Police take down multiple brothels working out of upscale apartments thanks to their overly talkative tech-savvy clients – PB/TK
Busted: How police brought down a tech-savvy prostitution network in Bellevue – By Lynn Thompson / July 26 2017
Men cruised the hallway of an upscale Bellevue apartment building, checking their cellphones and scanning the unit numbers before pausing at a door that swung open even before they knocked.
A neighbor grew suspicious and alerted police, saying she believed the woman living down the hall was involved in sex work.
The men “are all ages and body sizes,” the tipster wrote in an April 2015 email to Bellevue police. They visit “at all hours of the day.”
The email set in motion an eight-month investigation that revealed South Korean prostitutes were working out of a dozen luxury Bellevue apartments. The young women, who often spoke limited English, were hired by an “agency” and worked in the apartment for several weeks before they moved on to other cities.
