Suspicious bag disrupts Seattle-Bainbridge ferry
Published 9:00 pm Monday, April 12, 2004
SEATTLE – Traffic on the busiest state ferry route – between Seattle and Bainbridge Island – was disrupted for several hours Monday after a suspicious bag was found on the ferry Wenatchee.
The bag was found about 11:30 a.m. in a trash can on the car deck by crew members doing a routine security sweep, ferry system spokeswoman Pat Patterson said.
Officials held the boat at the Bainbridge terminal until a State Patrol bomb squad could be called to examine the bag.
The bag was found to contain personal items and ferry service on the Wenatchee resumed about 3:30 p.m.
Associated Press
Spokane: Man finds grenade in his backyard
A Spokane man was cleaning out the ivy from his backyard last week when he found something that could have ruined his day. He found a hand grenade on the ground Wednesday inside the tangle of ivy, Spokane Police spokesman Dick Cottam said. The man told officers that he wasn’t certain it was a grenade, so he picked it up. When he discovered it was real, he put it down and called Spokane police. Two members of the department’s explosive disposal unit responded. They determined that the grenade was inert, and therefore not dangerous, Cottam said.
Spokesman-Review
Yakima: Drowning
victims’ families donate
The families of three Yakama Indian fishermen who drowned in the Columbia River have given underwater cameras to police. The families of cousins Eli Lewis, Robert Allen Sr. and Tracy Lewis helped raise $3,000 to purchase a camera and global-positioning unit for the Yakama Nation Police Department and the Columbia River Inter-Tribe Fish Commission. Authorities say the cameras will help searches made in the turbulent, murky waters of the Columbia River.
Associated Press
Port Angeles: State money for reburial
The Lower Elwha Klallam tribal chairman says mitigation money being paid to the tribe by the state will be used for reburial of remains found at a state transportation construction site that is an ancestral Indian burial ground. Chairman Dennis Sullivan said about $3 million of the $3.4 million will be spent to purchase land to rebury tribal ancestors and to construct a building to preserve and store artifacts. Remains were first found in August 2003, bringing the transportation project to a stop. The large onshore drydock will be used to build components for refurbishing the Hood Canal Bridge.
Associated Press
Federal Way: Jail
escapee arrested
One of two men who escaped March 31 while waiting to be booked into jail has been arrested. The Kitsap County jail received an anonymous tip saying Alvin. G. Walker was staying at a residence in Federal Way. Federal Way police arrested Walker on Saturday night and he was returned to Kitsap County jail. Walker and Kane Boyle, 20, escaped from a temporary booking area that the jail has been using during construction. Boyle remains at large.
The Sun
Sequim: Girl, horse hurt in fall over cliff
A 12-year-old horse rider was rescued Sunday afternoon near the Gray Wolf River after she and her horse fell off a cliff in the Lost Mountain area, the Clallam County sheriff reported. The girl walked away from the mishap with scrapes and bumps about four miles past the end of Slab Camp Road, Sheriff Joe Martin said. A county rescue operation retrieved the rider and her horse inside Olympic National Forest south of Lost Mountain. Martin said the rider managed to climb out from where she and the horse fell.
Peninsula Daily News
