A Washington County man is in jail on charges of promoting prostitution and false imprisonment.
Police arrested 32 year old Nikolas Breland of Monongahela Sunday night after they received texts from an 18 year old woman saying she needed help and was being held against her will in the 700 block of West Main Street.
The woman told police that she met Breland about a year ago on a dating app while she was living in New Jersey.
She claimed they had been living in hotels, and Breland would ask her to have sex with other people.
She also said that Breland had sexually assaulted her.
According to the complaint, the woman told investigators that when she told Breland she wanted to go back home, he would physically assault her and hold a knife to her neck.
Breland is in the Washington County Jail and due for a preliminary hearing on December 7th.
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