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Mayor announces another business shuttered and creation of Human Trafficking Task Force

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METHUEN — The city has followed up a “declaration of war” against human trafficking with the investigation of another business and the creation of a task force.

On Monday, city inspectors shut down Eastern Bodywork Therapy, which officials allege is a front for human trafficking. Mayor D.J. Beauregard, who had announced the crackdown on Sunday, said in a press release that the task force would hold both the perpetrators and landlords accountable.


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