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Registered sex offender pleads guilty after cutting ankle monitor, abusing 10 PNW teens
KOIN ^ | Aug 8, 2025 | Michaela Bourgeois

Posted on 08/08/2025 4:38:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A registered sex offender pleaded guilty to federal charges in Seattle on Friday after sexually abusing teenage girls in Washington and Oregon, authorities announced.

The United States Department of Justice said 28-year-old James “Jake” Harrison Newcomer admitted to sexually abusing 10 teen girls he met through social media between February and April of 2024.

According to records filed in the case, Newcomer was on state supervision after more than two years in prison for two counts of rape of a child.

Coos Bay cop checked TikTok, text messages during suspect’s fatal meth overdose, lawsuit claims As part of his supervision, Newcomer was monitored with an ankle bracelet.

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On January 19, 2024, however, the monitor lost connection and when officers went to arrest Newcomer on January 25, 2025, he had left the home and could not be found, the DOJ said.

Over the next three months, Newcomer posed as a teen boy online and contacted teen girls on social media, authorities explained.

Supervisor hospitalized after stabbing on TriMet paratransit vehicle After arranging to meet the girls in person, Newcomer gave them drugs and alcohol and sexually assaulted them, officials said, noting the victims, who were between the ages of 12 and 16, were from King, Kitsap, Snohomish, Lewis, Clark, Thurston and Spokane counties and Woodburn, Oregon.

Newcomer pleaded guilty to traveling with intent to engage in sexual acts with a minor and two counts of attempted enticement of a minor.

Authorities noted that travel with the intent to engage in sexual acts is punishable by up to 30 years in prison and enticement of a minor is punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and up to life in prison.

Prosecutors and defense recommend Newcomer receive 17 years in prison when sentenced in November 2025, the DOJ said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: jakenewcomer; jamesnewcomer; seattle
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1 posted on 08/08/2025 4:38:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Ankle monitors are like restraining orders.


2 posted on 08/08/2025 4:40:13 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: nickcarraway

What the heck is a PNW teen?


3 posted on 08/08/2025 4:44:23 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

PNW = Pacific Northwest, so Washington, Oregon.


4 posted on 08/08/2025 4:45:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Beowulf9

Pacific Northwest


5 posted on 08/08/2025 4:45:25 PM PDT by kdr3 (Make America normal again!)
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Coos Bay cop checked TikTok, text messages during suspect's fatal meth overdose…

So he had a fatal overdose and he came back to life?

6 posted on 08/08/2025 4:45:26 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Apparently the original poster included a teaser link to another story in this post.


7 posted on 08/08/2025 5:01:10 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: ConservativeMind

Confused me, too....


8 posted on 08/08/2025 5:01:35 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: nickcarraway

This guy needs to be deweinered, no question. Where is Lorena Bobbitt when you need her?


9 posted on 08/08/2025 5:05:23 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: nickcarraway

2 years in prison for the rape of a CHILD??? The judge in that case has that child’s blood on his/her hands, not to mention the 10 new victims!


10 posted on 08/08/2025 5:12:45 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Is that even illegal on the west coast? They love grooming children here.


11 posted on 08/08/2025 6:02:21 PM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: nickcarraway

“Bad Seed”.

Lock him up for life, or kill him.


12 posted on 08/08/2025 6:07:28 PM PDT by dadgum (Fight to WIN or do not fight at At all)
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Oregon is run by DEMONcrats…..especially in Portland and the north coast. They believe child rape is fine. They thrive in the school system. It’s full of pedophiles.
It’s just abominable! I’m sure plenty of judges in northwest Oregon are pedophiles themselves. That whole area should just be euthanized because it’s rotting! No morality grows there.


13 posted on 08/08/2025 6:12:57 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Here’s an idea! Exploding ankle monitors. If you try to cut them off Ka-Boom!


14 posted on 08/08/2025 6:35:02 PM PDT by The Sentient Sheep
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To: nickcarraway

AND, the people who put him on that ankle bs instead of IN JAIL needs to be sued.


15 posted on 08/08/2025 6:55:31 PM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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I think by law they can’t be sued.


16 posted on 08/08/2025 6:57:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Beowulf9

Don’t you love the use of TLA’s?


17 posted on 08/08/2025 7:10:57 PM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: nickcarraway

PWND!


18 posted on 08/08/2025 9:44:51 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: nickcarraway
Authorities noted that travel with the intent to engage in sexual acts is punishable by up to 30 years in prison

It is? Is it the anti-booty-call law?

19 posted on 08/08/2025 10:25:54 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: TXBlair
Right, officiials need to do some cutting, themselves
20 posted on 08/09/2025 4:47:53 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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