BREMERTON – A Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. driver told police someone broke into his truck and stole about $2,400 in small change and $1 bills Tuesday morning, police reports said.
Officers notified nearby businesses to be on the lookout for people buying goods with dollar bills and lots of change.
The Sun
Vancouver: Boy’s condition improving
A 13-year-old boy who was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver has been upgraded from critical to serious condition.
Keith Barnes of Vancouver was injured May 10. A 12-year-old boy is accused of attacking him with the screwdriver in a scuffle over peanut butter smeared on a shirt.
Barnes is recovering at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Ore.
The 12-year-old has been charged with first-degree assault. His trial is scheduled to begin June 9.
Associated Press
Tacoma: Sentence for killing turtle
An Ocean Park man has been sentenced in U.S. District Court for killing a protected green sea turtle for its shell.
Bert Jenkins must serve six months of home detention with electronic monitoring and perform 40 hours of community service. He was also placed on two years probation.
Court papers said Jenkins collected the turtle, protected under the Endangered Species Act, in February 2001 from a beach near Ocean Park. Jenkins shot the turtle with a nail gun and left it in his truck while he was at work.
Later in the day, the turtle was seen crawling away from the truck, the papers said. Jenkins shot the turtle in the head with a .22-caliber rifle that evening, killing the animal.
Jenkins later cut the turtle out of its shell and discarded the carcass.
Jenkins pleaded guilty in December to violating the Lacey Act, which prohibits the transport of wildlife taken in violation of federal law.
In the wild, green sea turtles can live for 100 years, grow to a length of more than 3 feet and weigh as much as 400 pounds.
Associated Press
Enumclaw: Mother killed in gun accident
A woman has died of a gunshot fired though an inside wall of a house by her son in what police say was an apparent accident. The 80-year-old woman, hit in the back by a .45-caliber slug May 11, died Monday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, authorities said. Her name was being withheld.
Her son was visiting her at home and was in another room checking to determine whether his pistol was loaded when it discharged, police Cmdr. Eric Sortland said. He described the shooting as inadvertent.
The mother, who was able to call 911 after being shot, initially was listed in critical condition and appeared to be doing better before she died, officials said.
The son, whose name also was withheld, was the legal owner of the weapon, police said.
King County Journal
Renton: Ex-wife surrenders in shooting
A woman sought in the fatal shooting of her ex-husband at an apartment complex in this south Seattle suburb has surrendered to police.
Dean Lai-How, 34, was shot Tuesday morning in the parking lot of the complex while walking his dog. He managed to climb the stairs to his third-floor apartment, call 911 and say that his ex-wife had shot him, police spokeswoman Penny Bartley said.
Lai-How died at the scene after police arrived.
Rebecca Lynn Lai-How, 41, of the Portland, Ore., area turned herself in to police in neighboring Tukwila about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and was arrested for investigation of homicide, Bartley said.
Dean Lai-How had obtained a temporary protection order against his ex-wife on March 31, and a court hearing had been set for Wednesday, apparently on whether to make it permanent.
Associated Press
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