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VOL. 17, NO. 26
MIRROR
F E D E R A L WAY
DIVISION OF SOUND PUBLISHING
OPINION | Macgruder: Sharing bicycle safety over barf story [4] Roegner: Public service or insiders club? [4]
Sports | Federal Way Little POLICE | Man jumps off I-5 overpass onto semiFRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015 | 75¢ League teams finding success [8] truck [10]
Nurse provides homeless a place to wash clothes
one different than the other. Society doesn’t realize that some of these people have s a licensed practical fallen on hard times. It’s a nurse for Group series of events that have Health in Fedgotten them to this place.” eral Way for over 20 years, Moore nominated EdSharry Edwards said it’s wards because of the proacher job to treat her patients tive steps she took recently with dignity. to expand the Caregiving Edwards was Network’s nominated by “I think the way laundry Federal Way program from the U.S. deals Councilman twice a year to Martin Moore with the homeless once a month. as the Federal is completely The laundry Way Mirror’s program probackwards. I treat June Citizen of vides a place these homeless like and time each the Month. Edwards, a I treat my patients.” month where board member individuals and volunteer Sharry Edwards struggling to for the Federal meet basic Way Communeeds can nity Caregivcome and ing Network, said treating wash their clothes and the homeless should be no blankets, free of charge. different. “It’s so wonderful to see “I believe the homeless her in action, caring for and people less fortunate the homeless. She listens to need to be treated with these people authentically,” dignity and respect,” Moore said. “It’s amazing Edwards said. “I think the how much she does.” way the U.S. deals with Last December, Edwards the homeless is completely said she had heard about backwards. I treat these the laundry program and homeless like I treat my decided to attend the propatients. I would never treat [ more HOMELESS, page 18 ] BY ANDREW FICKES
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City celebrates 25 years Above, children enjoy one of the many rides at Federal Way’s 25th anniversary celebration last weekend at Town Square Park. TERRENCE HILL, the Mirror Right, a girl pets the 12th Man Pony during the festival, themed “Celebrating Our Past, Building Our Future,” which paid tribute to city founders and highlighted the projects currently underway in Federal Way. The main event featured free bounce houses, pony rides, food trucks and various entertainment during the four-day festival that ran from June 18 thorugh June 21. For more photos, see page 3. Courtesy of Bruce Honda
8 arrested during undercover prostitution sting at hotel BY CARRIE RODRIGUEZ editor@fedwaymirror.com
Federal Way police arrested seven prostitutes and one man suspected of promoting prostitution at a hotel during a multijurisdictional undercover operation on June 17. The Federal Way Police Department’s Special In-
vestigations Unit assisted the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force and the Seattle Police Department with an operation targeting child prostitution and sex trafficking to recover juveniles being prostituted in the area. However, they did not locate any juveniles. Police arrested seven women, who all admitted to placing ads offering sex in exchange for money on backpage.com. They also denied working for any pimps. Six of
the prostitutes were later released and not charged with any crime, while one of the women was booked into jail on an unrelated charge. The prostitutes were from various cities around the region, including Burien, Bellevue, Seattle and one was from Las Vegas, Nevada. Police also arrested a 29-year-old Tacoma man, who faces charges of promoting prostitution in the second-degree.
The suspect went to the Comfort Inn Hotel with his homeless girlfriend of four months, who arranged to meet a client at the hotel. The woman met the supposed “John” — actually an undercover police officer — in a hotel room, where she agreed to have various types of sex with him for an hour, at a rate of $275. The officer notified her she was under arrest. The woman later told police she was addicted to
heroin and she had been staying in hotels with her boyfriend. She admitted that her boyfriend drove her to her dates and that he knew she was prostituting herself. The suspect went to her hotel room after he became worried that she didn’t come out of the room in an hour. He was arrested and told police that the money his girlfriend makes from prostituting herself pays for their food, their heroin
habit and the hotels they stay in. Police also found texts on the girlfriend’s phone between her and the suspect discussing prostitution, such as money, offer and agreements and making sure his girlfriend didn’t give the Johns extra time, according to the police report. The woman had a $2,600 city of Puyallup warrant for drug paraphernalia, so she was transported to SCORE jail.