Avalanche kills snowmobiler from Gold Bar
Published 9:00 pm Sunday, March 7, 2004
CLE ELUM – An avalanche near Salmon LaSac in the Wenatchee National Forest killed a 29-year-old Gold Bar man who was riding his snowmobile.
Dez T. Vanassche was with two friends near the Gallagher Bowl about 2 p.m. Saturday when they tried to crest the deep snow on the edge of the bowl, police said.
Their second attempt triggered a 100-yard-wide avalanche that swept away Vanassche. He was found 20 minutes later beneath 6 feet of snow, with no pulse and not breathing.
An off-duty Seattle fire fighter tried unsuccessfully to revive him.
Vanassche was wearing an avalanche beacon and other proper equipment, police said.
Associated Press
Port Orchard: USS
Lincoln sailor arrested
A sailor was arrested aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on a San Diego arrest warrant and ordered held in Kitsap County Jail for investigation of attempted homicide, police said Sunday. The sailor was taken into custody on Friday after being awakened in his bunk on the aircraft carrier, Bremerton police said. The sailor’s age and hometown were not immediately available. KING Television reported that the sailor arrested was 22 and that he had been attached to a San Diego-based command until Feb. 11, when he joined the Lincoln.
Associated Press
Redmond: Robbers target wrong house
Several suspects armed with guns and knives kicked down the door of a Redmond home and tied up two residents early Saturday, in a search for drugs and money. Police believe the home-invasion robbery may be a case of mistaken identity, a Redmond police spokeswoman said. Wearing ski masks and dark clothing, the suspects burst into the home in the 7900 block of 151st Avenue NE, “demanding Oxycontin and the whereabouts of the safe. They found neither.” The suspects took a small amount of cash from a resident’s purse and fled, possibly in an sport utility vehicle or smaller vehicle. The residents, who were not injured, called police at 4:10 a.m.
King County Journal
Federal Way: Teen dies from stabbing in fight
An 18-year-old man was killed early Sunday and King County sheriff’s investigators were looking for four people in connection with the death. The victim, who was not immediately identified, died from stab wounds he suffered in a fight sometime around 1:30 a.m., a sheriff’s spokesman said. The man was driving home with a friend when a Mitsubishi Mirage began following their car. “The victim eventually pulled over and a confrontation ensued. The victim was subsequently stabbed,” the statement said. An officer responding to the incident performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the young man but he died at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.
Associated Press
Sequim: Legal fight forces Target to delay
Legal scrapping over a regional shopping center on the city’s west side has led one large retailer to stall plans to open a store. Target Stores has decided not to build a department store in the first construction phase of Sequim Village Marketplace, an outdoor shopping center proposed on 42 acres. Target had signed a letter of intent to build in the center, which will still be anchored by a Home Depot, said Don Berry, a partner with Arizona-based AVB Development Partners. But delays in the center’s construction, caused by a land-use appeal now being weighed by a Clallam County Superior Court judge, made the company skittish, Berry said Friday.
Peninsula Daily News
