Four businesses recently sold alcohol to a minor during compliance checks by state Liquor Control Board agents and Monroe police. Enforcement officers checked 19 stores in Monroe and one in Snohomish Aug. 12. The following stores sold alcohol to underage people working with the Liquor Control Board: State Liquor Store, 304 E. Main St.; Safeway, 19651 U.S. 2; Twin River Mart, 17025 W. Main St.; and West Monroe Chevron, 13885 Fryelands Blvd. Clerks who sell alcohol to a minor receive a criminal citation. Business owners receive a violation or warning based on past offenses and potentially can lose their liquor license.
Mukilteo: Skeletal remains identified
MUKILTEO – The skeletal remains found in a wooded area are those of Bonita Somsen, according to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office. The unburied remains were found Tuesday by two teenage boys walking through the property near the intersection of 47th Place W. and 107th Street SW. Somsen, who was undergoing treatment for cancer, was reported missing Aug. 14, 2003. She left a copy of her will and some stock certificates at her home before disappearing. The medical examiner’s office has not determined how Somsen died. A gun registered to the missing woman was found at the scene, Police Chief Mike Murphy said. Officers don’t suspect foul play, he said.
Seattle: Man involved in standoff in court
A Snohomish man appeared in U.S. District Court in Seattle Thursday for charges stemming from a standoff with FBI agents. Lewis V. Hughes, 57, was charged with resisting and impeding federal agents and obstructing and resisting officers. Hughes kept federal agents at bay for 32 hours after refusing to allow them to search his house in the 200 block of 15th Street, according to court documents. Hughes told agents he was armed with a shotgun and would consider it “an act of piracy” if the agents knocked down the door and had their weapons drawn, court papers said. He told the agents if they holstered their weapons and executed the search warrant peacefully, he would only sue the agents. Agents tried to serve a search warrant on Hughes’ house as part of an investigation out of Charlotte, N.C. Hughes eventually walked out his house and was immediately arrested.
Silvana: Car theft suspect arrested
SILVANA – An alleged car thief was arrested Thursday after the owner of a pickup truck spotted that his vehicle had been stolen. The suspect and a woman ditched the pickup near Seventh Avenue NE and the Stillaguamish River. The couple ran into a cornfield, where a Snohomish County sheriff’s helicopter crew spotted them, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen said. The helicopter pilot landed in a nearby field and detained the suspects until Washington State Patrol troopers arrived. Police found money and drugs in the truck. The suspect is not likely responsible for a string of residential burglaries in the area, Jorgensen said. He does have a history of burglaries though, Jorgensen said.
From Herald staff reports
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