Category: Washington

20-year-old Sadie Baca was charged with sex trafficking and obstruction of justice Friday in D.C. District Court. Working alongside local law enforcement agencies, officials said undercover officers scanned social media and escort sites looking for what appeared to be children advertising sex. The officers would then set up a fake date, meet up with the victims, try to help them, and eventually make an effort to arrest their traffickers.

Alrico Ray Coleman pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree human trafficking and promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor. Commissioner Craig Adams determined there was probable cause and set bail at $500,000.

Seattle, WA former cheer coach Leonard Bernard Lewis, pleaded guilty admitting that he transported images of child rape and abuse on his personal electronic devices when he traveled from Seattle to London.

A Richland man is now going to spend 61 months behind bars after being sentenced today for sex crimes involving a sell of a 16-year-old girl into the sex trade.

32-year-old Aubrey “Uno” Taylor had worked as a pimp in Washington, Idaho and Nevada. He transported girls to Las Vegas to engage in commercial sex acts, and controlled his victims with things like heroin and making them get tattoos of his name.

Booked into the Benton County, WA. jail as a “contract inmate,” Jesus Rodriguez 27, just finished serving a one-year-nine-month term for similar charges involving a different girl. If convicted in federal court, he faces at least 10 years and up to life in prison for the online enticement and child sex trafficking charges. The child pornography charge carries a sentence of 5 to 20 years.

Thomas Moir was fired in January, immediately after the city learned of the allegations against him, The details are described in the ten-page criminal complaint are graphic and disturbing.

Bonney Lake, WA. detectives this week arrested a 55-year-old Puyallup man who allegedly used an online chat application chathour.com to threaten and manipulate a 17-year-old girl into a sexual relationship over the course of nearly two months in 2018.

A pair of Spokane-area massage parlors employing only Chinese workers is under investigation on suspicion of promoting prostitution, human trafficking, practicing without a license and money laundering.