LYNNWOOD — An Edmonds man was arrested Monday night after he allegedly groped a 13-year-old boy who was playing a video game at Alderwood, the Lynnwood shopping mall, according to court documents.
The boy’s father followed the man, 40, through the mall until police arrived, according to the police affidavit filed Tuesday in Everett District Court.
The boy was playing a video game around 5:30 p.m. at the GameStop store when he felt someone groping his private areas. The boy turned around and the man was standing directly behind him, the documents said. The boy’s father confronted the man, who refused to wait for police.
The man had been arrested before in Lynnwood in November for inappropriately touching a 14-year-old boy, Lynnwood police spokeswoman Shannon Sessions said.
He was charged with misdemeanor fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation in that incident, Sessions said. The man was found guilty of fourth-degree assault, an offense that does not require registration as a sex offender.
The man was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of second-degree child molestation, a felony.
Marysville: Suspect arrested after chase
Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man who ran away Tuesday afternoon during a traffic stop on I-5.
Deputies pulled the man over around 2 p.m. on northbound I-5 just south of Highway 529, sheriff’s spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.
The driver is wanted on felony and misdemeanor assault and domestic violence warrants, she said.
He ran away and several police swarmed the area between Ebey and Steamboat Slough.
Around 2:45 p.m., deputies found the man hiding in blackberry bushes.
Police used a police dog and the sheriff’s helicopter to try to find the man.
Traffic through the area was slowed as people looked to see what was going on, Hover said.
Edmonds: Man not guilty in police assault
A Snohomish County jury wasn’t convinced a 12-time convicted felon was guilty of assaulting police during a 2007 pursuit that ended in gunfire.
Jurors on Tuesday acquitted Ricky Arntsen, 37, of two counts of second-degree assault. At the same time, they found him guilty of less serious charges of attempting to elude police and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Arntsen represented himself during the trial. He told jurors he didn’t trust public defenders because he believed he was wrongfully convicted of murder more than a decade ago.
Prosecutors alleged that Arntsen rammed an Edmonds detective’s car after he refused to pull over for a Shoreline police officer. Two officers shot Arntsen outside a Seattle 7-Eleven.
From Herald staff reports
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