A King County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team arrested two men on September 2 in connection with the kidnapping and rape of two teenage girls, one 15 and one 17, who prosecutors say were lured from an Olympia church under the promise of alcohol and driven across county lines to a home near Renton. The arrests unfolded during a narcotics investigation that also turned up hundreds of grams of fentanyl and cocaine, cash, guns, and luxury vehicles.
The suspects were identified as 27-year-old Josue “Joshua” Orozco of Seattle and 19-year-old Moises Guardela-Marrugo of Kent, according to FOX 13 Seattle. Guardela-Marrugo was taken into custody in Auburn by the King County Sheriff’s TAC 30 SWAT team, while Orozco was arrested at a parking lot in Kent outside his white Chevrolet C8 Corvette, the station reported. Bodycam footage from the tactical team captured the arrests of both men.
According to charging documents cited by the Renton Reporter, the two teenage girls met the suspects at an Olympia church on August 13 believing they would be getting alcohol, only to be driven in a van against their will to Orozco’s home near Renton in unincorporated King County. There, the girls were allegedly locked in a bedroom and sexually assaulted. The suspects later dropped the teenagers off at a Kent shopping center parking lot, where a bystander drove them back to Olympia so they could report the crime to law enforcement, per the same account.
Charges and Bail Set in King County Superior Court
King County prosecutors charged Orozco with second-degree rape, third-degree rape, and two counts of unlawful imprisonment with a sexual motivation enhancement, holding him on $500,000 bail, while Guardela-Marrugo was charged with attempted second-degree rape on $200,000 bail, according to reporting from the Renton Reporter. Both men pleaded not guilty during their September 10 appearance in King County Superior Court, where Judge Josephine Wiggs barred news cameras from displaying the defendants’ faces…