SEATTLE — Police arrested a man Friday in the April 28 fatal shooting of a Minneapolis man in town for a tae kwon do tournament.
Grin Arkanit, 24, was booked into the King County jail for investigation of homicide, police spokeswoman Pam McCammon said.
Mark Andrew Acaley, 25, was shot to death in Seattle’s International District. Acaley was in a sport utility vehicle with his teammates. The rented Ford Excursion was at a stop sign when a man standing on the corner fired more than a dozen bullets into the vehicle.
The driver of the sport utility vehicle, In Lee, has said he noticed a teen-ager or young man crouching or hiding behind the vehicle and he thought the crouching figure might have been the gunman’s target.
Logjam endangers river users: A logjam that has been forming since the Feb. 28 earthquake caused a landslide and a shifting of the river could be a potential danger to Cedar River swimmers, boaters and inner-tubers, King County Executive Ron Sims said Friday. The pile of downed trees and logs is just a quarter-mile downstream of the Elliott Bridge, where watercraft are launched in the river, Sims said in a statement. The logjam is near a bend and not visible upstream. The county has closed that section of river.
Man sentenced in investment scam: A Vancouver, Wash., man has been sentenced for helping cheat investors out of $10.5 million by promoting and selling fraudulent wireless cable television systems. Peter Scholtes, 43, was one of three men indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas in January 2000. He pleaded guilty early this year to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt sentenced Scholtes in Las Vegas on Thursday and ordered him to spend six months at a community correction center. The judge also sentenced him to three years probation and fined him $11,000 and ordered him to pay about $22,000 in restitution. His two co-defendants were sentenced earlier
Rogue River to open to anglers: Extra fish and game officers will be on hand Tuesday when a stretch of the Rogue River stacked up with thousands of spring chinook salmon is opened to the public for the first time. With a strong run of hatchery fish returning this year, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday decided to open to bank fishermen about 150 yards of river just downstream of the Cole Rivers Fish Hatchery near Trail, about 30 miles northeast of Grants Pass.
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