FBI Atlanta and other agencies raided Wellmade Industries in a labor trafficking probe, arresting the owner and his nephew.
Zhu Chen, owner of Wellmade Flooring in Bartow County, was arrested Wednesday after an investigation into labor trafficking.
Federal agents say the men, one of whom owns the company, brought hundreds of people to the U.S. for cheap labor.
A former employee of Wellmade Industries, a flooring manufacturer in Cartersville, is shedding light on unsafe working conditions at the plant, which is now at the center of a federal labor ...
Agents arrested owner Zhu Chen and Jiayi Chen. Both are accused of bringing hundreds of Chinese nationals to this country to ...
According to FBI Atlanta, federal search warrants have been secured to search Wellmade Industries and several homes in the ...
Two men — connected with the labor trafficking investigation at Wellmade Industries — were denied bond by Bartow County ...
Homeland Security investigators said a months-long investigation found Zhu “George” Chen was bringing in workers from other ...
Cartersville, GA, March 27, 2025-"FBI Atlanta raided Wellmade Industries, a flooring manufacturing company in Cartersville,” ...
Agents are currently executing federal search warrants at Wellmade Industries as well as in a number of residences in Bartow County.
Federal search warrants were executed at Wellmade Industries and various residences in the Bartow area March 26 regarding a ...
According to a written statement on the FBI’s Facebook page, authorities are actively investigating Wellmade Industries and ...