Federal Way man charged with promoting prostitution while in jail for same charge

King County prosecutors recently charged a Federal Way man for breaking a restraining order and promoting prostitution while in jail – similar crimes that got him locked up in the first place.

Diallo R. Redd Jr., 20, who also goes by “DJ,” was being held on $100,000 bail at the Regional Justice Center in Kent after he pleaded guilty in March to promoting prostitution in the second degree and fourth-degree domestic violence assault charges. He was arrested in February.

Prosecutors increased his bail to $250,000 on April 10, however, after Federal Way police discovered Redd was apparently breaking a November domestic violence protection order. Officers also claim he continued to promote prostitution by directing and profiting from the prostitution of a 20-year-old woman for a month during his incarceration.

From Feb. 16 to March 16, a detective with the Federal Way Police Department Special Investigations Unit discovered 118 phone calls from Redd to the victim.

“Redd is very protective of the money that [the victim] is making from prostitution and often asks how much money she is making and how much money she is spending,” the detective wrote in charging documents.

In the phone calls, the victim and suspect discuss the Air BnBs the victim booked for her “work.” On more than a few occasions, the detective heard their conversations just before the victim meets with her clients.

In one phone recording, the detective overheard Redd tell the victim they need to begin praying and repent because they “sin every day” before he tells the victim to “keep stacking” and make “six hundred faces,” meaning $6,000, so that he can put $2,000 down on a car when he gets out of jail.

In addition to calls between the victim and suspect, the detective noted calls between the suspect and his mother during which he instructs his mother to put money from the victim on the “books.”

Police have watched Redd since as early as July 2016. The victim’s mother reached out to police after she found her daughter’s “social media pages that involved discussion and photographs of drugs and prostitution,” court documents state.

According to the victim’s mother, her daughter and the suspect met two years ago while attending Todd Beamer High School and dated off and on, since. In May 2016, the mother got a call where she was told her daughter was assaulted by the suspect, according to charging documents.

Detectives began investigating and found an internet ad of the victim by using her phone number. The ad appeared to be for prostitution based on the content.

Throughout the summer, detectives found more ads of the victim, some of which were connected to Redd’s cell phone number.

In August, prior to Redd’s arrest, the lead detective interviewed the victim after she returned from Las Vegas. The victim told police the suspect introduced her to Xanax and that she began “sleeping with men for money.” She told the detective she initially worked for a massage parlor in Renton as a prostitute as well as for an internet website. She said the suspect would sit outside in his vehicle and wait for her to finish her “dates.”

“She stated that the reason he did this is because he wanted to provide protection for her while she was performing sexual acts on clients,” court documents state.

The victim said she gave her funds to Redd because she was “careless with her money and constantly losing things.”

She went on to tell the detective about their attempt to get more clients in Las Vegas but claimed she only prostituted herself. Her bruises, she said, were from the suspect grabbing her arm during a fight, but that she had hit him first, and the bruising on her neck was from a woman who accused her of stealing something.

The victim’s friend, however, who was also present, told detectives she was told suspect choked the victim.

Redd was later arrested and incarcerated.

The victim also previously told the detective she knew of a man named Kamajah Skannal, who has been tied with human trafficking. According to charging documents, Skannal “often travels to Las Vegas with trafficking victims” and is friends with Redd.

“[The victim] stated that she did know Kamajah and that he, and his baby’s mother … were supposed to go to Las Vegas with them on the trip, but that Kamajah and [the woman] did not end up going last minute,” according to court documents.

They were to accompany the victim and Redd “to show them how to get dates and successfully make money by prostituting” the victim.

Skannal was charged with sex trafficking in early February.