JULIAN WILLIS ARRESTED IN LAKE STEVENS, CHARGED WITH SIX SEX CRIMES AGAINST A MINOR
Former Kamiak coach and substitute arraigned Friday and charged with five felonies. The 33-year-old is facing 25 years in prison and mandatory sex offender registry
DEVELOPING STORY: JULIAN WILLIS ARRESTED IN LAKE STEVENS, CHARGED WITH SIX SEX CRIMES AGAINST A MINOR.
UPDATE: 10:00 pm Friday - Julian Willis bonded out of Snohomish County Jail moments ago. Conditions of his release are not yet known.
Previously: Former Kamiak football coach arrested in Lake Stevens Thursday evening, booked into Snohomish County Jail.
The TikTok slinging substitute faces 25+ years in prison with a child molestor jacket.
Willis, 33, is charged with six sex crimes involving a minor – all require mandatory sex offender registry
Arraigned Friday in Everett, Willis was officially charged with five counts of felony sexual misconduct and held on $7500 bail.
Lake Stevens and Mukilteo Police departments collaborated on the arrest – Mukilteo took the collar
Willis turned up heat on himself two weeks ago after he approached and followed 16-year-old LS girl on foot and via car
Teenager ID’d Willis, surreptitiously took his pic while he hit on her, declaring himself single. After J425 published her account, several other LS incidents came to light, including another incident with a 16-year-old-girl
Also - new details first reported in the Lynnwood Times reveal Willis was disciplined in December for harassing another Kamiak teenager footnote.
Willis was told not to comment on student appearances, district allowed him to substitute in January, providing him means and opportunity to commit another sex crime against a minor student
Investigations continue in Mukilteo SD: Federal, state probes likely ongoing. District needs to answer how the football program failed to supervise Willis and protect the victim - a student vounteer.
Other questions remain regarding allegations of other relationships and the manner in which Willis was able to pull the victim out of class in plain view of teachers and students for the sole purpose of abusing her in an empty portable.
LAKE STEVENS - It took three months to get where he was going, but Julian Willis finally arrived behind bars. And he better get comfortable with the new surroundings: with the charges he’s facing, it appears likely he’ll be dining on prison goulash for a long time.
Lake Stevens and Mukilteo police descended on Willis at 4:14 pm Thursday, at a residence in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Lake Stevens, arresting the former Kamiak football coach “without incident”.
Willis was booked into Snohomish County Jail on a total of six minor-involved sex crimes – five of which are Class C Felonies.
Prosecutors followed up quickly: Willis was arraigned Friday in Everett and charged with five counts of Sexual Misconduct with a Minor in the First Degree, a Class C Felony; and one count of Communication with a Minor for Immoral Purposes, a Gross Misdemeanor.
Each felony sexual misconduct charge carries with it up to five years in prison and a $25,000 fine. The communicating with a minor charge adds on another year, along with another $5k.
All six charges include lifetime mandatory sex offender registry requirements.
Update: Willis reportedly made bond moments ago, at 10:00 pm Friday night.
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