Punishment
ATM skimmer sentenced to four years in prison
SEATTLE -- A Sammamish man arrested last year while attempting to retrieve a skimming device from an Everett cash machine was sentenced Friday to four years in federal prison.
Date: 05/26/2012 | Local News
2 1/2 years for fatal wreck
Mother sentenced for drunken crash that killed son
Date: 05/24/2012 | Local News
DNA helps convict man in 1998 rape of teacher
EVERETT -- From the moment she heard his voice, her life would never be the same. She learned to be afraid.Walking into empty rooms, sudden sounds, being alone or in crowds and encountering any unfamiliar men filled her with fear.
Date: 05/21/2012 | Local News
Man sentenced to 45 years for shooting death
EVERETT -- Brian Jones was executed and left to die in a cluttered south Everett apartment. His methamphetamine addiction led him to the apartment that morning on Jan. 2, 2011. It also put him in the path of Joshua Monson, an armed and violent meth addict.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Local News
Kids get free trip to jail
EVERETT -- Nate Johnson, 12, flopped face-down on the mat. He lifted his arms behind him and waited for the handcuffs.Snohomish County corrections Sgt. Dan Stites looked at Johnson's mother."You'll love this, Mom," Stites said.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Local News
Fired corrections officer sentenced for assault of wife
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge on Wednesday urged a former Monroe corrections officer to make positive changes in his life while he is locked up for abusing his wife.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Local News
Woman sentenced for crash that killed three
COUPEVILLE -- A Langley woman was sentenced Friday to more than 5 1/2 years in prison for a November crash that took the lives of three young men.
Date: 03/31/2012 | Local News
Marysville man gets 12 years for drug trafficking
SEATTLE -- A Marysville man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in a federal prison for his role in a multinational drug trafficking ring.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Local News
Justice in 1979 killing
Man sentenced after long-held secret finally revealed
Date: 03/23/2012 | Local News
Pedersen sentenced to life in prison for killings
EVERETT -- They could have given into the hate and rage that led David "Joey" Pedersen to kill four people in three states.Instead, they chose on Friday to focus on the people they love and how their lives were made better because of them.
Date: 03/16/2012 | Local News
No remorse for slayings
Details of David 'Joey' Pedersen's evaluation released
Date: 03/14/2012 | Local News
Snohomish man gets 10 years in shooting
EVERETT -- A Snohomish man was sentenced Thursday to a decade behind bars for opening fire on another man he once considered his friend.
Date: 03/09/2012 | Local News
Guilty plea in stabbings
Girl locked up for 13 years for attacking Snohomish students
Date: 03/07/2012 | Local News
Arlington man sentenced to 3 years for possessing guns as a felon
SEATTLE -- An Arlington man was sentenced Thursday to three years in federal prison for illegal gun possession.Federal prosecutors alleged that Irvin J. Moreno, 23, a convicted felon, sold guns to someone working with law enforcement. Moreno reportedly has ties to a criminal street gang.
Date: 02/24/2012 | Local News
Stanwood man gets 8 1/2 years for 4 felonies, including assault of bound woman
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge on Wednesday called a Stanwood man a predator who used brute force and degradation to control drug-addicted and vulnerable women.
Date: 02/23/2012 | Local News
Arlington man sentenced to 10 years for shooting that left man with lingering injuries
EVERETT -- An Arlington man swore off guns on Thursday after being sentenced to 10 years in prison for an alcohol-fueled shooting that left another man with serious injuries."I have no intention of touching another gun in my life," Robert Eugene Peterson said.
Date: 02/17/2012 | Local News
Judge scolds lawyers for inmate accused of killing Monroe corrections officer
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge made clear Friday he wants no delays in a key hearing for the inmate accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer.
Date: 01/28/2012 | Local News
No remorse?
Bandit calls case against him 'propaganda,' documents allege
Date: 01/24/2012 | Local News
22-year sentence for Everett beating death
EVERETT -- Beth Piasecki on Friday faced the parents of the man accused of stabbing her son and leaving him to die outside an Everett elementary school in late 2010.The grief on her face mingled with compassion.
Date: 01/21/2012 | Local News
Everett man sentenced in death
EVERETT -- An Everett man who fatally shot another man last year told a judge Thursday that he planned to get an education in prison and come out a better man for the benefit of his children and the rest of society.
Date: 01/20/2012 | Local News
Lawmakers likely to reject prisoners’ early release as money-saver
OLYMPIA -- With lawmakers showing little interest in letting hundreds of prisoners out early to save money, Washington State Reformatory's future as a medium security prison appears less in doubt.
Date: 01/14/2012 | Local News
Former Coupeville woman sentenced in mail fraud case
SEATTLE -- A former Coupeville woman was sentenced Friday to nearly four years in federal prison for scamming an elderly man out of more than $2 million.
