Genna Martin/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty
A pimp in the “prostitution underworld” was arrested by Seattle police on Sunday after one of his prostitutes under him escaped—but not before a citywide pursuit that involved a firefight with an Uber driver, city and state troopers, and jumping out of a third-floor window.
William Burt, known as Dick Capone, was arrested outside a $1.4 million South Seattle home he rented through Airbnb on Sunday. The charges included assault, kidnapping, promoting prostitution, human trafficking, and a drive-by shooting, the Seattle Times reported Friday, and stemmed from his prostitution of at least four women in their early 20s.
“The defendant leads a sex trafficking enterprise that has operated in at least three U.S. states involving multiple victims, who have been exploited, harmed and maimed by the defendant’s violent and coercive actions,” King County senior deputy prosecutor Benjamin Gauen wrote in the charges.