MARYSVILLE – A 31-year-old Marysville man should have realized he had enough problems when he was arrested Friday on a warrant for drunken driving.
He asked a Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy why he was being arrested, and the deputy told him. Then he asked what would happen if he kicked out the back window of the patrol car.
The deputy told him he would be charged with a felony.
“Let’s do it then,” the man exclaimed as he began to kick at a patrol car window, according to charging papers filed this week in Snohomish County Superior Court.
The vehicle had enough damage to put it out of commission for repairs, according to documents. Besides his drunken driving count, the man now faces a felony second-degree malicious mischief charge for damaging the patrol car.
The Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management is keeping an eye out for flooding between Darrington and Oso in the wake of a landslide into the Stillaguamish River.
The north bank of the river collapsed about 4 p.m. Wednesday, said Christine Badger, emergency coordinator for the department. County officials were worried the landslide might cause the river to back up and cause flooding. So far, the river has simply shifted around the slide, Badger said.
Few homes are threatened by the slide, which happened near Steelhead Lane. The area is mostly farmland, Badger said.
Recent rainfall that saturated the ground probably contributed to the landslide, Badger said. However, the Stillaguamish was running low because the weather has been fairly dry the past few days.
County officials will go up in a helicopter early today to view the landslide and determine whether it might pose other problems, Badger said.
From Herald staff reports
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