Cashmere teen held in stabbing of fellow student

CASHMERE – A freshman at Cashmere High School was being held Friday in the stabbing of an older student who allegedly insulted him with ethnic slurs, officials said.

Dane Montgomery, 16, of Wenatchee, suffered at least eight knife wounds to his back, side and chest in the Thursday attack, according to court records. Montgomery was released after treatment at Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee.

The 14-year-old told authorities he stabbed Montgomery with a 3-inch knife after Montgomery had called him names disparaging his Latino heritage, court records showed.

The 14-year-old was arrested Thursday at his home in Cashmere, about 15 miles northwest of Wenatchee. He received an emergency expulsion for having a weapon on school grounds, Cashmere schools superintendent Lynn Baker said.

At a preliminary hearing Friday afternoon, the boy was ordered held on $50,000 bond for investigation of first-degree assault.

Pasco

Trooper’s wife sues federal government: The widow of a Washington State Patrol trooper who was killed during a traffic stop is suing the federal government, saying the Immigration and Naturalization Service should have had the killer in jail the night he shot her husband. Nicolas Solorio Vasquez, an illegal alien, was out on bail when he shot and killed Trooper James Saunders. Billie Saunders, the trooper’s widow, is asking for unspecified damages for herself and their two young children. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, also asks for funeral expenses and the value of James Saunders’ lifetime earnings, had he lived. Vasquez entered a modified guilty plea to an aggravated first-degree murder charge last August.

Seattle

Navy SEAL arrested for exploitation: A Navy SEAL accused of trying to get underage girls to pose for sexually explicit photographs has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. Petty Officer 2nd Class Lyle Richard Cooper, 42, was arrested after he sent a video camera to an undercover city police officer who pretended to be a 13-year-old girl in an Internet chat room.

Port Townsend

Man convicted in teen’s death: A judge has found a man guilty of the stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl in 1992, rejecting his argument that he was insane at the time. Jefferson County Superior Court Judge Thomas Majhan, who heard the case against Robert Froehlich without a jury, convicted him Thursday of second-degree murder and set sentencing for March 29. Froehlich, 28, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Investigators said he killed the girl because she had made a videotape of his friends taking illegal drugs.

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