Local briefly: Police dog helps collar suspected copper-wire thief
Published 10:49 pm Monday, January 7, 2008
LYNNWOOD — A police dog captured a man suspected of trying to steal copper wire from a business early Monday.
Police officers raced to the business just before 5 a.m. when a burglary alarm sounded. Two suspects were seen running from the business in the 20100 block of Cedar Valley Road. Police officers blocked off the area and police dog Sandor found one man.
The suspect, 32, was treated at Stevens Hospital and later booked into the Lynnwood jail for investigation of theft and burglary. Police continue to search for the second suspect.
Mountlake Terrace: Man trips up woman, runs off with purse
A woman was knocked down and her purse was stolen and police are hoping someone saw something.
The woman was walking home about 5:30 p.m. on Friday when someone walked up behind her, tripped her and pushed her to the ground. The man yanked the woman’s purse off her shoulder and ran off, Mountlake Terrace police Sgt. Doug Hansen said.
The woman was not seriously injured.
The theft happened in the 6500 block of 218th Street SW. A police dog tracked the suspect northbound on 66th Avenue W. but lost the scent a couple blocks later. The suspect likely ran to a car and drove off.
Anyone who may have seen something is asked to call police at 425-670-8260.
Everett: Gun sends ex-con back to prison
Ex-convict Ronnie Lee Mason, 41, of Everett, was sentenced by a federal judge Monday to nearly six years in prison for being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.
Mason, who was convicted previously of assault, robbery and drug crimes, was arrested by Everett police in February. Officers found an unloaded Colt .25-caliber pistol in his pants pocket.
At sentencing in Seattle, special assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Cornell told a judge that Mason “is a danger to society. The defendant was on probation at the time of the offense.”
U.S. District Judge James Robart said “there simply was not a good reason for Mr. Mason to have a gun.”
Officials name elderly victim of ax attack
The man who died after he was hit on the head by an ax has been identified as Albert Beasley.
Beasley, 87, died Dec. 28 of blunt force injuries and his death has been ruled a homicide, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office reported Monday.
Beasley’s grandson, Jody Sands, 30, was charged on Friday with second-degree murder with a weapon. Prosecutors alleged that Sands struck Beasley at least twice with the blunt end of an ax Dec. 19. Beasley died a week later at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Investigators were told that Sands has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and recently hospitalized for mental health issues. He is being held on $500,000 bail.
From Herald staff reports
