SURREY, British Columbia – U.S. Customs agents detained a man at the border because he was carrying a small bottle filled with an unknown substance, and another man was pulled from a Seattle-bound plane.
The man told authorities the bottle of liquid was homemade aftershave lotion, which was sent to a laboratory for analysis and determined to be nothing dangerous, said FBI Agent Ray Lauer in Seattle.
“I’m assuming it was exactly what he said it was,” Lauer said Friday.
The man was being held for investigation of an immigration violation, he said.
In a second incident, a 34-year-old Victoria man whose name matched one on the FBI’s terrorist watch list was interviewed by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police intelligence officer and detained for 4 1/2hours Thursday after he tried to board a Horizon Air flight to Seattle.
The man, believed to be of Bangladeshi descent, was cooperative and had no weapons or other contraband that would have concerned authorities, police Sgt. Wayne Conley said.
Murder, rape conviction: A man faces life in prison after first apologizing for the rape and murder of a teen-age girl and then saying it happened because she drank with him and offered him marijuana. Joseph M. Rosenow, 47, of Hoodsport was convicted in the Feb. 24 attack on Jennie Mae Osborn, 15. His excuse drew a rebuke from Judge James Sawyer on Thursday in Mason County Superior Court. “It takes more than one,” Rosenow said. “I feel that if she hadn’t brought those drugs that day, this would never have happened.” As a three-strikes offender, Rosenow was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of release.
More leave from Fairchild: More airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base received orders Thursday for deployment in support of America’s buildup against terrorists. Capt. Denise Shorb characterized Thursday’s deployment as “slightly larger” than last week’s, when an unspecified number of airmen and KC-135 Stratotankers were sent off. The former Strategic Air Command bomber base about 10 miles west of Spokane is now the nation’s largest refueling depot, with more than 60 air tankers.
Charges upgraded: A man accused of killing a former co-worker is now charged with aggravated first-degree murder. In filing the more serious charge against Kim Heichel Mason, King County deputy prosecutor Scott O’Toole said Thursday he would not seek the death penalty. Mason, the son of former Seattle assistant police chief John Mason, pleaded innocent in April to a charge of first-degree murder in the disappearance of Hartanto T. Santoso, 31, of Kirkland. Santoso vanished Feb. 19 and blood was found in his apartment and car. Prosecutors say a witness told police Mason stabbed Santoso to death and disposed of his body at an unknown location.
Self-defense claimed: A 51-year-old man claims it was self-defense when he shot another armed man in the head during a dispute. Leonard Sandoval, 51, was being held on a murder charge for shooting Jack Whitcraft, 47. Both men were armed, said Josephine County sheriff’s Lt. Brian Anderson. Sandoval had a rifle and Whitcraft had a handgun. Sandoval called 911 Thursday morning to report the shooting outside a home near the town of Merlin, just west of Grants Pass. Investigators said a bullet hole was visible in the rear cab window of the pickup driven by Whitcraft, who was ahead of a sport utility vehicle driven by Sandoval. Court documents show that in May, Sandoval made threats against his former wife, Mary Carlson, who was living with Whitcraft. Sandoval was charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and three restraining order violations. He is scheduled to go on trial on those charges on Jan. 23.
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