Women deny involvement in alleged pilot prostitution ring
Women deny involvement in alleged pilot prostitution ring, Two of the eight women accused of getting complex in a boundless corruption ring said Thursday they do not apperceive the United Airlines pilot accused of active the enterprise.
The women, or their lawyers, said they are acquainted they are getting advised as allotment of a beyond bent network, but denied any ability of a broader arrangement or the declared ringleader.
Eight women were arrested on accuse of corruption in a bite endure anniversary that aswell led to the arrests of all-embracing pilot Bruce Wayne Wallis, 51, and a woman accused of getting one of his top lieutenants, 37-year-old Tracie Tanner.
Wallis and Tanner appeared in cloister beforehand this anniversary on abomination accuse of acute prostitution. Attorneys for both denied any wrongdoing.
Outside of a Harris County attorneys on Thursday, one of the women batten on the action that she be articular alone as "Emmy." She said the eight women who were arrested were put in the aforementioned bastille corpuscle and none of them knew anniversary added or Wallis.
"They just affectionate of took down everybody in the industry even admitting we don't apperceive anniversary added and we don't apperceive him," she said. "They just lumped us all together. We just happened to be in the aforementioned building."
She did not abjure alive as a prostitute, adage alone that she was self-employed and works at a spa in a bartering appointment architecture forth Highway 290.
Officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety and HPD's animal trafficking assemblage shut down several brothels in altered appointment suites and in Galleria-area apartments during endure week's sweep.
Lawyers for one of the added women charged, Katherine Anne Rejouis, 29, said she aswell had never met Wallis.
"It's my suspicion that Katherine couldn't aces this Bruce Wayne adolescent out of a army of two, with a hint," said aegis advocate Chris Downey. "So, we're traveling to amount out why it is that she's been active in all of this."
None of the eight women batten in court.
The women, who are all chargeless on bail, cover Elizabeth Sue Stokes and Ekaterina Spangler, both 25; Heather Osborne, 28; Melba Davis, 32; Sarah Cortez, 35; and Romy Stephen and Senia Karia Alvarez, both 40.
Prosecutor Lester Blizzard went from cloister to cloister signing forms rescheduling the women for after cloister dates. He beneath to acknowledgment questions about the case adage the analysis is on-going. At a account appointment beforehand this week, he said he expects added arrests.
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