SEATTLE – A woman who is believed to have fled to Thailand has been charged with a poison attack that killed her former boyfriend and temporarily blinded another woman in the suburbs east of Lake Washington.
Janjira Jeffrey Smith, 51, was charged Thursday in King County Superior Court with first-degree murder in the death of Roger Lewis, 56, and first-degree assault in a stroke that afflicted Thanyarat O. Sengpharaghanh, 42, both from insecticide that had been added to a bottle of liqueur.
Smith, who formerly lived in Redmond, is believed to have gone to her native country of Thailand, officials in the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Lewis, who lived at his woodworking business in Redmond after going through a divorce, had an 18-month relationship with Smith but recently told her he planned to marry a woman he had met on a trip to the Philippines, according to documents filed in court by prosecutors.
Man sentenced for killing two in drug deal
A man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing two men in the Southcenter parking lot, apparently during a midday heroin transaction.
The sentence was handed down Wednesday to Thomas Osbourne Marshall, 55, of Port Orchard, convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of Felix Payan Cruz, 27, and Noe Carrasco Salazar, 17.
The shootings occurred on Sept. 12, 2005, in a car a few yards from the Nordstrom store in the shopping mall. According to investigators, Marshall shot the two men in the back of the head during what apparently was a heroin deal.
Tacoma: Vancouver accused of violating law
The city of Vancouver, Wash., is being sued in federal court over a long list of alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and other statutes.
Access Now, a national civil-rights group based in Florida, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Michelle Beardshear, 26, of Vancouver, a paraplegic who uses a wheelchair.
The lawsuit contends that many Vancouver streets, sidewalks and structures are insufficiently accessible to people with disabilities.
Port Angeles: Four Canadians face charges
Four Canadians face federal drug charges after they were arrested in Port Angeles with 465 pounds of the drug Ecstasy, according to federal prosecutors.
The men – Ka Wai Andy Cheung, Wing Ho Jimmy Ho, King Yin Peter Fong and Ying Wai Wong, all residents of Vancouver, B.C. – are charged with conspiracy to import Ecstasy and possession with intent to distribute Ecstasy. They’re at the federal detention center at Sea-Tac.
The drugs were destined for Los Angeles and Houston, prosecutors say. In Los Angeles agents arrested one man and are seeking a second in the case. In Texas, agents arrested two Houston men.
Ephrata: Man gets 20 years for shooting death
A man who pleaded guilty to shooting an acquaintance to death near Mattawa over a methamphetamine debt and two malfunctioning stereo amplifiers has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Marcus Dean Quesnell, 30, of Kennewick was sentenced Tuesday in Grant County Superior Court. He was allowed to plead guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for his testimony against James Isom Collins, 25, of Desert Aire in the slaying of Jonathan M. Carrico, 22, of Ocean Shores.
An orchardist discovered Carrico’s decomposed remains with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in the skull in an old-fashioned root cellar two miles west of Mattawa on Oct. 14, 2005. Authorities believe he died about three months earlier.
Associated Press
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