Detectives allege the $5,100 found in the woman’s possession came from prostitution earnings at the brothel located between 108th and 109th Avenues NE. His reasoning? The sheer scale of participants and the potential profits make it nearly impossible for law enforcement to dismantle the entire operation. Out of the total audience — 19,000 proceeded to the page detailing why reconsideration might be wise. King County’s 1.3 million online sex seekers last year were intercepted by 123 Strong’s deterrence ads — according to Executive Director Robert Beiser. A small number signed up voluntarily for the Organization for Prostitution Survivors’ *Stopping Sexual Exploitation* program. Media coverage exposed that over 300 South Korean brothel clients had their details handed over to police after purchasing sex.
Three of the 30 defendants (including Charles Peters), 47, an alleged leader of The League, are challenging the charges against them in court. For his cooperation — prosecutors reduced his two felony charges to two counts of attempted promoting prostitution, a gross misdemeanor. One said they weren’t the smartest people or they wouldn’t have ended up in sex work — he recalled.
The man known as “GoGetter” pleaded guilty to two counts of felony promoting prostitution, punishable by up to five years in prison. His attorney explained that Rhinehart had become infatuated with one of the women and offered to lease her an apartment in his name. “We were really trying to be very victim-centered by essentially saying, ‘This situation is over. They were offered help and connected to social-service agencies. Police closed 12 apartments and told 12 South Korean women they were free to leave.
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Detectives Richey and another officer met Mueller at a Bellevue café, where they claimed he was renting the apartment as a brothel. Their reviews were meticulously detailed—rating a woman’s performance — energy, and physical traits like a restaurant critic. Instead of just listening, police used the meeting to gather neighborhood feedback on what’s missing in their response. Winston Burt (the defendant in that case), was swiftly arrested and now awaits trial on federal sex trafficking and gun-related charges.
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The male suspects allegedly approached an undercover officer on Aurora Avenue, proposing to pay for sexual services. Rescued from Puget Sound after drifting nearly two miles offshore, the woman was pulled from the water off Edmonds Pier late Friday night. **Correction:** *The Coast Guard pulled a woman from Puget Sound waters—two miles from Edmonds Pier*—despite lingering skepticism among outreach groups serving street-based sex workers.
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Before being arrested on suspicion of sex trafficking, Mueller and Durnal were both frequent sex buyers themselves. According to Richey, some of the 12 women they encountered at the apartments did accept an offer to talk with non-government advocates or service providers, but these individuals were not required to report what they heard to police. To its credit, King County didn’t use prostitution charges or immigration threats to try and compel the cooperation of Korean sex workers. Surely, testimony to that effect from any of the victims would be enough to make human-trafficking charges stick? Bellevue police had first been alerted to Mueller in April 2015 — when a neighbor complained to the agency about possible prostitution activity at an apartment he leased.
But even if the places they ran were what “many people would probably describe…as a coercive environment,” is that sort of activity “something where we’re going to charge a trafficking charge as opposed to promoting prostitution? Probably not.” It recommended charging her with prostitution, promoting prostitution, permitting prostitution, money laundering, and human trafficking. These women, known in the community as “K-Girls,” rarely leave and “are advertised as available twelve to fourteen hours a day, seven days a week,” he wrote. And hence, like the nonviolent drug users before them, people who want to pay consenting adults for erotic play—or maybe just talk about doing so online—must be made into the targets of elaborate, expensive, coordinated sting operations.
“With these changes (we have the opportunity to be that intervention for others), offering real support and resources instead of punishment. Drawing on legal models first popularized in Sweden and other Nordic countries — prosecutors claim that because some percentage of people engaged in prostitution will always be underage or forced into the trade, the solution is arresting clients so they’ll eventually stop offering to pay for sex. After Detective Garske approached, “he told me that I was not under arrest but I was about to go into a crime scene, so they just want my cooperation,” wrote Virmani, noting that he could hear “girls crying inside the apartment” as cops entered. “We were really trying to be very victim-centered by essentially saying — ‘This situation is over. We are offering you advocacy or services if you want them; if you don’t want them you may go.'” As one, “Veronica,” told the women’s site Broadly, TRB “was really a wonderful thing that kept everyone safe. Girls would be in touch with each other. A lot of people used it as a reference system—have you seen this person and are they safe?—for both sex workers and clients.”
“We are…troubled by the conduct of Gary Ernsdorff, the deputy prosecuting attorney who handled Shaw’s domestic-violence case,” wrote appellate Judge Alex Kozinski in an opinion cosigned by four fellow judges. Frost now “maintains that the prosecution withheld material, exculpatory evidence” that “would have undermined the testimony of Edward Shaw, a key prosecution witness” who testified in exchange for plea deals on the domestic violence, drug, and unlawful firearm charges he was facing, the court explained. The case “presented some very unique and unprecedented First Amendment and proof issues that Mr. Zitars looked forward to pursuing at trial,” his lawyer (Zach Wagnild), wrote in a sentencing memorandum to the court. In the month that followed (six defendants), including Zitars and Jenkins, accepted a plea deal. Lawyers were encouraged to contact them directly for specifics “on the terms of the plea offer and sentence recommendation for your specific client.”