MOUNT VERNON — A 9-month-old infant is in intensive care at a Seattle hospital after the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office says she was attacked twice in two days by her grandmother’s dog.
Chief Criminal Deputy Will Reichardt said his office is recommending an assault charge be filed against the grandmother. Prosecutor Rich Weyrich told the Skagit Valley Herald he does not yet know if charges will be filed.
In a news release Tuesday, Reichardt described the child as being in intensive care at a Seattle hospital. However, a KING-TV reporter found the child at home when she visited the house later in the day; the child’s mother brought her outside in her arms. The deputy was not immediately reachable by phone late Tuesday night.
Family members say they are by no means downplaying the seriousness of the case. They took the dog to a vet clinic for a bite quarantine and told KING that the animal will not return to the home.
The sheriff’s office said the infant had recently moved into the grandmother’s home in eastern Skagit County with her 21-year-old mother and 18-year-old father who were not home when the attacks occurred.
Reichardt said in the first incident, the Rhodesian ridgeback-Lab mix inflicted an injury that required stitches to reattach part of the infant’s ear.
In the second attack, on Aug. 2, deputies were told the child was crawling on the floor when the dog bit her several times on the head. She suffered a depressed skull fracture and puncture wounds.
Seattle: Yacht club ex-manager charged with 78 counts of theft
The former manager of a Seattle-area yacht club has been charged with stealing more than $100,000.
Earlier this month Annette Meadows Llanos was charged with 78 counts of theft dating from May 2005. According to King County sheriff’s deputies, she took more than $102,000 from the Duwamish Yacht Club in the South Park area.
Investigators began looking into the books in June 2008 after a club member reported some inconsistencies in a profit-and-loss statement. That resulted in an audit which found a number of inconsistencies.
Llanos is accused of making personal purchases on a club credit card, using club funds to take out five cellular telephones and writing checks from club accounts to cover her income tax payments.
Teen pleads not guilty in convenience store killing
A 17-year-old boy accused of shooting a convenience store clerk to death during a robbery last month has pleaded not guilty.
Elijah Hall entered the plea Tuesday to a charge of first-degree murder. He could face 20 to 26 years in prison if convicted.
Hall is accused of killing Manish Melwani, 28, a clerk at the Pit Stop Express and 76 gas station in Ballard on July 26.
Farmers take a shine to mobile slaughterhouse
Puget Sound-area farmers are looking to a shiny, new slaughterhouse on wheels to help them get their meat to local markets and restaurants.
They say the 45-foot, stainless steel mobile meat processing unit will travel from farm to farm, and then transport the meat to a cut-and-wrap facility in Thurston County, from which farmers can sell it to whomever they’d like.
Farmers and chefs say the mobile slaughterhouse will help in meeting demand for local foods.
Pollution tests set on Duwamish River site
An agreement has been announced for pollution testing at a site along the heavily industrialized Duwamish River in Seattle.
The state Ecology Department announced the deal with Crowley Maritime Corp. on Tuesday. It calls for soil, groundwater and sediment tests, the first step toward long-term cleanup of the 16-acre site near the Georgetown neighborhood.
Preliminary investigations since 1989 indicate that the site may contain arsenic, copper, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls.
Oregon: Suspect caught wearing gal’s panties
A burglary suspect confronted inside a garage was arrested wearing only underwear, and police said they weren’t even his.
Marion County sheriff’s deputies said they responded to a call from a woman late Monday night who said her boyfriend had caught a burglar in their garage.
Deputies said the man was wearing nothing but the woman’s underwear. They later found large garbage bags full of women’s clothing, underwear, shoes and accessories in the suspect’s garage in the same neighborhood.
Deputies charged Randall Joseph Giesbers, 47, with burglary, theft, criminal trespass and possession of illegal fireworks.
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