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Airway Heights Police Detective Kelly Justice said Friday that Birkland was arrested because prosecutors hadn’t heard from her as investigators look to wrap up legal action against the businesses within the next month. The investigation was launched by the Airway Heights Police Department, which began recruiting suspected prostitutes as confidential informants to go after the ring-leaders of the alleged racket. Montana’s was one of eight alleged Spokane brothels raided during Operation Red Light in 2012, a multiagency bust of businesses catering to pay-for-sex customers that was launched after complaints from Northern Quest Casino personnel.

She previously was arrested on charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering. Police arrested her after prosecutors, looking to wrap up the long-running case, were unable to contact her, according to investigators.

The owner of an alleged brothel in Spokane Valley is back in jail and faces new charges of leading organized crime, a class A felony punishable by potential life imprisonment, in connection with a series of raids conducted in 2012.īrandy Birkland, 34, former co-owner of Montana’s spa on East Trent Avenue, was booked into Spokane County Jail on Thursday.

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