DeLay and Comer’s trial set for March 30

After a case-setting hearing on Tuesday, the trial date for David DeLay and Marysa Comer has been scheduled for March 30.

After a case-setting hearing on Tuesday, the trial date for David DeLay and Marysa Comer has been scheduled for March 30.

As previously reported, DeLay, 48, was arrested Jan. 12 at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport after arriving on a flight from Chicago. He was charged with three counts of promoting prostitution in the second degree, one count of extortion in the second degree, one count of tampering with a witness and trafficking.

Comer, 20, was DeLay’s partner and was arrested on Jan. 13 at a Chicago hotel and was booked into Cook County Jail in Chicago. She returned to Washington and was booked into the Seattle Correctional Facility on Jan. 29 for failure to appear and promoting prostitution in the second degree, said Janessa Rosick, public information coordinator for the Redmond Police Department.

As previously reported, Comer was charged with three counts of promoting prostitution in the second degree, one count of extortion in the second degree, one count of tampering with a witness, cyberstalking and criminal impersonation in the first degree.

According to an earlier report, Rosick said DeLay and Comer targeted teenaged girls and young women by giving them the impression that they would be entering a romantic relationship and participating in a documentary film about how escorting should be legal in the United States.

The report states that according to charging documents, DeLay and Comer used the guise of a production company to “lure young women into prostitution and as cover to deflect inquiry from law enforcement and others. In addition, the defendants also formed intimate relationships with at least two victims in an effort to manipulate and control each into prostitution.” The victims were promised $20 million, but were actually being entered into a sex-trafficking ring, according to the report.

As previously reported, DeLay and Comer were arrested just in time as a young women from the Puget Sound area — who had turned 18 that same week — had planned to leave Washington to meet with Comer in Chicago. The two were arrested before the teen could leave the state.