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THE SNOHOMISH COUNTY NEXUS: How Two Local High Schoolers Swapped High School for Nikita Tyukalo’s Trafficking Ring

A pair of Class of 2026 students from Lake Stevens and Monroe are named co-conspirators — as yet uncharged — in Nikita Tyukalo’s Bellevue Mansion Party / human trafficking scandal

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Jun 16, 2026
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BELLEVUE — The ongoing prosecution of 21-year-old Nikita Tyukalo has pulled back the curtain on the horrifying OnlyFans and Chaturbate content mill, trafficking in local teen girls and operating out of multi-million dollar Bellevue mansions.

But while the headlines focus on Tyukalo’s $5,000,000 bail and charges of Leading Organized Crime and Second-Degree Human Trafficking, a deeply unsettling local connection hits directly in our backyard.

Newly obtained King County Superior Court documents reveal that two Snohomish County teenagers—Karmine Ohlde of Lake Stevens and Kaiden Kingsley of Monroe, both members of the Class of 2026—were operating inside the inner circle of Tyukalo’s criminal enterprise — and tasked with sourcing the the girls targeted for trafficking.

Prosecutors named both Ohlde and Kingsley as uncharged criminal co-conspirators and witnesses in the official Case Summary and Request for Bail filed on June 8, 2026.

Details revealed in the Bellevue Police Department’s probable cause docs raise questions about how local students became integrated into an illicit pipeline built on the systemic abuse, isolation, and exploitation of young women — a criminal organization whose leader sits in County Jail facing a possible sentence of Life in prison.

“Talent Scouts and Trusted Employees”

The full extent of Ohlde and Kingsley’s involvement is detailed in a victim interview exclusively obtained by J425.

A victim identified as ML — who also identifies herself as Kingsley’s then-girlfriend — describes the situation on the ground in the Bellevue content house. As documented in the probable cause filings, ML established that Tyukalo, Cory Connor, and Kamal Muhammad wielded the executive “power” within Nova Talent Management LLC, while Kingsley and Ohlde occupied critical operational roles. Specifically, ML said they operated as “trusted employees,” specifically tasked with

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