Charge: Rapist tried to pimp Seattle cop Undercover detective said sex offender claimed to have ‘many Microsoft and Amazon clients who call him for ladies’

King County prosecutors say Jerry G. Wood Jr. tried to pimp a Seattle police detective working undercover on Aurora Avenue North. King County prosecutors say Jerry G. Wood Jr. tried to pimp a Seattle police detective working undercover on Aurora Avenue North. Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close Charge: Rapist tried to pimp Seattle cop 1 / 5 Back to Gallery

A Seattle-area sex offender accused of offering to pimp an undercover police detective has been charged with promoting prostitution.

Jerry G. Wood Jr. is alleged to have offered to protect the detective in exchange for 40 percent of her prostitution earnings. What protection Wood might have provided is unclear – the 39-year-old was hospitalized rather than jailed after his arrest due to a claimed medical malady.

Writing in court papers, a Seattle Police Department detective said his undercover colleague was walking in the 12300 block of Aurora Avenue North on Jan. 23 when Wood pulled up at 8:30 p.m.

Wood asked the undercover detective who she was working for, according to charging papers. The undercover detective said she was working for herself without a pimp.

First warning the woman that there were police around, Wood offered to provide her with “many Microsoft and Amazon clients who call him for ladies,” the detective told the court.

“They want sex and he would make sure he and (the undercover detective) would work out an arrangement they were both happy with,” the detective told the court.

Wood is alleged to have offered a 60/40 split to begin with, and said he would provide her with purses, a home and “clean people to have sex with.”

Supporting officers arrested Wood at the scene. He has since been jailed in Yakima on an outstanding warrant.

Wood, a Shoreline resident, is a registered sex offender. His criminal history includes convictions for rape, aggravated sexual abuse and drug crimes.

Wood is expected to be returned to King County Jail in coming weeks.

Seattlepi.com reporter Levi Pulkkinen can be reached at 206-448-8348 or levipulkkinen@seattlepi.com. Follow Levi on Twitter at twitter.com/levipulk.