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A mother and son currently in custody in New Mexico will be coming to Lubbock to face federal charges that employees at their massage parlors were offering "illicit commercial sex." Shaoping Wen and her son Xu Wang are charged with conspiracy to use interstate travel in aid of racketeering enterprises. According to a criminal complaint, Wen owned at least seven massage parlors where women engaged in commercial sex. Her son was operating the parlors when she wasn't there. Investigators say at least ten times between last summer and last month, undercover officers bought a massage, and were then offered sex for an additional charge. After the women were arrested for prostitution at the parlors in Texas and New Mexico, on several occasions, Wen personally bailed them out of jail. The parlors were in Lubbock and Wolfforth, Texas, and Clovis and Roswell, New Mexico.