Man missing after boat flips near Tacoma

TACOMA – Search crews near the Tacoma Narrows in Puget Sound were looking for a 31-year-old Puyallup man who fell into the water with another man when their boat capsized Tuesday afternoon.

Pierce County Dispatch notified the Coast Guard around 3 p.m. that the 12-foot aluminum pleasure craft had overturned about 2 1/2 miles north of the bridge, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.

It apparently happened as the fishermen in the boat pulled up its anchor.

A passing boat plucked one of the men – a 34-year-old from Spanaway – out of the water and took him to Emergency Medical Services on Days Island south of the bridge, the Coast Guard said.

Deer Park

Man arrested on explosives charge: A 35-year-old Deer Park man was arrested for illegal possession of explosives Tuesday after an investigation into a New Year’s Day blast in a nearby field. Ronald Eugene Hascusson was booked into the Spokane County Jail for investigation of unlawful possession of an explosive device, sheriff’s spokesman Cpl. Dave Reagan said. Sheriff’s detectives and members of the Spokane City-County Explosive Disposal Unit served a search warrant Tuesday at the Deer Park home where Hascusson rented a room. They found fuse, shotgun shells that had been emptied of gunpowder, and a disassembled 18-inch fire extinguisher, Reagan said. It appeared the extinguisher casing was being fashioned into a large pipe bomb, detectives said.

Issaquah

Woman arrested after standoff: An Issaquah woman was arrested by U.S. marshals and her husband also was taken into custody early Tuesday following a standoff at an apartment complex, police said. Deborah Oldaker, 46, sought on a warrant accusing her of violating probation in a credit card fraud case, surrendered about 2:15 a.m. after talking for two to three hours with Seattle police negotiators, Issaquah police Sgt. Bob Porter said. Her husband, David Berray, was arrested nearby for investigation of harboring a fugitive, Porter said. Police surrounded the Chopaka Apartments after two shots were fired at marshals trying to serve a warrant on Oldaker at about 8 p.m. Monday.

Oregon

Walla Walla man sentenced for murder: Travis Rose, 19, of Walla Walla, Wash., pleaded guilty to murder Monday and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in a Pendleton, Ore., court. He admitted killing Jeremy James Bishoff while they were stealing anhydrous ammonia, a common fertilizer used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, from a field near Milton-Freewater in September. Rose said he was high on meth when he shot Bishoff in the back of the head at close range.

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