Federal Way police arrested seven prostitutes and one man suspected of promoting prostitution at a hotel during a multi-jurisdictional undercover operation on June 17.

The Federal Way Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit assisted the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force and the Seattle Police Department with an operation targeting child prostitution and sex trafficking to recover juveniles being prostituted in the area. However, they did not locate any juveniles.

Police arrested seven women, who all admitted to placing ads offering sex in exchange for money on backpage.com. They also denied working for any pimps. Six of the prostitutes were later released and not charged with any crime, while one of the women was booked into jail on an unrelated charge.

The prostitutes were from various cities around the region, including Burien, Bellevue, Seattle and one was from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Police also arrested a 29-year-old Tacoma man, who faces charges of promoting prostitution in the second-degree.

Jessica Christenson, assistant general manager for the Comfort Inn, said the hotel was aware of the operation.

“The FBI and Federal Way Police Department asked several times for the Comfort Inn to help them out with a safe and secure environment for their operation,” Christensen wrote in a statement. “The Comfort Inn was trying to help the community in any way it could. The escorts posted ads on a website and the police called and had them come to the hotel. This hotel [just completed] a $1.4 million renovation … in April. We will continue to support our community any way we can.”

The suspect went to the Comfort Inn Hotel with his homeless girlfriend of four months, who arranged to meet a client at the hotel. The woman met the supposed “John” — actually an undercover police officer — in a hotel room, where she agreed to have sex with him for an hour, at a rate of $275. The officer notified her she was under arrest.

The woman later told police she was addicted to heroin and she had been staying in hotels with her boyfriend. She admitted that her boyfriend drove her to her dates and that he knew she was prostituting herself.

The suspect went to her hotel room after he became worried that she didn’t come out of the room in an hour. He was arrested and told police that the money his girlfriend makes from prostituting herself pays for their food, their heroin habit and the hotels they stay in.

Police also found texts on the girlfriend’s phone between her and the suspect discussing prostitution, such as money, offer and agreements and making sure his girlfriend didn’t give the Johns extra time, according to the police report.

The woman had a $2,600 city of Puyallup warrant for drug paraphernalia, so she was transported to SCORE jail.