A previously confidential Seattle City Attorney’s Office report shows a city prosecutor admitted to moving her husband’s car and refusing to answer police questions after her husband was accused in a string of massage parlor rapes.

Accused of raping four women and attempting to rape a fifth, Danford “Dan” Grant was arrested in September 2012 after dashing away from a Greenwood massage parlor. King County prosecutors claim Grant, a founding partner in a Seattle law firm and onetime assistant city attorney, told his victims he was a police officer and pulled a knife on at least two of the women during a string of attacks in the months before his arrest.

Now, a recently released city attorney’s office report shows Jennifer Grant – then a supervising prosecutor with that office – moved her husband’s Honda Pilot following his arrest on rape charges. Jennifer Grant has since resigned from the city attorney’s office, where she’d worked since the mid-1990s.

Writing the court, Dan Grant’s attorney, Richard Hansen, claimed his client’s wife moved the car because it was parked in “a dangerous neighborhood” – off of Northwest 85th Street in the Greenwood neighborhood of North Seattle. A month passed before Jennifer Grant directed police to the SUV, which she moved first to her aunt’s home in Auburn and then to another North Seattle street.

Investigators hired by the city attorney’s office prior to Jennifer Grant’s resignation opined that her decision to move the SUV only served to hinder detectives investigating a series of violent rapes. Those investigators found the claim that the SUV was in jeopardy unpersuasive.

Danford Grant is escorted from a courtroom after his arraignment on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Seattle. Photo by KOMO-TV Danford Grant is escorted from a courtroom after his arraignment on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Seattle. Photo by KOMO-TV Image 1 of / 4 Caption Close Ex-Seattle prosecutor admits to hiding car after husband charged in massage parlor rapes 1 / 4 Back to Gallery

“There is no evidence to support the claim that the Pilot or its contents were at risk of loss or damage if they remained where Dan parked the vehicle,” the investigators found, according to a previously confidential report recently filed with the court by King County prosecutors. “To the extent the vehicle needed protection, law enforcement was more than capable of securing it.”

While no one has claimed that evidence was taken from the SUV, Hansen said in court papers that any evidence recovered from the SUV may not be admissible at trial.

Prosecutors contend Jennifer Grant may have removed her husband’s wedding ring from the SUV. Police do not appear to have recovered a knife Dan Grant is suspected of using during several attacks.

Dan Grant is alleged to have raped four women during a series of assaults in the summer and fall of 2012. Facing at least 45 years in prison if convicted, Grant is described by police as a serial rapist “obsessed with Asian women,” who preyed on immigrant masseuses.

“The voluminous evidence in this case paints a striking picture of the defendant’s compulsive and violent sexual assaults of numerous women in three cities across King County,” Senior Deputy Prosecutors Val Richey and Corinn Bohn said in court papers. The prosecutors went on to describe Grant as “a profound danger to the community.”

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