Police and FBI raid Arcadia mansion, arrest surrogacy agency founders

Law enforcement and the FBI entered the Arcadia residence known as a castle and took Guojun Xuan and his partner Silvia Zhang into custody. The pair, who run Mark Surrogacy, are accused of exploiting California surrogacy regulations and are alleged to have conspired to abuse more than twenty children born through their agency. The nine‑bedroom home housed the children under the supervision of live‑in nannies and a network of roughly 25 surveillance cameras, with the children noted for identical buzz cuts.

Police investigations began after Zhang brought a two‑month‑old son to Children’s Hospital in East Hollywood with a head injury that doctors identified as a brain bleed, and a nanny has been charged with assault likely to cause serious injury. Xuan’s attorney maintains his client’s innocence and points to a fleeing nanny as a factor in the raid.