Prosecution
Pot-growing Everett father gets 4 years in prison
EVERETT -- An Everett man convicted of illegally growing marijuana and involving his children in his indoor pot farm was sentenced to more than four years in prison Thursday.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Local News
18 years for wife's killing
Man shot victim 8 times in their Lynnwood-area home
Date: 05/22/2012 | Local News
Accused killer logged lots of complaints
We know that some readers have had their fill of stories about the aggravated murder case involving Byron Scherf, the Monroe inmate accused of killing a Washington State Reformatory corrections officer.
Date: 05/16/2012 | Sirens
Accused pencil-stabber guilty of murder
EVERETT -- Seconds after a Snohomish County jury convicted Joshua Monson of first-degree murder on Wednesday, corrections officers swiftly moved in to shackle his one free hand to a chair.Monson, 28, didn't resist.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Local News
Woman won't face death penalty in Everett killings
EVERETT -- An Oregon woman won't face the possibility of the death penalty for her alleged role in killing an Everett couple, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe said Friday.Holly Grigsby, 25, is charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Local News
Murder trial begins for man accused of lawyer stabbings
EVERETT -- No lawyers were injured on Thursday as a murder trial got under way for an Everett man accused of stabbing three of his previous attorneys.
Date: 04/26/2012 | 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
Investigation complete in death of officer’s daughter
STANWOOD -- Snohomish County sheriff's detectives have wrapped up their investigation into last month's shooting that took the life of a Marysville police officer's young daughter.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Local News
Scherf’s confession played in court for judge
EVERETT -- Byron Scherf calmly sipped a cup of coffee and tried to explain to detectives what came over him the night he is accused of strangling Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl.
Date: 04/11/2012 | Local News
Murder defendant to be restrained during trial
EVERETT -- An Everett man accused of stabbing three attorneys with pencils will be trussed up with leather cuffs and belts and restrained to a chair during his murder trial.
Date: 04/07/2012 | Local News
Drunken drivers who kill face longer prison terms
After she signed the bill, Gov. Chris Gregoire stood up to give Carol Blair a hug and hand her the pen she used to turn a quest for justice into law.The Tacoma woman held a large poster of her daughter by her side.For Frank Blair, Carol's husband, it was a poignant moment.
Date: 04/06/2012 | Local News
Law’s gap complicates holding mentally ill suspect
EVERETT -- Snohomish County prosecutors didn't receive a letter notifying them that an armed robbery suspect living with schizophrenia was free to leave a state mental health hospital until a day after the man was already out on the street.
Date: 04/05/2012 | Local News
New judge keeps schedule for Scherf hearings
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County Superior Court judge on Wednesday declined to reschedule hearings to decide whether a jury will hear the alleged confession of an inmate accused of strangling Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Local News
Argument over rent led to slaying, say prosecutors
EVERETT -- An Arlington woman may have been strangled and later set on fire all because she asked a tenant for overdue rent.
Date: 03/28/2012 | Local News
Ex-Whidbey lawyer pleads guilty to embezzlement
SEATTLE -- A former Whidbey Island lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling more than $1 million from his clients using a mail fraud scheme.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Local News
Judge steps aside in Biendl murder case
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County judge stepped down Friday from the death penalty case against an inmate accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer.
Date: 03/23/2012 | Local News
7 boys face felony charges in alleged assault on bus
MARYSVILLE -- Police are recommending felony charges against seven middle school boys allegedly involved in a sexually motivated assault of a girl on a Marysville school bus in early March.
Date: 03/21/2012 | Local News
Duty weapon not used in girl's shooting
STANWOOD -- The gun involved in the March 10 accidental shooting of a police officer's daughter in Stanwood was not the officer's duty weapon, officials said Tuesday.
Date: 03/20/2012 | Local News
Shootings of 3 kids an anomaly, not a trend, say experts
STANWOOD -- The accidental shootings of three Western Washington children so far this year represent a statistical anomaly rather than a sudden burst of gun violence, according to legal experts and state data.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Local News
Suspect answers to charges in 1999 rape of girl, 14
EVERETT -- For years, the cold case simply was known as State of Washington vs. Individual A.Police and prosecutors had the genetic profile of a suspect in the rape of an Everett girl.What they needed was a name to go with his DNA.
