A case involving gunplay, cocaine, a pregnant woman and a pit bull dog has led to charges against two people in Snohomish County.
The allegations stem from an apparent rolling gunbattle in south Everett on Saturday.
“It all happened in broad daylight on a residential street in Snohomish County, Washington,” deputy prosecutor Mark Roe said in court papers filed Tuesday.
Sean Terrell Phillips, 23, of Seattle, is now facing charges of drive-by shooting, possessing cocaine with intent to sell and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
He allegedly was spotted leaning out of a bullet-riddled Jeep Cherokee, shooting a 9mm handgun at a woman who was chasing a pit bull terrier down Meadow Road in Everett, Roe wrote. The woman scampered back into a car and sped away, apparently unhurt.
Maggie Lynn Godwin, 23, of Everett was driving the Cherokee, Roe alleged. Godwin, who according to court papers is pregnant with Phillips’ child, is also charged with drive-by shooting.
Investigators believe shots had been traded between occupants of the Cherokee and another vehicle earlier. The gunplay witnessed in the neighborhood “may have been the end of a running gunbattle,” Roe wrote.
Phillips, a four-time convicted felon, posted $50,000 bail and was released from jail. Prosecutors want his bail doubled. Godwin had been jailed on an unrelated warrant.
Everett
Theft suspect eludes police: A suspected tool thief escaped into the crowds at the Everett Mall Tuesday afternoon after crashing his truck into a tree in a chase with deputies.
His brother, who was riding in the truck, was arrested on unrelated warrants. Some of the tools stolen from a Home Depot parking lot were recovered, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
A deputy noticed the man’s yellow 1973 Chevy pickup near Everett Mall Way and Seventh Ave. SE around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday. It fit the description of a vehicle whose owner had been seen stealing tools from a parked truck several weeks earlier.
The man allegedly led the deputy on a chase that raced through a Jack in the Box parking lot. It ended when the man smashed into a tree near the Olive Garden, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen.
The suspected thief got out and fled on foot. Witnesses saw him run into the Bon Marche, but the six deputies who responded to the chase were not able to find him.
Train tracks blocked: A petroleum truck stuck in a ditch delayed Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains for about 45 minutes Tuesday in the railroad’s Delta switching yard off E. Marine View Drive.
City firefighters had to lay a precautionary water supply line across the tracks about 1:30 p.m. while the truck was removed, battalion chief Ed Oas said. The driver turned onto a road and cut a corner too closely, he said. The rear wheels dropped into a ditch, causing the truck to lean and be in danger of overturning. The truck leaked a minor amount of fuel, which was captured by absorbent padding firefighters spread around it, he said.
Two wreckers were called in to stabilize and remove the truck.
From Herald staff reports
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