The mayor of Methuen, Massachusetts is "declaring a war on human trafficking" after the city shut down two spas .

Police arrested the Beauty Garden Spa's manager, Suping Zhu, 38, in New York after a neighbor reported suspicious activity at the business.

Mayor D. J. Beauregard said he will create a human trafficking task force after Police Chief Scott McNamara said that there are similar operations happening in the city.

"We believe it's happening now," McNamara said. "We want them to know that we are coming for them next."

"We will work together to identify traffickers, shutter illegal businesses that profit from this evil, and hold landlords accountable if they harbor and profit from such activities," Beauregard said in a statement on Monday.

Beauregard told reporters that there

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