SEATTLE – A 17-year-old died after being taken into custody by Seattle police on an invalid arrest warrant.
The boy, whose name was not immediately released, collapsed while being booked at the King County Juvenile Detention Facility on Friday morning. Medics brought him to Harborview Medical Center, and doctors told county officials Sunday that the boy had died.
While the boy was hospitalized, police realized the arrest warrant was not valid, and the county released him from custody, according to a news release from King County Executive Ron Sims.
Seattle police are investigating the death.
Seattle: PSE to pay $995,000 privacy fine
Puget Sound Energy will pay $995,000 for violating consumer privacy laws by giving information on thousands of customers to an outside marketing company and will permanently abolish the program under a settlement approved Monday by the state Utilities and Transportation Commission.
Under the settlement agreement, the utility agreed to pay a $900,000 penalty, contribute $95,000 to its low-income heating assistance program and avoid such violations in future.
PSE will comply, utility spokeswoman Martha Monfreid said Monday.
“We discontinued the program last March as soon as the commission raised the issue of there being privacy issues,” she said.
Olympia: Doctor keeps license, with conditions
A Bothell doctor has agreed to be supervised for two years and to pay a $5,000 fine to settle allegations he harmed three patients during spinal surgeries.
The Washington State Medical Commission suspended Dr. Solomon Kamson’s license in November 2006 as it investigated the case. Under the agreement announced Monday, Kamson can keep his license. But for the next two years, he must pay for all patients undergoing spinal procedures to get a second opinion, and any spinal surgeries he performs must be overseen by another physician.
The surgeries at issue in Kamson’s case were performed between 2001 and 2003. Kamson acknowledged overstating his qualifications for performing the procedures, aimed at relieving back pain, and the reasons for the surgeries – which in some cases were attempts to repair damage he had previously caused.
Tumwater: Dead woman found in pit
Thurston County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the death of a woman whose unclothed body was discovered Monday in a gravel pit south of Tumwater.
The woman, identified as Karen L. Bodine, 37, had apparently been dead for less than 24 hours, said Jim Chamberlain, chief criminal deputy in the sheriff’s office.
A driver spotted the body at about 8:45 a.m. It was not immediately known how she died, but some unexplained marks on the body made the case “very suspicious,” said sheriff’s Lt. Chris Mealy.
Associated Press
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