A 35-year-old Washington state woman reportedly told police she identifies as a 15-year-old boy after she was arrested for sexting and supplying alcohol and drugs to a group of teenage runaways she planned to enter the city with. to leave.
Amanda Dorrough, who went by the name “Taz” among the teens, was charged with “unlawfully harboring minors” after police uncovered a plan to make her flee to Seattle, according to a police report from the Port Angeles Police Department.
The vice principal of Port Angeles High School contacted police on May 4 after two students reportedly came to the office and admitted to the planned runaway, according to the case report.
The deputy principal reportedly told the reporter that the eight students would hang out with Dorrough in a “gully near a church”.
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Items, including “two empty condom packs, an unopened condom, a bra, and an empty cigarette pack with a lighter,” were found by the Port Angeles Police Department where the minors were located in the Amanda Dorrough case, May 2023. (Port Angeles Police Department)
According to the incident report, police had previously received 10 different reports of Dorrough’s involvement with minors. The first reported call was made on April 11, 2023, and a total of 11 calls have been made since then, including the last and most recent call that led to her arrest.
On May 2, two days before the arrest, several officers searched the location of the suspect’s apartment to find the minors.
They saw three teenagers “running across the parking lot away from Dorrough’s apartment.” An officer heard movement from the suspect’s apartment, but was unable to contact anyone after several failed attempts. He then decided to visit the gully where the students allegedly hung out with Dorrough, the report said.
Dorrough was spotted next to one of the students who was identified as a runaway, the case report said.
The next day, May 3, according to the report, police contacted Dorrough and told her the child had run away.
Police also saw four minors “cuddling each other on the floor”. One was on the runaway list and had a juvenile warrant, the report said.
The reviewer believed there was probable cause to arrest Dorrough for “unlawfully harboring a minor” after receiving confirmation that she allegedly knew one of the students was listed as a runaway.
Dorrough later told Clallam County Jail staff that she identified as a 15-year-old and had previously said she identified as a teenage boy, police said. Before Dorrough was arrested, she allegedly told an officer that “she feels teenagers ‘understand’ her better” and that “she identifies better with teenage children,” the report said.
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Clothing and other items were found by the Port Angeles Police Department. (Port Angeles Police Department)
While searching around the location where the minors were found, police found “two empty packs of condoms, an unopened condom, a bra and an empty pack of cigarettes with a lighter,” the report said.
Dorrough’s neighbors had called the police in the past to report that minors were “constantly” entering and leaving the suspect’s apartment, with one saying that Dorrough had been seen shirtless and braless in the hallway with a boy who 13 years old, according to the report.
A client at a therapy clinic reported receiving a tip that Dorrough was in a ‘sexting relationship with a 12-year-old’ and had been ‘entered into the Boys & Girls Club by staff over alleged ‘predatory’ behaviour,’ police said . .
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An unopened condom pack, lighter and other items were identified by police. (Port Angeles Police Department)
A runaway parent reported finding her daughter at Dorrough’s home, and the daughter told an officer she had smoked “shiny” marijuana in the suspect’s apartment, which she thought was herb, and had vodka drunk. According to the police, the daughter also used meth.
Another report from a parent told police she tracked her son’s phone, which revealed his location was near Dorrough’s apartment, but police were unable to locate her son once they arrived at the house.
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A bra can be seen at the place where the minors were found. (Port Angeles Police Department)
Seattle Radio host Jason Rantz, who originally covered the case, stated in an article that a child alleged victim said the suspect told him she liked him, and when he didn’t reciprocate the feeling, she became upset and almost committed suicide. .”
Dorrough was charged with distributing a controlled substance (marijuana/cannabis) to a minor and posted bail on May 14, the article said.