For the second time this month, Montoursville police raided yet another massage spa in the borough that was really just “a house of prostitution,” where clients paid for sexual favors, it was alleged in an affidavit.

The raid on Wednesday at Bin’s Asian Spa, 190 Broad St., resulted in the arrests of two women associated with the business, according to borough Deputy Police Chief Clinton Gardner, the lead investigator in the case and the one who filed the charges.

Borough police charged Yu Chen, 61, identified in court papers as “the manager” of the spa, and Fang Shaen, 66. Both women, who admitted to being employees of the business, hailed from China and carried the Broad Street business address as their residence.

Chen and Shaen each face charges of promoting prostitution, conspiracy, illegal use of a communication device and related offenses. “The two conspired to manage a house of prostitution,” Gardner alleged in a criminal complaint. Chen and Shaen each were “inmates at a house of prostitution and did engage in sexual activity as a business,” the deputy chief alleged

The raid and subsequent arrests came about after police received information earlier this month from a confidential source who reported paying $110 for a massage at Bin’s and getting in return a massage as well as a “sexual act,” the affidavit stated.

Bin’s had “no valid business license,” and “no masseuse license could be found either,” Gardner said in the court document.

While officers were executing a court-ordered search warrant on Wednesday, a potential patron “attempted to enter the business, holding $240 in cash in his hand. He admitted (to officers) that he came to the spa to get a massage” and sexual gratification, Gardner wrote in the affidavit.

The man said he “found the spa on an illicit website, and called the number on the website to arrange an appointment. The number (advertised) on the illicit site is the (same) number posted on the front of building,” Gardner said.

During the raid, police seized in excess of $1,000 in cash.

Chen and Shaen were arraigned late Wednesday night before District Judge Denise Dieter and jailed

on no bail.

The office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been consulted about the case since Chen had no documents with her and it was unclear if she is here legally, according to comments made by law enforcement during her arraignment.

Earlier this month, Gardner arrested Liuping Li, 49, and charged her with promoting prostitution and related offenses for allegedly running a “house of prostitution” out of the Jia Yuan Spa at 440 Broad St. In the borough. Arrested and jailed on May 7, Li has since waived her preliminary hearing and is now free on $200,000 bail.

A second woman was taken into custody in this case, but she was never criminally charged.