Date: 03/15/2012 | Local News
No remorse for slayings
Details of David 'Joey' Pedersen's evaluation released
Date: 03/14/2012 | Local News
Everett man guilty of illegally growing pot
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County jury on Thursday convicted an Everett man of illegally growing marijuana and enlisting the help of his underage daughters to maintain the clandestine indoor garden.
Date: 03/09/2012 | Local News
Camano man gets 3 years for vehicular homicide
EVERETT -- Nearly two years have come and gone since Ellen Floyd died in a drunken-driving accident on Old Highway 99 north of Stanwood.The agony from what happened that night consumes the teen's family and the family of the young man found guilty of causing her death.
Date: 03/08/2012 | Local News
Guilty plea in stabbings
Girl locked up for 13 years for attacking Snohomish students
Date: 03/07/2012 | Local News
Mukilteo child abuse defendant objects but is sent to hospital for evaluation
EVERETT --The lawyer for a Mukilteo woman accused of starving and beating a girl is concerned his client might not be able to assist in her own defense.
Date: 03/03/2012 | Local News
Marysville man charged with manslaughter after teen’s fatal overdose
MARYSVILLE -- A suspected drug dealer accused of providing a prescription painkiller to a Marysville teenager is now facing serious legal trouble.
Date: 03/01/2012 | Local News
Suspect in stabbings at Snohomish school continues to talk about violent, disturbing acts
SNOHOMISH -- Prosecutors say a Snohomish girl accused of stabbing two fellow students in October continues to talk and write about harming others.
Date: 03/01/2012 | Local News
No death penalty for man accused of killing both grandfathers
COUPEVILLE -- Prosecutors in Island County have decided not to seek the death penalty against an Oak Harbor man accused of killing his two grandfathers in October.
Date: 02/24/2012 | Local News
‘Bigfoot’ charged in slaying of robbery accomplice in Marysville
EVERETT -- Prosecutors in Snohomish County have charged "Bigfoot" with murder.
Date: 02/18/2012 | Local News
Marysville man will be retried in daughter's shooting death
EVERETT -- Prosecutors plan to retry a Marysville man accused of fatally shooting his 6-year-old daughter, Stormy, at their home in 2008.Lawyers on Thursday set an April trial date for Richard Peters. His defense attorney noted that she likely won't be ready by then.
Date: 02/16/2012 | Local News
Camano Island man convicted of vehicular homicide in accident that killed Stanwood teen
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County jury was convinced that a Camano Island man was behind the wheel of a car that crashed in 2010, killing a Stanwood teenager.
Date: 02/16/2012 | Local News
Judge again rebukes lawyers who want him to step down from Byron Scherf’s trial
EVERETT -- For the second time in as many weeks, lawyers for an inmate accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer faced a judge's admonition for their handling of the case.
Date: 02/11/2012 | Local News
Woman who decapitated her dog released after 8 months at state mental health hospital
EVERETT -- A Sultan woman has spent most of the past eight months locked up in a mental health hospital after she was found standing in the middle of the highway holding her dog's severed head.
Date: 02/10/2012 | Local News
13 years for credit union robbery
EVERETT -- A Lynnwood man with a substantial criminal history was sentenced Tuesday to more than 13 years in prison for holding up a credit union in 2009 while wearing some sort of plaster smeared on his face.
Date: 02/08/2012 | Local News
Volunteer youth mentor sentenced for sexual assault
EVERETT -- A Lynnwood man was sentenced Monday to more than 12 years in prison after admitting that he sexually assaulted a boy he met through a high-profile youth mentoring organization.
Date: 02/07/2012 | Local News
Lawyers for man accused in Biendl slaying question judge's fairness
EVERETT -- Lawyers for the prisoner accused of killing Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl for a second time are asking for a new judge.
Date: 02/06/2012 | Local News
Murder suspect accused in lawyer stabbings allegedly assaults corrections officer
EVERETT -- Just a few hours after prosecutors ratcheted up the murder charge against Joshua Monson, the alleged lawyer stabber reportedly assaulted a Snohomish County corrections officer.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Local News
A year after her death
Jayme Biendl's family remembers a beloved oldest sister
Date: 01/29/2012 | 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
Killer finally faces justice
3 decades after woman's slaying, man admits to the crime
Date: 01/27/2012 | Local News
Prosecutors won’t charge Everett man after fatal struggle with theft suspect
EVERETT -- Prosecutors are declining to file charges against a south Everett man for his part in a fatal struggle with a man he suspected of trying to steal his boat motor in July.