Date: 01/07/2012 | Local News
Mill Creek couple sentenced in fraud case
SEATTLE -- Two longtime scam artists from Mill Creek are headed to federal prison after bilking nearly $300,000 from government programs designed to help the poor and people living with disabilities.
Date: 01/07/2012 | Local News
6 years for DUI fatality
Meghan Stivers died when Randy Sedy drove drunk in July
Date: 01/05/2012 | Local News
Colton Harris-Moore's defense will ask judge to take his rocky childhood into account
COUPEVILLE -- Criminal psychologists say Colton Harris-Moore's infamous crime spree was fueled by childhood depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Date: 12/14/2011 | Local News
Woman sentenced to 5 years for Marysville vehicular homicide
EVERETT -- A woman who fatally struck a Lake Stevens man in a Marysville crosswalk last year has learned her fate for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Eric Lucas on Monday sentenced Theresa Ecklund to five years in prison.
Date: 12/13/2011 | Local News
Snohomish barista admits to lewd behavior
EVERETT -- A Snohomish woman has admitted to engaging in lewd behavior while serving coffee drinks at one of the three bikini espresso stands she owns along Highway 99.
Date: 12/10/2011 | Local News
Suspect in Lynnwood rape sentenced to 325 years for Colorado crimes
LYNNWOOD -- The suspect in a 2008 Lynnwood rape case was sentenced Friday to 325 years in prison for sex crimes against women in Colorado.
Date: 12/09/2011 | Local News
Lawmakers look at new way to keep offenders in line
Community corrections officers across the state could employ a new tactic by next spring to get felons on supervision to meet the conditions of their release.The idea is to impose brief but immediate punishment of up to 72 hours in jail for violators.
Date: 12/04/2011 | Local News
Everett man sentenced to four years after he admits to robbing banks ‘out of desperation’
EVERETT -- Harold Massena was desperate.He couldn't find work. His unemployment benefits had run out. He was behind on his rent and facing eviction. Massena, a diabetic with heart problems, believed that if he was forced out on the street, he would die.
Date: 11/22/2011 | Local News
Seattle doctor will not face death penalty in fatal stabbings of partner, son
SEATTLE -- King County prosecutor Dan Satterberg has announced he will not seek the death penalty against the Seattle doctor accused of fatally stabbing his partner and their 2-year-old son.
Date: 11/21/2011 | Northwest
Tulalip Tribes member must repay $400,000
TULALIP -- A Tulalip Tribal member has been ordered to pay back nearly $400,000 that was embezzled from the tribal smoke shop.Angela Jones Ver Hoeven, 46, also was sentenced to six months in prison, six months of home detention and three years of federal probation.
Date: 11/18/2011 | Local News
Man gets 18 years for role in Everett killing
EVERETT -- He sat between his mom and grandmother, petting a black Labrador retriever named Stilson.
Date: 11/14/2011 | Local News
Final defendant sentenced in Everett home invasion robbery
EVERETT -- The fourth and final defendant in a 2010 home invasion robbery at an apartment on W. Casino Road was sentenced to nearly 3 1/2 years in prison.
Date: 11/10/2011 | Local News
Texas court puts off execution because of legal change
HOUSTON -- Texas' highest criminal court gave a reprieve Monday to a convicted murderer who had been scheduled to be executed this week, saying it needs time to review changes to a state law that his attorneys contend clear the way for new DNA testing in his case.
Date: 11/08/2011 | Nation & World
Supreme Court will hear appeals of life terms for inmates 14 and younger
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider putting a new national limit on life prison terms for juveniles age 14 or younger.
Date: 11/07/2011 | Nation & World
Marysville man sentenced for filing falsified tax returns
SEATTLE -- A Marysville man was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for preparing and submitting more than 200 falsified tax returns for military service members in the Marysville area.
Date: 11/04/2011 | Local News
Monroe man sentenced to 18 years for murder of woman
EVERETT -- The girl has been told that her mom got sick and won't be coming home.The 8-year-old isn't convinced. She tells the grown-ups her mom is playing a joke. Her mom will come back for her.
Date: 11/02/2011 | Local News
Families face difficult questions when family member is released from prison
It's a trail of terror, with twists, turns and questions still unanswered. When I think of the nightmarish case of a slain Everett couple and the murders of two other men, one question looms large.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Local News
Everett woman given suspended sentence for bigamy
EVERETT -- An Everett woman received a suspended jail sentence Thursday for attempting to have two husbands.Holly Lovett, 31, pleaded guilty earlier this year to attempted bigamy. Prosecutors alleged that Lovett married a man in December 2009 while she was still married to another man.
