Everett district school board position filled

EVERETT – Ed Petersen, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Hope, will take a vacant seat on the Everett School Board.

Board members made the appointment Tuesday.

Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Kathleen Webber also interviewed for the post.

Peterson will be sworn in March 21. He replaces Paul Roberts, who left in January to take a seat on the Everett City Council.

Petersen said he intends to run in 2007 when the current term expires.

The Everett graduate has three daughters attending schools in the district. Previously, he served on the Snohomish County Alliance to End Homelessness, and is president of the Housing Consortium of Everett and Snohomish County.

Lynnwood: Two more arrested in robbery

Two more people are behind bars for allegedly breaking into a Lynnwood condominium and robbing five people at gunpoint on Saturday, Lynnwood police spokeswoman Shannon Sessions said.

Police arrested a 24-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman from Kenmore late Tuesday or early Wednesday, Sessions said. The man is under investigation for robbing the condominium, and the woman is under investigation for driving the getaway car.

Three other people were arrested earlier in the week in connection with the robbery, Sessions said.

Three men burst into the condo in the 20600 block of 60th Avenue W. and herded six people into a bedroom. The men robbed the victims and hit one of them on the head with a gun. They ransacked the rest of the condo before they left.

One of the six people who had been in the condominium is under investigation for helping to plan the robbery, Sessions said.

Shoreline: Deputy nabs bank robbery suspect

A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy arrested a man Tuesday who was being chased away from a bank he had just robbed, King County Sheriff’s Office spokesman John Urquhart said.

The man, 35, was booked into King County Jail and is under investigation for robbery.

Snohomish County deputy Bill McCormick was at a car dealership in south Edmonds when he saw the man being chased into a clothing store. The person chasing the man said he had just robbed a Bank of America branch.

McCormick found the man in the clothing store and arrested him. The man had no weapon, but he was carrying about the same amount of cash that was missing from the bank, Urquhart said.

Arlington: Clothes lead police to theft suspect

A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbing a hardware store after police recognized clothing he allegedly left behind at the scene, Arlington Police Chief John Gray said.

Someone broke into the Arlington Hardware Store in downtown Arlington last Saturday night and stole $2,500 worth of hunting knives and clothing, Gray said.

The robber left some of his clothes at the store. The clothing matched what another man had been wearing several weeks earlier when police responded to a disturbance at an Arlington bar, Gray said.

Police arrested the man at his home and found most of the stolen clothing and hunting knives, Gray said.

The man is under investigation for burglary and possession of stolen property.

Police target stores that sell alcohol to minors

Police used the help of an underage college student to nab area storeowners that were selling alcohol to minors.

The student was being watched by undercover police officers as he shopped at 19 stores in Arlington. He was able to buy alcohol at eight of the stores, Arlington Police Chief John Gray said.

Some of the employees who sold him alcohol even looked at his valid identification card, which showed that he was not yet 21, Gray said.

Furnishing alcohol to a minor is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.

Many of the arrested employees were fired immediately by their employers, and the state Liquor Control Board is investigating the violations, Gray said.

“The police department does these operations to verify that the businesses are upholding their covenant to not sell alcohol to those who are most vulnerable,” Gray said.

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