The Florida state attorney’s office in Palm Beach says New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution, days after police alleged surveillance video had caught Kraft during two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida. 

State Attorney Dave Aronberg said at a news conference Monday that Kraft, a resident of Massachusetts who also has a home in Palm Beach, is among 25 people facing first-degree misdemeanor charges of soliciting another to commit prostitution.

The police investigation into the spa was aimed at stopping human trafficking, which Aronberg equated to “modern day slavery” and called an “evil in our midst.”

Kraft and the more than two dozen men were snared in a sting operation that targeted the strip-mall massage parlor and spa — part of a broader investigation into what officials allege is a system of human trafficking and money-laundering.

“He’s being charged with the same offenses as the others,” Jupiter Police Chief Daniel Kerr said of Kraft on Friday. He added that there is video evidence of the criminal acts “for all of the individuals being charged.”