Former Seattle police detective Deana Jarrett pleaded guilty in Redmond to drunken driving.
The 54-year-old Woodinville woman faces up to a year in jail when she is sentenced June 13 in King County District Court.
She had two DUI arrests in April of last year and had one blood-alcohol reading of .47 that the State Patrol said was the highest it ever recorded.
Jarrett apologized in court Thursday and begged the court’s forgiveness.
Seattle: Police arrest man in slaying
Police late Thursday announced an arrest in the slaying of a man whose body was found at a downtown Seattle construction site. They added that a man killed in a Puyallup house explosion has no connection to the case.
Seattle police and Pierce County sheriff’s detectives had been checking reports that Zane Dittman, 26, who was found dead following an explosion at the home where he was renting a room, once worked at the construction site where Noel Lopez, 25, was found dead Monday morning of injuries to the head and torso.
Pierce County sheriff’s Detective Ed Troyer said his office had forwarded its information on the Puyallup case to Seattle.
But in a news release Thursday night, Seattle police Officer Jeffrey Kappel said Seattle homicide detectives “are confident that the subject involved in the recent house explosion in Puyallup is not connected to this case.”
Olympia: State pays $107,500 to settle cases
The Washington state Department of Corrections has agreed to pay an inmate $107,500 to settle his grievances over prison public records.
The settlement announced Friday resolves five cases brought by Derek Gronquist, a former inmate of the Airway Heights Corrections near Spokane. He currently is incarcerated at Stafford Creek Corrections Center.
Corrections officials said the department will pay Gronquist $79,000 to settle a 2001 public disclosure complaint over destruction of inmate grievance documents and another $22,500 for a second public records disclosure case in 2006. The rest will go to settle litigation over a religious practices lawsuit and another, unrelated case.
Yakima: Man jumps to death in jail cellblock
A Yakima County jail inmate committed suicide by leaping from a second-tier cellblock railing 15 feet down to the first tier, officials said. It was the second jail suicide in Washington state this week.
Seth Ryan Eich, 28, died of head injuries Thursday at Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center, where he was taken after jumping Wednesday morning.
Associated Press
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