Four Women Busted for Prostitution

Woburn Police and the Southern Middlesex Regional Drug Task Force arrested four women on prostituion charges on Friday.

Police arrested Renfang Shen, 41, 131-44 40th Road, Flushing, NY, Kayla Antwana Harris, 20, 1317 Blue Hill Ave., Apt. 3, Mattapan, Yanwen Wang, 45, homeless, and Allison Elizabeth Staal, 24, 44134 Frdeda Court, Livermore, CA, and charged them with sexual conduct for a fee.

Undercover officers responded to sexual explicit ads for the women and scheduled meetings with them in Woburn hotel rooms. They arrested the women at the hotels.

“Prostitution is a quality of life issue in that it often takes places in hotels, office buildings and/or apartment buildings where there is pedestrian traffic where customers often blend in (and) is often associated with drug usage, drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, human trafficking, abuse and violence including assaults, rape and robbery,” according to the Southern Middlesex Regional Drug Task Force.