HUBBARD, Ohio - Newly surfaced police body camera footage shows Trumbull County Commissioner Rick Hernandez bringing the owner of a shuttered Hubbard spa, now at the center of a human trafficking investigation, to police to make her case for reopening.

In the February 2025 video, recorded days after the first raid at 3C Foot Spa, Hernandez acknowledged for the first time that prostitution likely took place there, but insists the tenant who operated the business, Furong Li, was unaware of it.

Police are heard directly challenging that claim.

“They were doing prostitution out there. They were trading money for sex. And that’s a fact,” one officer tells Hernandez.

At another point, Hernandez concedes, “Well, that’s the fact,” but continues to defend Li, saying, “I've gotta think she has

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