A 21-year-old man wanted by the Collin County Sheriff's Office on a charge of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child younger than 14 was arrested this week roughly 2,000 miles from Texas, in a residential block near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Dombraye Pamosoo was taken into custody Monday without incident in the 2600 block of South 161st Street in SeaTac, Washington, and is now being held at King County Jail while he awaits extradition back to Collin County.
The Collin County Sheriff's Office issued an arrest warrant for Pamosoo on May 27, according to a release from the U.S. Marshals Service. To track him down, the agency's Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force was called in to help locate him, and investigators eventually determined he was somewhere in the greater Seattle area. That lead was passed along to the U.S. Marshals Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force, which operates out of the Western District of Washington and unites 27 federal, state, and local partner agencies across Washington, Oregon, and Alaska, per the U.S. Marshals Service.
Two Task Forces, One Fugitive
The collaboration between the two task forces — one rooted in East Texas, the other covering the Pacific Northwest — is what ultimately closed the gap between Collin County and SeaTac. The Joint East Texas Fugitive Task Force, established in 2004, has cleared more than 26,000 felony warrants and captured over 20,000 fugitives across Eastern and North Texas, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. That track record made it the natural first call when Collin County needed help finding Pamosoo.
What Comes Next For Pamosoo
As reported by the Collin County Sheriff's Office McKinney, Texas on Facebook, Pamosoo remains in King County custody pending extradition to Texas. Under Article 51.13 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, known as the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, an out-of-state fugitive in local custody must either sign a voluntary waiver of extradition or be held until a formal Governor's Warrant passes between the two states' executive authorities, according to Justia Law. It remains unresolved whether Pamosoo will contest that process in King County Superior Court or waive extradition to speed his return to Texas.
The charge Pamosoo faces carries some of the heaviest penalties in the Texas Penal Code. Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child is a first-degree felony under Section 21.02, carrying a mandatory minimum of 25 years and up to 99 years or life without parole, along with lifetime sex offender registration, per Deandra Grant Law. The statute was created under Jessica's Law in 2007 specifically so prosecutors could charge repeat offenders without needing a jury to agree unanimously on the exact dates or individual acts, so long as two or more qualifying acts occurred against a child under 14 over a span of at least 30 days.
A Pattern Of Aggressive Local Prosecution
Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis's office has built a consistent record on this exact charge, regularly securing sentences of 40 to 60 years or life without parole for defendants convicted of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child, according to Collin County. The Collin County Sheriff's Office, led by Sheriff Jim Skinner since 2017, polices an 880-square-mile jurisdiction of more than 1.1 million residents and maintains dedicated fugitive and cybercrime task forces working alongside federal partners.
The case adds to a string of major child abuse prosecutions the county has pursued in recent months. In July, Collin County authorities arrested a former Plano ISD elementary teacher on similar continuous sexual abuse charges, a case that led to a $1 million civil lawsuit against the school district filed this month, as reported by Texas Scorecard. Hoodline has also covered other Collin County continuous-abuse cases that ended in decades-long or life sentences, including a life-without-parole verdict handed down in March.
The arrest also fits a broader pattern of enforcement activity for the Pacific Northwest task force, which conducted a five-day regional compliance check across Washington state in late July, executing 87 sex offender checks to mark the 20th anniversary of the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Anyone with information on wanted fugitives is urged to contact the nearest U.S. Marshals office, the U.S. Marshals Service Communications Center at 1-800-336-0102, or the USMS Tips App.