Date: 10/13/2011 | Local News
U.S. Supreme Court justices critical of lawyers who dropped ball on death row inmate's appeal
WASHINGTON -- The tale of returned mail and a missed deadline might seem comical if it did not involve a man trying to stave off execution. Supreme Court justices had harsh words Tuesday for lawyers who abandon their clients and a state legal system that does not seem overly concerned.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
No more fancy meals for condemned inmates in Texas
HOUSTON — Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.
Date: 09/22/2011 | Nation & World
Georgia executes Troy Davis; supporters claim injustice
JACKSON, Ga. — Defiant until the end, Troy Davis was executed Wednesday night for the murder of an off-duty police officer. He convinced hundreds of thousands of people around the world, but not a single court, that he was innocent.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Nation & World
Snohomish man sentenced to 5 years for ramming police vehicles
EVERETT -- A Snohomish man accused of driving into police vehicles was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison.
Date: 09/16/2011 | Local News
Fired prison employee gets 6-month term for sex with inmate
EVERETT -- A former corrections officer is headed to jail for her relationship with an inmate at the Washington State Reformatory.
Date: 09/16/2011 | Local News
Former Mongols biker gang boss gets 14 years
LOS ANGELES — A judge sentenced the former leader of the Mongols motorcycle gang to a 14-year prison sentence in a case accusing members of murder, drug trafficking and violent attacks, the Associated Press learned after inquiring about last week's secret hearing.
Date: 09/14/2011 | Nation & World
Everett man’s prison sentence delayed while gang tattoos are removed
EVERETT -- An Everett man was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison for his part in a 2010 robbery-turned-homicide at an apartment building on W. Casino Road.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Local News
12 years for slaying suspect
Arlington man given sentence below standard range
Date: 08/25/2011 | Local News
Man sentenced to 5 years for stealing tractor to bail girlfriend out of jail
EVERETT -- Nathan Lee Lafromboise will have to wait a little longer to be with the love of his life -- the woman he once bailed out of jail with proceeds from selling a Kubota lawn tractor he stole from a Methodist church.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Local News
Man sentenced to 9 months for assault in Snohomish bar
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge wasn't buying Craig Gilbert's story on Wednesday.Either Gilbert bashed a man over the head with a beer bottle during a 2009 bar fight in downtown Snohomish, or he knows who did and is covering up for a friend.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Local News
Man sentenced to 53 years for Everett murder
EVERETT -- Eric Lowe admitted Tuesday that his lifestyle caught up with him.Lowe, a gang member who goes by "Icky," has racked up a list of felonies in his young life. He's mainly been convicted of drug and property crimes that landed him in the county jail.
Date: 08/24/2011 | Local News
Ex-Granite Falls police chief sentenced for scamming disabled people
SEATTLE -- A former longtime Granite Falls police chief was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for a scam that bilked more than $625,000 from developmentally disabled people.
Date: 08/12/2011 | Local News
Everett man follows gang to prison with 2½-year term
EVERETT -- An Everett man with ties to a street gang whose members have been busted in recent months for murder, drug trafficking and robbery is headed to federal prison for illegal gun possession.
Date: 08/11/2011 | Local News
Prosecutor won’t need to explain decision to seek execution for Scherf, judge rules
EVERETT -- A judge on Wednesday declined to order Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Roe to spell out why he decided to seek the death penalty for a convicted rapist accused of killing Monroe corrections officers Jayme Biendl.
Date: 08/03/2011 | Local News
Man gets 15 years for home invasion robbery
EVERETT -- It stands to reason that if Nicholas Brunson was bullied and belittled his whole life, as he and his lawyer were claiming, the teen would have compassion for his disabled neighbor, a Snohomish County judge said.
Date: 07/30/2011 | Local News
Prosecutors petition to keep suspect in cold-case killings locked up
EVERETT — The suspect in two 1995 cold-case homicides isn't expected to be freed on Friday now that King County prosecutors have petitioned to keep him locked up under the state's sexually violent predator laws.
Date: 07/27/2011 | Local News
Gang member headed to prison
SEATTLE -- The third gang member busted last year in a federal drug sting is headed to prison for 5 1/2 years.
Date: 07/23/2011 | Local News
Monroe man who secretly taped sexual encounters with women gets five years in prison
EVERETT -- A Monroe man who secretly taped his sexual encounters with dozens of women is headed to prison where he'll likely be on camera around-the-clock.
Date: 07/15/2011 | Local News
Lynnwood street racer sentenced to 2 years for fatal wreck
A 2009 race in the street that ended in death led to a nearly two-year prison sentence Thursday for a Lynnwood man.
Date: 07/14/2011 | Local News
15-year sentence for Spokane Valley shooting
SPOKANE -- A man who shot another man in the head because the shooter mistakenly thought the victim was a sex offender was sentenced Tuesday in Spokane to more than 15 years in prison on assault and gun convictions.
