WSU police chief linked to explicit e-mail, demoted
Published 9:00 pm Friday, April 6, 2007
PULLMAN – Washington State University campus Ppolice Chief Steve Hansen is being demoted and an assistant has chosen to retire after an investigation into allegations work computers were used to view sexually explicit photographs, a school official said Friday.
Richard Heath, senior associate vice president for business affairs who oversees the WSU police department, said the search for a new chief will begin shortly.
Hansen, a member of the WSU police since 1983 and chief since 2000, will become a lieutenant.
A WSU internal auditor’s investigation concluded Hansen viewed e-mails that were sent to him containing inappropriate material, forwarded the e-mails to assistant chief Scott West and invited other members of the department to view them.
Seattle: Prisoner receives liver transplant
An inmate jailed at a state prison for drug convictions was recovering Friday after receiving a liver transplant in Seattle, the Department of Corrections said.
The department did not release the name of the 55-year-old inmate from the Correctional Complex in Monroe, citing privacy laws.
The man underwent transplant surgery March 25 at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. He’d been awaiting a liver for about two years, said Jeff Weathersby, a spokesman for the department.
“This is the first time there’s been a liver transplant” among state inmates, Weathersby said. There have been two previous bone marrow transplants, in 2000 and 2001.
The man was jailed in 2000 on convictions for drug manufacturing, possession and delivery and jumping bail, Weathersby said.
Salmon seasons set for Pacific fisheries
After nearly shutting down salmon fishing off the Oregon and California coasts last year, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council decided Friday to allow as much fishing as possible in those improved fisheries.
This year’s restrictions fall to the north – off the coast of Washington and in Puget Sound, said Chuck Tracy, salmon staff officer for the council.
North of Cape Falcon, about 30 miles south of the mouth of the Columbia River, to the Canadian border, the season is limited to dates in May through September, and the quotas have been cut for commercial fishing. Most recreational fishing has been curtailed as well, but there will be some increases in coho quotas, Tracy said.
The council set an overall non-Indian quota for the Washington fisheries of 32,500 chinook and 140,000 coho for 2007.
Idaho: Man is suspect in Arizona shooting
A 21-year-old man who is accused of killing a University of Idaho student and is under investigation in the separate slaying of a Boise State University student several days later is now believed by authorities to have shot and wounded a man in Tucson, Ariz., the Ada County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.
John Joseph Delling, a former Boise resident who last lived in Antelope, Calif., has been linked to the Arizona shooting of Jacob Thompson, 23, on March 20, Sheriff Gary Raney said. Thompson, who is originally from Boise, is now in rehabilitation after being shot in the face and chest, Raney told a news conference.
Delling was arrested Tuesday by police in Sparks, Nev., on a stolen car warrant and a first-degree murder warrant issued by Moscow police in the death of UI senior David Boss, a former high school classmate of Delling at Timberline High School in Boise.
Associated Press
