SEATTLE β More than people were arrested for patronizing a prostitute last week, when police set up a fake massage parlor on Aurora Ave North, according to a business owner next door. From June 24 through July 1, Seattle police arrested people for sexual exploitation, a misdemeanor.
One juvenile male was arrested for sexual exploitation and resisting arrest and released to the custody of his father. Among the men arrested, one was a convicted child molester, a formerly registered sex offender, a man who had methamphetamine on him, and a man who brought a firearm, knife and handcuffs to the location.
One of the men detained was also arrested in the sting. The business owner told KIRO 7 she witnessed dozens of men, from all walks of life, approaching the building.
She then watched as many of them were handcuffed at the back of the building and put into police vans. Lillian Taylor said she leases two buildings in the block of Aurora Avenue North. The two buildings are part of her start-up incubator business, where she helps people get funding and start their small businesses.
While she works out of one building, she is currently renovating the other. She said she noticed some men standing in front of that vacant building one day and asked them what they were doing.
