Cai with criminal use of property or laundering criminal proceeds.

She was given a $5,000 cash/surety bond and ordered to wear a GPS ankle monitor after she, through an interpreter, expressed the inability to pay an alternate bond of $50,000 cash/surety. This original bond would have required no ankle monitor but for Cai’s passport to be taken.

On the same day the search warrants were executed in January, Cai, along with another woman, were arrested as a part of a statewide human trafficking operation bust. The two were quickly released, however, due to a lack of space at the Craighead County Detention Center, according to sheriff Marty Boyd.

Cai’s next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 30.