Prostitution City News Service, May 3, 1999 LOS ANGELES - A 40-year-old Alhambra man pleaded innocent today to charges that he smuggled Mexican women, some of them teen-agers, into the United States to work as prostitutes in a Long Beach house. Sammy Cheung is an alleged associate of Vu Tieng-Phou, who was indicted in January and is also accused of smuggling women and girls into the country from Acapulco to work as prostitutes in the house at 1060 Freeman Ave. Cheung, who was arrested last week at the Roseroom restaurant in Rosemead, faces two counts of conspiracy and one count of harboring illegal aliens, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Heidi Rummel. U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz set a June 29 trial date for Cheung and Tieng-Phou. Cheung was in charge of getting the women from Mexico to Long Beach and Tieng-Phou oversaw the day-to-day operations of the prostitution ring, the indictment alleges. When authorities raided the house in January, they found a 14-year-old girl, another teen who turned 17 that day and two women over 18 working as prostitutes, court documents allege. ******************************** 0000,8080,8080LAN TRUONG Dept. of Government Cornell University 4707 Connecticut Ave. NW Apt 615 Washington, DC 20008 202-237-0853 ********************************