Isaac Shorack, 23, of Seattle, King County, Washington, United States drove to the arrivals area of the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Seattle on the evening of February 2, 2022. He was supposed to pick up a girl he believed to be 17 years old outside baggage claim. 

Instead, Shorack was arrested by Port of Seattle Police at the airport that evening. He was charged with two felonies related to human trafficking namely attempted enticement of a minor and attempted transportation of a minor to engage in prostitution.

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In November 2021, the National Human Trafficking Hotline received a report that minors being trafficked in the Seattle area. The Federal Bureau of Investigation started an investigation and traced some of the activities of Shorack and the minors he controlled for sex trafficking. 

An FBI undercover agent posed as a girl aged 17 to reach out to Shorack. Via phone and text messages, the Seattle resident enticed who he thought was a teenage girl to travel to Seattle and work for him as a prostitute. 

On February 3, 2022, Shorack appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle. He was detained pending a further hearing on February 8, 2022.

Incorporated as a city December 2, 1869, Seattle is the seat of King County. The seaport city is situated on an isthmus between Lake Washington and Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.

Bill Gates, 66, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 55, and Jamal Crawford, 41, were all born in Seattle. The city’s incumbent and 57th mayor Bruce Harrell, 63, assumed office on January 1, 2022.