Foreign businessman arrested after masseuse claims forced sex at Lynnwood hotel

Published 8:07 pm Monday, December 5, 2011

LYNNWOOD — A businessman from the United Arab Emirates was arrested Saturday for investigation of rape after allegedly having sex with a woman who told authorities she only intended to give him a massage.

The woman told police she agreed to give the man a massage after he answered an ad she had taken out on a website, according to court papers.

She told police that he forced her to have sex with him after she entered his Lynnwood hotel room on Nov. 30.

The suspect told police that the sex was consensual and he paid the woman $100. He also said that two men collected more money from him the next day on behalf of the woman.

The man, 51, told a Lynnwood police officer that said he was in the United States to assist with the purchase and delivery of a Boeing airplane.