Date: 07/13/2011 | Northwest
Teen gets 15 years for attack on disabled Lynnwood man
EVERETT -- His first felony conviction has earned an Edmonds teen a long stretch behind bars.Trevor Jones, 19, was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for a violent home-invasion robbery that left a disabled man bloodied and battered.
Date: 07/12/2011 | Local News
Oregon judge signs order for mental evaluation of death row inmate
SALEM, Ore. -- A judge has formally ordered the Oregon Health Authority to evaluate the mental capacity of inmate Gary Haugen, who has said he wants to give up further appeals and proceed with his execution.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Northwest
Appeals court orders review in death penalty case of Idaho serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan
BOISE, Idaho -- The life of a man convicted of kidnapping, torture and murder might be spared after an appeals court has ruled that Joseph Edward Duncan III should have been given a competency hearing before he was allowed to waive his appeal.
Date: 07/11/2011 | Nation & World
Texas executes Mexican after high court stay is rejected
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Mexican national was executed Thursday for the rape-slaying of a teenager after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a White House-supported appeal to spare him in a death penalty case where Texas justice triumphed over international treaty concerns.
Date: 07/07/2011 | Nation & World
Bookkeeper who stole $200,000 sentenced to a year in prison
EVERETT -- A bookkeeper who stole roughly $200,000 from a Snohomish company was sentenced Thursday to a year in prison and ordered to pay restitution.
Date: 06/30/2011 | Local News
Inmate: Feed me, jailor
EVERETT -- This just in: Jail is the pits.Isn't that kind of the point?One inmate at Snohomish County Jail is particularly unhappy about the grub there. He wrote us last week. His signature is illegible, so I can't run his criminal record.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Sirens
Brutal attack on disabled man with stun gun, hammer results in 14-year prison sentence
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge wasn't swayed by the 20-year-old man's demons.Joseph Ricks' addiction to methamphetamine may have driven him to take part in a brutal attack on a disabled man, but it wasn't going to save him from a lengthy prison sentence.
Date: 06/23/2011 | Local News
Ex-mortgage CEO sentenced to prison for $3B fraud
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The CEO of what had been one of the nation's largest privately held mortgage lenders was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison for his role in a $3 billion scheme that officials called one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Nation & World
Mental health court could help when jail isn't the right answer
EVERETT -- For reasons that are difficult to understand, he is compelled to talk to his ex-wife.He knows he shouldn't. He knows he's forbidden from calling her or showing up at her doorstep. He can't seem to help himself.
Date: 06/22/2011 | Local News
Unable to lock him up for good, judge gives man in high-speed chase a 7-year sentence
EVERETT -- A Seattle man is headed back to prison after adding three more felony convictions to the 13 he'd already racked up.
Date: 06/15/2011 | Local News
Man sentenced to 13 years for 'honor killing' of his brother
EVERETT -- Mehdi Matin lugged around his heartbreak for more than two decades before exacting revenge through violent blows.
Date: 06/15/2011 | Local News
Driver sentenced in Seattle Pike Place Market crash
SEATTLE -- A Seattle man who crashed his car into several people at the city's Pike Place Market has been sentenced to 12 months in work release. Travis C. Lipski told police he had smoked a synthetic form of marijuana known as "spice" before the Dec. 16 crash.
Date: 06/12/2011 | Northwest
Two sentenced for car crash that killed 3
COUPEVILLE -- Two Oak Harbor women are headed to prison for their part in a high-speed crash that killed three people, including a soon-to-be father.
Date: 06/11/2011 | Local News
Fatal Everett shooting over drug deal brings 30-year sentence
EVERETT -- Rita Fahie's son is dead because of $2,400.Marquise Brown was shot once in the head last summer during a soured drug deal. The 23-year-old died alone in the street because the painkillers he handed over appeared to be fake.
Date: 06/04/2011 | Local News
Two members of Waco Boys gang sentenced for drug trafficking
SEATTLE -- Two Everett gang members were sentenced Friday in federal court for their part in a drug trafficking operation that peddled highly addictive painkillers in Snohomish County.
Date: 06/04/2011 | Local News
Seattle judge shortens child molesting sentence
SEATTLE -- A man who was convicted of kidnapping and molesting a 6-year-old boy in 2001 in Kirkland had his 30-year sentence reduced to 21 years.A King County Superior Court judge handed the new sentence to Michael Dunn on Friday, following guidelines from an appeals court ruling.
Date: 06/03/2011 | Northwest
Mill Creek couple describe their loss as drunken driver is sentenced
EVERETT -- Jagdish Sharma worries.Sharma worries about his wife, who has lost weight. Nightmares disturb her sleep. She can't seem to focus on anything.He worries about his son's heart, heavy with sorrow. The young man is depressed and sometimes he doesn't leave his room.
Date: 06/03/2011 | Local News
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