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ULAN BATOR, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Mongolian police had arrested an American accused of human trafficking, local media reported Wednesday.

Patrick Earl Maanao, who has lived in Mongolia since 2008, was arrested at home last Friday.

Maanao was reportedly attempting to lure Mongolian women and girls into prostitution on Saipan, a U.S. territory in the western Pacific, under the guise of helping them "work in the United States."

It is claimed he was working with his Mongolian wife Unursaikhan, who allegedly identified potential victims and organized their travel. The couple were married in Mongolia and have two daughters.

Photos of naked girls and documents of 11 Mongolian women about to be sent abroad were reportedly found in Maanao's house.

Maanao confessed that the women aged between 20 and 24 were supposed to work at nightclubs and karaokes as strippers and table-girls in Saipan, the reports said.

The police said the investigation was continuing.