Date: 01/24/2012 | Local News
No remorse?
Bandit calls case against him 'propaganda,' documents allege
Date: 01/24/2012 | Local News
Gun fears expressed before fatal Everett shooting
EVERETT -- A week before Quinton Blatchford was found with a gunshot wound to his head, he reported to police that his wife had guns and he was concerned she may harm herself.
Date: 01/24/2012 | Local News
Arlington man pleads guilty to August shooting that debilitated victim
EVERETT -- An Arlington man is facing up to a decade in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to an August shooting that left another man with serious injuries.
Date: 01/18/2012 | Local News
Hearing about Snohomish High stabbing suspect delayed until March
EVERETT -- The decision about whether a Snohomish girl will be tried as an adult for allegations that she attempted to murder a fellow student and assaulted a second has been pushed to March.
Date: 01/13/2012 | Local News
$1 million bail in 'horrific' child pornography case
SNOHOMISH -- Police in Snohomish have seized roughly 30 computers and 60 external hard drives as part of an ongoing child pornography investigation.
Date: 01/06/2012 | Local News
Wife’s bail set at $500,000 in Everett man’s fatal shooting
EVERETT -- Prosecutors have until Wednesday evening to file felony charges against a woman suspected of shooting her husband at their home in Everett last week.
Date: 01/03/2012 | Local News
Harsher penalty for vehicular homicide possible
Over the years, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe has had to explain to grieving families the likely punishment awaiting those who have killed their love ones.
Date: 12/31/2011 | Local News
Suspect in slaying of Everett couple, 2 others, to undergo mental evaluation
EVERETT -- An Oregon man accused of killing an Everett couple and two others is awaiting a mental evaluation.
Date: 12/16/2011 | Local News
County prosecutor won’t pursue manslaughter charge against builder of boat in fatal sinking
LAKE STEVENS -- Prosecutors have declined to file charges against a King County man who police believe knowingly sold an unsafe boat that capsized on Lake Stevens two years ago, killing a woman.
Date: 12/14/2011 | 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
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
Mental exam OK’d for suspect in Everett couple’s deaths
EVERETT -- Defense attorneys for an Oregon man accused of killing an Everett couple want him to be evaluated to determine if he is competent to stand trial.
Date: 12/09/2011 | Local News
Inmate faces sixth allegation of assault
EVERETT -- Inmate Joshua D. Monson was double-booked on Monday.
Date: 12/06/2011 | Local News
Janice Ellis named Snohomish County Superior Court judge
EVERETT -- Former Snohomish County prosecutor Janice Ellis soon will serve as the county's newest Superior Court judge.Gov. Chris Gregoire announced the appointment on Monday.
Date: 12/05/2011 | Local News
Everett man pleads guilty to manslaughter
EVERETT -- An Everett man who fatally shot another man after a party last year on W. Casino Road pleaded guilty Friday to manslaughter.Prosecutors initially charged Anthony R. Devera, 21, with second-degree murder in connection with the Jan. 19 death of Pavel Datskiy, 24, of Lynnwood.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Local News
Former Oak Harbor teen won’t be charged in fire that killed his mother
COUPEVILLE -- No criminal charges will be filed against a former Oak Harbor boy who was suspected of starting a house fire in 2010 that claimed the life of his mother.
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
Boat builder a suspect in accidental 2009 Lake Stevens death
LAKE STEVENS -- A Western Washington boat maker is the target of a criminal investigation into the drowning death of a Lake Stevens woman in July 2009.
Date: 11/17/2011 | Local News
Driver charged in Whidbey crash that killed 3 men
COUPEVILLE -- Prosecutors here have charged a Langley woman, 18, with vehicular homicide in connection with a crash that took the lives of three young men on...
Date: 11/15/2011 | Local News
Ex-lawyer ordered to addiction treatment
EVERETT -- In his 34-year career as a lawyer, Patrick Mullen stood in front of a judge many times to argue on behalf of his clients.On Monday, Mullen's challenge wasn't in making an articulate case. It was proving his sincerity.
