TACOMA — A car carrying three detectives — one from Pierce County and two from Tacoma police — collided with another car Wednesday night on a road between Tacoma and Puyallup.
Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer told The News Tribune of Tacoma they were on their way to make another arrest connected with the slaying of four Lakewood police officers. He said that arrest is pending.
One detective with an arm injury was taken to a hospital. The other two were bruised and shaken up but not seriously injured.
Port Angeles: Oregon man sentenced for trying to hire hit man
A Gresham, Ore., man convicted of trying to hire a hit man to kill a Sequim teenager has been sentenced to 19 years in prison.
Aaron Hahn, 30, was found guilty of solicitation of first-degree premeditated murder on Oct. 28. He was sentenced Wednesday by Clallam County Superior Court Judge George Wood.
The sentence combined the murder-for-hire charge and a sexual exploitation of a minor charge that Hahn pleaded guilty to in July.
Hahn was accused of attempting to hire a fellow Clallam County jail inmate to kill the girl he is accused of sexually exploiting in 2008.
The victim was 13 when Hahn met her online. The teen told authorities she had been involved in a three-year dating relationship with Hahn, which she broke off in 2008 and then contacted Sequim police, alleging Hahn was threatening her.
Vancouver, Wash.: Man pleads guilty to killing his grandmother
A 22-year-old Vancouver man has pleaded guilty to beating his grandmother to death in 2007.
Daniel Marter was to go on trial next week on charges of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, second-degree theft and forgery. Clark County senior deputy prosecutor John Fairgrieve told the Vancouver Columbian that the weapon and other charges were dropped in exchange for Marter’s guilty plea Wednesday to first-degree murder.
Marter is accused of killing his 63-year-old grandmother, Maurine O’Neal, on Dec. 14, 2007. He is to be sentenced Jan. 6.
Baby girl fine after birth at Vancouver homeless camp
Officials say the baby girl born in a Vancouver homeless camp and the 18-year-old who gave birth in a tent appeared to be in good health.
The baby was born in near-freezing temperature early Wednesday at the camp in the Discovery Trail corridor.
The Vancouver Columbian reports firefighters, Clark County sheriff’s deputies and an ambulance crew stomped a path through thick brush and cut open a chain link fence to put the mother and child in an ambulance on Highway 500. They were taken to Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver.
Chattaroy: Burning home fires bullet at bystander
A burning mobile home fired a shot at a bystander at Chattaroy in north Spokane County.
Ammunition stored in the home exploded during the fire Thursday, but the bullet wasn’t traveling fast enough to injure the neighbor who was watching the flames.
Rose Leeson told KHQ she felt a ping on her jacket and looked down to see the bullet.
The fire destroyed the home. The wife was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
Poulsbo: Pedestrian killed by Kitsap Transit bus
A 49-year-old woman trying to cross Highway 305 near Poulsbo was struck and killed Wednesday night by a Kitsap Transit bus.
The Washington State Patrol said the driver was unable to stop. The bus had just picked up a dozen passengers from the Bainbridge ferry terminal.
Mead: Man charged in wife’s stabbing death
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office says a 46-year-old man under guard in a hospital has been booked for investigation of murder in the stabbing death of his wife at their home in Mead.
The sheriff’s office said Jeffrey N. Canino is being treated for self-inflicted knife wounds.
The couple’s 11-year-old son was injured in the attack Wednesday.
The woman’s name has not been released. The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported the home is owned by Jeffrey and Michelle Canino.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Reagan said deputies received a call shortly before daybreak in which a woman could be heard screaming for help.
Spokane: Man sentenced for role in helicopter drug ring
A man arrested in the investigation of a smuggling ring that used helicopters to fly narcotics throughout the region has been sentenced during a secret federal court proceeding in Spokane.
Leonard J. Ferris, 50, pleaded guilty in April after being charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
The Spokesman-Review newspaper reported the courtroom was closed during Wednesday’s sentencing and the transcript will be sealed under orders from U.S. District Judge Lonny Suko. No reason for the unusual closure was given.
Ferris’ lawyer, Gina Costello, said her client was sentenced to six years in prison.
Grayland: Tsunami siren sounds warning for no reason
An All Hazards Alert Systems siren went off in the middle of the night at South Beach near Grayland and awakened residents. Then it went off again Thursday afternoon for no reason.
Pacific County emergency management director Stephanie Fritts told KXRO that officials though there was a malfunction with the power supply. The siren has been shut down until it is fixed.
It’s part of a system that warns coastal residents of tsunamis or other hazards.
Oregon: Woman reports robbery, but police call her a thief
A Medford woman who told police she was robbed of $3,800 raised for the local chapter of the Disabled American Veterans has been accused of stealing the money.
Police say 62-year-old Carronne Cousteau told them a man pushed her to the ground Tuesday and took the money as she was on her way to deposit it in a bank.
But police say they found holes in her story. Lt. Tim Doney said police believe she spent it for what he called “personal means.”
A leader of the chapter, Ernest Corey, and two chapter officials counted the money, but when the officers who usually handle the group’s banking were unavailable, Cousteau volunteered.
Corey said he doesn’t why the money was stolen.
Car and pickup collide in freezing fog; three relatives die
The Oregon State Police said three members of a Pendleton family were killed when their car collided with a pickup truck pulling a horse trailer.
Police said the crash happened when the car crossed the center line in dense, freezing fog late Wednesday afternoon on a curve of Highway 11 south of Milton-Freewater.
The victims were identified as 71-year-old Edwin Nurmi, the driver; his wife, 72-year-old Rae Nurmi; and their son, 50-year-old John Nurmi.
The pickup driver was 66-year-old Ned Londo of Milton-Freewater. He had minor injuries.
Troopers said a dog in the Nurmi car and a horse in the trailer died.
Unmarked police car stolen from detective’s driveway
It’s a cold weather staple — the tales of residents who leave their cars idling to warm up on brisk mornings, step inside for a moment and return to find the cars stolen. This time it happened to a Portland police officer.
Portland police Detective Mary Wheat said an on-call officer who lives in nearby Damascus, in Clackamas County, turned his unmarked car on Thursday morning to warm it up, then stepped back inside to get his child. Sure enough, the black Chevy Impala was gone from his driveway when he returned.
Wheat said the vehicle is a 2007 model that belongs to the police bureau. She said there were no weapons inside. The car has a siren and blue and red lights in the grill that are only visible when activated.
She did not identify the officer.
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