TACOMA – A fourth man, a Canadian, has turned himself in after being sought in a Tacoma bank robbery in which $54,000 was taken.
Tigray Robinson, 20, gave himself up Sunday to FBI agents in Washington near the Canadian border and was expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dion said.
Investigators believe Robinson helped three Army Rangers from Fort Lewis – Alex Blum, 19, Chad Palmer, 20; and Luke Sommer, 20, rob a Bank of American branch on Aug. 7.
Two days after being restarted with much fanfare for the first time since November, the monorail once again had to be shut down for more than three hours, this time because of a problem with a compressor.
Service on the overhead line between the Seattle Center and the downtown retail core was halted after the problem tripped the braking system in the Blue Train about 2:45 p.m. Sunday, officials said.
Passengers from the train that stopped walked across to the Red Train to be carried back to the Seattle Center. Service resumed about 6 p.m.
“The fix was equivalent to rebooting a computer,” said Regan Erskine, a Seattle Center spokeswoman.
An anti-tailgating strategy on I-5 backfired in the form of unexpected traffic jams, state transportation officials have discovered.
Officials from the state Transportation Department and Washington State Patrol planned to meet Monday to reassess the $35,000 Two Dots To Safety pilot program on a two-mile stretch of the freeway north of Lacey.
Road crews painted dots 80 feet apart and posted signs telling drivers to stay at least two dots – 160 feet – from the vehicle ahead, based on the traffic safety principle of being at least two seconds behind another vehicle when going 60 mph.
Backups developed Saturday, the day after the program began, when drivers slowed down because of heavy traffic and continued to maintain the two-dot separation, although that was not necessary at slower speeds, said Lisa Mordock, a Transportation Department spokeswoman.
Associated Press
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