4 arrested for trafficking amidst woman’s sex slave claims
A Spokane woman claims she was held captive and sold for sex at meth houses and motels for the past year.
Suspect Lawrence Dean Johnson, 43, has been arrested on human trafficking charges related to claims made by the woman to sheriff’s detectives. Detectives corroborated the woman’s claims through property records and past police reports, including an arrest of a sex offender in March on accusations that he assaulted the woman.
The suspect in that case, level 3 sex offender Trevor L. Franklin, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault earlier and was sentenced to a year in prison. Franklin, 21, was convicted of third-degree assault for threatening to kill a developmentally delayed woman if she did not let him sexually assault her. Police say he also had sexual contact with five others between the ages of 9 and 15 years old but was not charged.
Police arrested Franklin after responding to a motel at 12803 E. Sprague March 31 to find the woman hysterical and shaking while with her two-year-old son. Meghann Cuniff , SR More here.
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