Shante L. Broady, 37, of Seattle, King County, Washington, United States is a former resident of Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. He was recently booked into the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, King County.
Aside from Fredericksburg, Broady has lived in other parts of Virginia including Stafford. Fredericksburg is 48 miles south of Washington, D.C., USA where the Federal Bureau of Investigation is based.
Shante Broady
In March 2023, law enforcement officers received a report that Broady had been sex trafficking a victim in Portland, Oregon, USA. In September 2024, he turned 37.
In November 2024, a former girlfriend of Broady reported being assaulted by him. In March 2025, he allegedly lured a woman from Canada, paid for her plane ticket and forced her into prostitution in Seattle with threats and violence.
Another woman accused Broady of forcing her into prostitution in Seattle but failed to do so. In April 2025, she and the woman from Canada contacted the FBI about his sex trafficking and threats of violence.
The woman from Canada was able to return home. Before this, she and the other victim got a civil restraining order to try to keep Broady away from them.
On April 11, 2025, Broady was arrested. He is also accused of being involved in transporting and harboring a juvenile who had run away from a boarding school outside Washington.
On May 15, 2025, Broady appeared for arraignment on an indictment charging him with transporting an adult to engage in prostitution and sex trafficking through force, fraud and coercion. He pleaded not guilty to the indictment.
On July 14, 2025, Broady’s trial will begin. He remains detained at the FDC SeaTac.
FDC SeaTac
Opened in 1997, the FDC SeaTac was designed for a capacity of 1000 inmates. David Sidoo and Ethan Nordean were released from the detention center on December 17, 2020 and on March 3, 2021, respectively.
In 2017, Nordean started attending rallies in Seattle and Portland that were organized by the far right group Patriot Prayer. In 2019, the FBI named Sidoo as one of the perpetrators in a criminal conspiracy scandal to influence undergraduate admissions decisions at U.S. universities.
An alumnus of The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Sidoo paid other people to impersonate his two sons and take the scholastic assessment test in the U.S. He pleaded guilty to fraud on March 13, 2020, was sentenced to 90 days in prison on July 15, 2020 and reported to FDC SeaTac on September 23, 2020.
A member of the Proud Boys, Nordean was arrested for his participation in the attack of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021 and sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2023. He is currently at the Federal Correctional Institution, Coleman in Coleman, Florida, USA.
