Local Briefly: Police searching for missing man from Edmonds

Published 10:48 pm Tuesday, April 8, 2008

EDMONDS — Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives said they are looking for an Edmonds man missing since March 28.

Christopher A. Miller, 47, used his cell phone to call his fiance to tell her he was on his way home, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said. No foul play is suspected.

That call was the last time the man’s fiance heard from him, Hover said. Subsequent calls to Miller’s cell phone have been unsuccessful, as if the battery has died.

Miller had just started a new job in Renton driving a forklift and loading trucks and train containers, Hover said. He got the job through a temporary agency, but detectives don’t know the name of that agency or the company he was doing work for.

Miller is described as black; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and weighing 260 pounds. He was driving a white 1998 Kia Sephia with Washington license plate 491VNY.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 425-388-3845.

Arlington: Graffiti pops up around city

Police said they are investigating more than 14 reports of graffiti apparently drawn early Tuesday in several locations around the city.

The graffiti likely was drawn between the hours of 2 and 4 a.m., and detectives believe it to be the work of juveniles, Arlington city spokeswoman Kristin Banfield said. Police are working with the school district to investigate.

The mess is being investigated as several acts of malicious mischief, Banfield said.

“It’s like random, all over town,” she said. “Whoever it is, we want to catch them. It’s wholly inappropriate.”

Anyone with information is asked to call the Arlington Police Department at 360-403-3400.

From Herald staff reports