Date: 11/14/2011 | Local News
Arrest made in Marysville dognapping
MARYSVILLE -- Police have collared a suspected dognapper, but the strange story of Takoda, the stolen Siberian Husky, isn't over yet.
Date: 11/11/2011 | Local News
Decision on whether to charge stabbing suspect as adult not expected until January
SNOHOMISH -- It likely won't be until January before a judge decides if a Snohomish girl accused of stabbing two fellow students last month will be tried as an adult or if the case will remain in juvenile court.
Date: 11/08/2011 | 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
First of 3 defendants sentenced to 16 years for school-yard killing during drug deal
EVERETT -- Donald Barker handed out cards to family members during the Christmas holiday last year.Each offered a unique message of caring.
Date: 11/07/2011 | Local News
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
Prison bolsters safety
Changes followed murder of corrections officer in Monroe
Date: 11/04/2011 | Local News
Man who allegedly attacked three lawyers is convicted of drug charge
EVERETT -- A man accused of stabbing three of his attorneys and stuck representing himself at trial was convicted of drug possession Thursday.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Local News
Out of lawyers
Man must defend himself, after 3 attorneys allegedly attacked
Date: 11/02/2011 | Local News
Driver who was severely drunk pleads guilty to vehicular homicide in Marysville death
EVERETT -- An Arlington man who drove while his blood-alcohol level was almost four times the legal limit pleaded guilty Wednesday to vehicular homicide and other felony charges connected to a trail of drunken carnage in...
Date: 10/26/2011 | Local News
15-year sentence for Everett home-invasion robbery
EVERETT -- A Texas man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday for a violent home-invasion robbery in Everett, a crime he insisted he knew nothing about.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Local News
Suspects in slaying of Everett couple extradited from California
EVERETT – An Oregon couple has been returned to the city where they are accused of beginning a week-long, tri-state crime spree that left four people dead, including an Everett grandmother and her husband.
Date: 10/18/2011 | Local News
Suspect in Pedersen killings: 'This is what I was born to do'
The white supremacist woman facing capital murder charges connected to an Everett double killing reportedly is bragging that she helped end four lives in three states to send a message.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Sirens
Man pleads guilty to stabbing death in Everett school yard
EVERETT -- A man on Thursday admitted that he took part in the 2010 stabbing and beating death of Donald Barker outside an Everett elementary school.
Date: 10/13/2011 | Local News
Man guilty in Colorado sex crimes may be brought to Snohomish County to face Lynnwood rape charge
The suspect in a 2008 Lynnwood rape case pleaded guilty Thursday to more than two dozen sex crimes in Colorado.
Date: 10/13/2011 | Local News
DeeDee Pedersen's daughters remember day they met couple charged with killings
EVERETT -- The grieving sisters only met the young couple once.David "Red" Pedersen's son seemed friendly enough, even solicitous. David Joseph "Joey" Pedersen, 31, called his dad "Pops." The father and son appeared to be bonding after years of being apart.
Date: 10/11/2011 | Local News
Judge will announce next week if he’ll step down from Byron Scherf’s murder trial
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County Superior Court judge declined to decide Thursday whether he'll step down from overseeing the trial of a convicted rapist accused of killing Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl.
Date: 10/06/2011 | Local News
Oak Harbor man charged in slaying of his grandfather
COUPEVILLE -- An Oak Harbor man was charged Wednesday in connection with his grandfather's slaying. He also is a suspect in the killing of his other grandfather, officials said.
Date: 10/06/2011 | Local News
After almost 25 years in prison, Texas man freed after DNA clears him in wife's slaying
GEORGETOWN, Texas -- A Texas grocery store employee who was wrongly convicted and spent nearly 25 years in prison in his wife's beating death walked free Tuesday after DNA tests showed another man was responsible. His attorneys say prosecutors and investigators deliberately kept evidence out of...
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
'Underwear bomber' suspect starts trial with outburst, asks to wear dagger in court
DETROIT -- A Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down an international jetliner with a bomb in his underwear walked into the start of his federal trial Tuesday and declared that a radical Islamic cleric killed by the U.S. military is alive.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Nation & World
Alleged killer Byron Scherf requests new judge, citing bias
EVERETT -- A convicted rapist charged with killing a Monroe corrections officer wants a new judge to oversee his trial.
