A welcome sign beckons as you enter picturesque Bonney Lake. But just off Highway 410 in the woods behind the city's burgeoning business district, locals say you will see a seedier side.



"I know what the rumor is about Bonney Lake," said Rhiannon Skog-Geffre. " 'Bonney Lake is the easy place to come and live in the woods. It's the easy place to come and steal. It's the easy place to panhandle because there is rich people everywhere.' And I'm not even joking."