PORT ORCHARD — A high-ranking Navy enlisted man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a teenage girl and trying to have sex with another.
The Kitsap Sun reports that Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Anna Laurie imposed the 136-month sentence Friday on 39-year-old Daniel C. Jones of central Kitsap County. Jones is a Navy master chief, the highest enlisted rank in that service. He had served as chief of boat for the blue crew of the Bangor-based Trident submarine USS Louisiana.
Jones pleaded guilty in May to two counts of second-degree child rape and one count of communication with a minor for immoral purposes.
Seattle: Two soldiers sentenced in robbery
A King County Superior Court judge has sentenced two Fort Lewis soldiers accused of robbing University of Washington students.
Pvt. Robert Earl Lucas of Murfreesboro, Tenn., was sentenced Friday by Judge John Erlick to three years and four months in prison. Pfc. Chad Alan Braden of Etna, Ohio, was sentenced to two years, 10 months. They had pleaded guilty earlier to one count each of first-degree robbery.
Each had originally been charged with two counts of first-degree robbery with a firearm stemming from two January attacks near the university’s fraternity row. A third Fort Lewis soldier charged in one of the incidents, Pfc. Raymond R. Burrows III of Central Falls, R.I., faces trial next month.
Bellevue: College gets OK for second bachelor’s program
Bellevue College has been given approval to offer a second bachelor’s degree program.
The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved the four-year program in applied arts in interior design. The state Legislature gave the school permission to offer the degree earlier this year.
College officials say they expect 80 or more students in the new program, which is due to begin next January. In June, Bellevue awarded its first 19 bachelor’s degrees to graduates in its applied science program in radiation and imaging sciences.
Port Angeles: Ban on backcountry fires
All backcountry campfires will be banned in Olympic National Park as of Monday because of the high fire danger.
Park Superintendent Karen Gustin says only campfires in established fire pits in “front-country” campgrounds will be allowed.
Park officials say six fires — all started by lightning — are burning in the park. The largest is the 350-acre Constance fire in the Dosewallips River drainage. On Saturday, 10 firefighters were assigned to that blaze, with helicopters dropping water on it.
Fire danger has prompted officials to close the popular Dosewallips trail from the western park boundary to the junction of Gray Wolf Pass and Dose Meadows trails, the Constance Pass trail, and the trail from Dose Forks to Honeymoon Meadows.
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