Date: 10/04/2011 | Local News
Arlington man charged with vehicular homicide in death of Lake Stevens woman
EVERETT -- An Arlington man whose blood-alcohol level was almost four times the legal limit shortly after a fatal collision told police he saw their patrol car lights and heard sirens but felt they weren't directed at him, according to court papers filed Friday.
Date: 09/30/2011 | Local News
Sentencing rescheduled for former attorney who tried to smuggle drugs to inmate
EVERETT -- Sentencing was postponed Thursday for a former Lynnwood attorney who pleaded guilty to attempting to bring heroin to an inmate inside the Snohomish County Jail.
Date: 09/30/2011 | Local News
Sex offender found guilty in murder of Monroe woman
EVERETT -- A convicted sex offender was found guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday for a 2010 attack on a Monroe woman that began with him breaking a large bottle of hot sauce over her head.
Date: 09/28/2011 | Local News
Final arguments in Monroe murder case
MONROE -- As murder weapons go, it is hard to imagine a more unlikely object: a 23-ounce bottle of Frank's Red Hot hot sauce.
Date: 09/27/2011 | Local News
Risky chase earns Everett man three years in prison
EVERETT -- An Everett man who in May led police on a dangerous high-speed chase from Lake Stevens through north Everett and across the Everett Community College campus was sentenced Monday to nearly three years in prison.
Date: 09/27/2011 | Local News
Local burglar linked to dozens of break-ins
A Bothell man is set to be sentenced in October for his role in orchestrating a burglary ring in Snohomish and King counties. The case was investigated out of Medina, west of Bellevue, so the hearing will be in King County...
Date: 09/26/2011 | Sirens
New trial ordered in manslaughter case against Marysville man who fatally shot 6-year-old daughter
EVERETT -- A new trial has been ordered for Richard Peters, the Marysville-area man convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of his 6-year-old daughter, Stormy, in November of 2008.
Date: 09/23/2011 | Local News
Edmonds man sentenced 10 years for possession of 30 pounds of heroin
SEATTLE -- An Edmonds man was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 10 years in prison for drug trafficking.
Date: 09/23/2011 | Local News
Rapist, suspect in 1995 cold cases will remain behind bars for now
SEATTLE -- A convicted rapist suspected in the 1995 slayings of two Snohomish County women will be locked up at least until mid-2012 while the courts determine whether he should be deemed a sexually violent predator.
Date: 09/23/2011 | Local News
Girl, 10, tells of reported abuse and torture
Editor's note: The headline on an earlier version of this story misstated the girl's relationship with the suspect.
Date: 09/20/2011 | Local News
Man with pit bull bit Everett cop before dog did, prosecutors allege
EVERETT -- A pit bull fatally shot by police wasn't the first to chomp down on an officer during last month's canine-cop melee outside a burning house in north Everett.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Local News
Painful wait for justice
Why the suspect in a fatal wreck remains free
Date: 08/31/2011 | Local News
County prosecutors get grant to combat child-sex traffickers
EVERETT -- Snohomish County prosecutors have landed a $450,000 federal grant to help them better combat child-sex traffickers.The grant will help pay for creating a team involving a deputy prosecutor, a sheriff's detective, support staff and forensic computer tools.
Date: 08/31/2011 | Local News
Everett man pleads guilty to break-in, theft of cash machine
EVERETT -- An Everett man on Tuesday admitted he was part of a heavy-lifting heist at a Marysville strip mall last year.
Date: 08/30/2011 | Local News
Suspect in high school break-in taken into custody
EVERETT -- A 16-year-old girl accused of causing thousands of dollars in damage to Snohomish High School last month was taken into custody Friday after not following rules set down for her in juvenile drug court.
Date: 08/27/2011 | Local News
Suspected Snohomish County drug runners linked to violent drug cartel, officials say
LYNNWOOD -- Suspected drug runners living in Snohomish County have ties to one of the largest and most-violent drug cartels in the world, authorities announced Friday.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Local News
Former Lynnwood lawyer pleads guilty in attempt to smuggle heroin into jail
EVERETT -- A former Lynnwood attorney admitted Wednesday that last year he attempted to smuggle heroin to an inmate inside the Snohomish County Jail.
Date: 08/03/2011 | Local News
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