Seattle Adult Entertainment: Bellevue predator who pretended to be cop sentenced to nine years to life

Posted on October 31st, 2009 in Seattle adult entertainment by seattlesleuth

For that assault and the rape of another 18-year-old prostitute days later, Vanapalli pleaded guilty in September after a jury had been empanelled against him in King County Superior Court.
Prosecutors had been prepared to argue that, in each October sexual assault, Vanapalli had played the part of a police officer looking for free sex. In each case, O’Donnell argued, the Microsoft employee threatened the teens in an attempt to coerce them.
Unlike the Oct. 3, 2008, incident, though, prosecutors had contended Vanapalli forcibly raped a teen he’d hired on Craigslist.

“The defendant’s common scheme or plan was quite simple,” the prosecutor told the court, “pretend to be a cop so he could rape young women engaged in prostitution.” Detectives in Redmond and Bellevue were able to link the cell phone number Vanapalli had given the teens to Microsoft, where company security pointed them to Vanapalli.

See the full article from “Seattle Post Intelligencer”




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