Snohomish County deputy charged with child rape
ARLINGTON — A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with third-degree child rape for allegedly having sexual contact with a runaway teenage girl he met online.
Domestic court records show Anthony Zayas, 26, was placed on administrative leave Aug. 6.
Zayas met the girl on Tinder, where she used a fake name and claimed to be 19, according to charging papers. Quoting someone who knew the girl, investigators described her as looking “fourteen or fifteen without makeup,” or “seventeen, if that, with makeup on,” wrote deputy prosecutor Jarett Goodkin. She was 14.
She told police he gave her alcohol. He told investigators he took her word for it — after picking her up late at night at a park in Mount Vernon — that she was an adult, the charges say.
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