King County man pleads guilty to multiple sex offenses | Kent Reporter

A King County man is facing 17 years in federal prison after posing as a teen boy to ultimately commit sexual acts with minor girls in Auburn and various other locations, including Kitsap, Snohomish, Lewis, Clark, Thurston, and Spokane counties and Woodburn, Oregon. On Aug. 8, James “Jake” Harrison Newcomer, 28, pleaded guilty to travel with intent to engage in sexual acts with a minor and two counts of attempted enticement of a minor. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Newcomer was on state supervision following his 30-month prison sentence for two counts of rape of a child when, in January 2024, he cut off his electronic monitoring device and proceeded to meet with various minor girls, including a minor in Auburn. According to court documents, in February 2022, the Auburn Police Department was notified that a minor victim who was born in 2008 ran away overnight. Snapchat messages were then recovered from the minor victim who ran away and a Snapchat user who was later confirmed to be Newcomer. According to documents, Newcomer told the girl how to disable her alarm at her parents’ home, and then made plans to pick her up the day she was reported
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