A Seattle man was found guilty this afternoon of eight charges in connection with the pimping of three young women, including one who was a juvenile when she began prostituting for him.
On the current “Summary” page for Allison’s murder, the current detective left out the important information that Allison was due to testify in court in Seattle, and disappeared 10 days prior to that (not much unlike the 1979 Tammy Vincent case, still unsolved, with three people in the vicinity of where her body was found in a small town in California, with names/links to Allison’s case) Certain members of Allison’s family had big ties to Seattle and vicinity organized crime. Allison was not a “professional prostitue”. She was raped by Stanley Krivsky of Canada and he had plans on being a pimp for her. Allison was a juvenile, and now they call this “trafficking” and do NOT blame the victim. There is nothing in Allison’s case to show that she was a “professional prostitute”. She was picked up the one time with Stanley Krivsky for solicitation, and the charges (that Allison was testsifying to) were against Stanley Krivsky for rape of a minor. My r …
WEAPONS AND DRUGS: Police stopped a prostitute and likely pimp for a pedestrian violation and suspicious behavior. They were both found to have warrants for their arrest and the man was found to be in possession of a loaded gun and narcotics.
March 8
MENTAL COMPLAINTS: A woman was walking in the wooded trail at Hamlin Park when she heard crashing. A man was grabbing some branches and thrashing them back and forth as he was flailing around.
VANDALISM: Someone smashed out the front passenger side window of a vehicle parked in front of Fred Meyer on Aurora Ave. N.
SEX OFFENSE: An exchange student reported that an unknown guy exposed his penis to her while she was waiting at a bus stop in the 2100 block of N.E. 145th St.
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Related Topics: Burglary To A Motor Vehicle, Graffiti, Heroin, Hit And Run, Pimping, Shoreline, Shoreline Police, Shoreline police blotter, Vandalism, and prostitute
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Now The Curious Mystery is in the midst of taking that style on the road, including an extended stay in New York City in April. “We played a show at the Ace [Hotel] on our last tour, it has this beautiful lobby and they have a Sunday music series which is booked and DJ’d by this guy Chris who dug our band and asked if we’d be interested in coming back to do a residency for a month. So we chose April so we could stop by SXSW on the way.”
New York and Austin won’t be the only lucky towns to witness the magic forming around The Curious Mystery. “In between Ace Hotel shows we’ll be touring around the East coast and a bit of the South,” she says.
Shana and The Curious Mystery are on the precipice of great things, but she is staying grounded. “Last time we were at the Ace, Tre Cool was throwing a birthday party for his girlfriend at the hotel and it was ‘pimps and hoes’ themed or something. We’re hoping to meet lots of famous people there who will give us money and buy us meals.”
A 24-year-old Tacoman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday in Tacoma U.S. District court for one count of human trafficking and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm.
Jonelle LaJohn Braun pleaded guilty to those charges in late December last year.
The sentencing arose from an incident in March last year when police arrested Braun on suspicion of a parole violation as he left a Federal Way motel. Bruan, who has felony convictions for several crimes including assault, burglary, cocaine delivery, possession of stolen property and unlawful possession of a firearm, had a .380 caliber semi-automatic pistol in his waistband when police apprehended him, said federal authorities.
Subsequent investigation revealed that Braun had held a 16-year-old girl and had forced her into prostitution. The young woman told police he took all of the money she earned and threatened her with physical harm if she didn’t comply with his directives.
The editorial goes on to claim that VVM devotes “hundreds of employees” exclusively to screening its online prostitution advertisers to make sure they aren’t advertising underage prostitutes.
Neither VVM nor Seattle Weekly responded to a request from PubliCola to substantiate the claim that VVM, a chain with a dozen weekly newspapers, employs “hundreds” of workers to screen its escort advertisers (according to Hoovers.com, VVM has 1,400 employees, including editorial, advertising, and tech).
Kristof did completely upend one of the company’s principle claims: that one of the juvenile prostitutes he quotes, Alissa, was actually 17 in 2003, the year Kristof says she was sold online at the age of 16:
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Here in Washington State, legislators passed a bill this past session prohibiting publications from knowingly posting prostitution ads for minors and requiring advertisers to keep records of the identification they use to verify the age of girls featured in ads, and both Mayor Mike McGinn and city council member Tim Burgess have made preventing child exploitation a cornerstone of their administrations.
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PORTLAND, OR—Lead defendant Chris Cool Wilmer, 28, of Tacoma, Washington, made his initial appearance today in federal court on an indictment charging him with four counts of sex trafficking, including sex trafficking of a child, coercion and enticement of a minor, transportation of a minor for prostitution, and a violation of the Mann Act for transporting an adult for prostitution. According to prosecutors, Wilmer is a career offender with a violent history. The federal magistrate detained Wilmer as both a danger to the community and a risk of flight.
Wilmer’s niece, Latanisha “Tay” Booker, 20, of Portland, Oregon, appeared in court last week on the same indictment in which the federal grand jury charged her with transportation of a minor for prostitution, witness tampering, and retaliating against a witness. Booker’s alleged acts of tampering and retaliating were against the victim of human trafficking described in count four of the indictment.
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Upon conviction for transporting a minor for prostitution, each defendant faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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Here Come The Brides is not a TLC show about women battling it out for severally discounted wedding gowns. This was a Western series from the end of the ‘60s that dared to have a feminine touch to the wild frontier living. There had cowboy shows with female characters, but they were extra tough women. Miss Kitty didn’t take any lip when running her bar (and maybe brothel) on Gunsmoke. Victoria Barkley was tougher than her sons on The Big Valley. Here Come The Brides didn’t need to show a rough side to its female characters.
The premise was that the lumber operation in Seattle was losing workers and lumberjacks because they needed female companionship. Jason Bolt (Robert Brown) makes a promises to recruit 100 women willing to move West in the hopes of marrying his employees. The first season had sawmill operator Aaron Stempel (Star Trek’s Mark Lenard) contributing to the cause with a minor stipulation. If the women head back east before a year is up, Stempel takes over a big bulk of the Bolt’s operation. Here Comes The Brides: The Complete Second Season answers the outcome of the wager.
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A notorious Rush Limbaugh venture beyond the bounds of decency came in 2006 when he suggested that Michael J. Fox was faking Parkinson’s Disease symptoms in a commercial spot supporting stem cell research.
The actor, in an appearance this week on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, dismissed the old Limbaugh insult but had much to say about Limbaugh’s description of Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and “prostitute.”
Fluke has become a public voice for including coverage of contraception in health insurance plans offered by her Catholic university and other church-supported schools and hospitals.
Of the controversy, spawned on Limbaugh’s right-wing radio show, Fox said:
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The incident happened Tuesday in the 13200 block of Aurora Avenue North. (Google Maps)
A man who tried to steal a Trojan vibrating condom, lube, mascara and other items form a North Seattle Rite-Aid was arrested for robbery Tuesday, but not before he fled from the store and used a Taser on the drug store’s loss prevention officer, police said.
The man, who also had a misdemeanor drug warrant from Mountlake Terrace, was there with another woman and a 3-year-old child, according to an investigators report.
The incident happened about 3:20 p.m. Tuesday in the 13200 block of Aurora Avenue North – a stretch of state Route 99 known for prostitution and drug problems.
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