Seattle residents are asking why a career criminal with 28 arrests and 13 convictions was allowed to walk the streets before allegedly kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl.

Joshua V. Kowalczewski, 36, allegedly lured the girl from a school bus stop in the Northgate neighborhood and dragged her into nearby woods, where he sexually assaulted her.

Kowalczewski was allowed to enter Seattle’s ‘Drug Prosecution Alternative’ diversion program just one week before he allegedly raped the teenage girl.

He was later captured when firefighters saw him defecating on the sidewalk after he burned clothing that was connected to the attack, according to police.

The man was charged with first-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping.

A judge set Kowalczewski’s bail at $1 million after prosecutors argued he was a threat to public safety given his criminal past. That criminal past included convictions for the following:

DUI;Theft;Assault;Drug possession;Criminal trespassing;Violating protection orders; andPossessing burglary tools.

Prosecutors said that Kowalczewski was allowed to enter Seattle’s “Drug Prosecution Alternative” diversion program just one week before he allegedly raped the teenage girl.

The suspect initially denied ever talking to the girl, according to detectives, but then later admitted that he approached the girl because he thought she was “hot.” He also allegedly admitted asking her to go the woods but denied assaulting her.

The girl was treated at the Seattle Children’s Hospital and given a sexual assault examination.

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The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said it pursued rape charges instead of child rape charges because under Washington law, rape charges carry harsher penalties.

The office also explained that it was difficult under state law to hold a suspect based on misdemeanor charges.

“Prosecutors are bound by the sentencing guidelines from state lawmakers; that’s what judges go off of when they make determinations,” communications director Casey McNerthney said. “It’s pretty difficult to hold somebody on a misdemeanor in some instances.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a major bombshell on X this week when he posted that Arcadia, California, Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China in the United States.

“Mayor Wang admitted to acting as a foreign agent from at least 2020 through 2022 — promoting PRC propaganda in the U.S. and acting at PRC’s direction to promote their interests. She has agreed to resign from office and plead guilty,” Patel explained.

“FBI and our federal partners continue to move aggressively to root out this kind of influence in American institutions all over the country,” he added.

Between 2020 and 2022, Wang and her then-fiancé, Yaoning “Mike” Sun, ran a Chinese propaganda website called U.S. News Center, which aimed to publish pro-Beijing content and punish dissidents.

BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere jokes that the situation is “suboptimal” for a mayor.

“You kind of want them to be an agent for your city,” he says.

“It actually says on her website, she’s the daughter of proud immigrants who came to California seeking the American dream,” co-host Dave Landau points out.

“I will say, part of the American dream is making money in illicit fashion. So she’s checked that box off,” Stu says.

“That is the Somalian-American dream,” Dave jokes.

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An infamous serial murderer and rapist said that taxpayer-funded digital tablets allowed him to watch pornography and receive a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student.

That’s just one account in a City Journal investigation into a “digital equity” program pushed by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to ensure prisoners had access to the Bible. And also porn.

Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his ‘family at the beach’ and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

Officials told the Journal that the tablets were “tightly controlled education tools” to provide inmates “access to the Bible, education, and re-entry resources that actually reduce crime.”

The investigation found dozens of death-row inmates who said the tablets allowed them access to pornography as well as sexually explicit conversations.

The program under the Newsom administration tossed $189 million of taxpayer funds to ensure criminals had free access to porn and the Bible online.

Robert Maury, an infamous rapist and serial murderer from the 1980s, did not mention the Bible but told the Journal that a German student sent him topless photos in the hope that he would share his story with her for a psychology class project.

Maury was known as the “tipster killer” because he would call a crime tip line and give law enforcement authorities tips about his crimes before he was captured.

Another serial killer named Samuel Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his “family at the beach” and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

He said guards try to stop sexually explicit texts when they see them but that inmates figure out how to “get around their bulls**t.”

One inmate named Nathaniel Ray Diaz allegedly used a tablet to talk with a girl for hours and sexually exploit her. Diaz is facing new charges related to the alleged child exploitation and was already in Avenal State Prison for sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl.

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Douglas Eckenrod, a former California parole operations director, told the Journal the Diaz case was just the tip of the iceberg.

“I would bet my pension that there’s a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets,” Eckenrod said. “There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed.”

He went on to say that California is simply empowering criminals to groom more victims through the tablets.

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Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt saw his support surge in the first polling since his impressive performance in the contest’s first debate.

Support for Pratt has more than doubled, according to the Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics poll, as compared to March.

The gains made by the top 3 candidates appeared to be from voters who had been undecided, previously at 51% in March.

The former reality TV star had his support jump to 22% after previously garnering only 10%. The 12-percentage-point jump is the highest among all candidates in the poll.

Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass still holds on to the top spot with 30% and saw her support grow from 20% in March. Socialist-aligned Democrat Nithya Raman also made big gains, with 19% support after getting only 9% in March.

The gains made by the top three candidates appeared to be from voters who had been undecided, previously at 51% in March. In the most recent poll, only 16% said they remained undecided.

Pratt pummeled both the incumbent mayor and Raman during the debate last week and mocked their claims that homelessness had decreased because of their liberal programs.

“The reality is, no matter how many beds you give these people, they are on super meth. They are on fentanyl. The DEA statistic says 93% of this is a drug addiction problem,” Pratt said during the debate.

“I will go below the Harbor Freeway tomorrow with [Raman], and we can find some of these people she’s going to offer treatment for,” he added. “She’s going to get stabbed in the neck!”

Raman, a city councilwoman, appeared unprepared for some of the questions and stumbled in her attempt to differentiate herself from Bass, her former ally.

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Pratt has also been able to score a fundraising victory by beating all other candidates in donations thus far in the campaign.

Prediction market Kalshi recently had Raman’s chances to win the mayoral rate plummeting from a high of 64% all the way down to 14%.

The race is technically nonpartisan, and the primary election will be held on June 2. If any candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, that candidate will be declared the next mayor. However, if no candidate earns more than 50% of the vote in the primary, the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election in November.

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