A U.S. District Court judge April 30 in Seattle sentenced a 28-year-old Everett man to six years, five months in prison for human trafficking in connection with forcing a woman to work as prostitute in 2007 and 2008 along Pacific Highway South in Kent and Des Moines.<\/p>\n
Marquin Thompson pleaded guilty in January to forcing a then 19-year-old woman into prostitution after the woman had become estranged from her family, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office media release. She has since been reunited with her family.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour imposed the sentence.<\/p>\n
Thompson also took the woman to Arizona and California where he forced her to work as a prostitute.<\/p>\n
According to records filed in the case, between September 2007 and January 2008, Thompson forced the woman to work for him as a prostitute along Pacific Highway South.<\/p>\n
He controlled the woman with threats of violence. She was expected to make hundreds of dollars each day and required to turn over all of her earnings to Thompson.<\/p>\n
The case was investigated by the Everett Police Department and the FBI.<\/p>\n
In a sentencing memo, Ye-Ting Woo, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote that Thompson had exploited other women as well. She said Thompson was convicted of supervision of a prostitute in 2006 in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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