Scanner Traffic, Palouse Style

On Twitter, Kelsey Husky of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News (which was called the Idahonian back in the day) reports something she heard on the scanner about an hour ago: “A male has a female tied to a tree with climbing rope in a rural area SW of Moscow. Both said it was consensual.” Later, according to Kelsey, the responding officer clarified that both parties were, in fact, fully clothed.

Question: Can anyone provide possible context?