Stillaguamish Tribe Chairman Ed Goodridge Sr. agreed to a plea bargain in an incident last summer in which a sheriff’s deputy accused him of kicking a police motorcycle.
Cascade District Court Judge Jay Wisman gave Goodridge a suspended sentence, which means he will avoid 90 days in jail as long as he incurs no criminal violations for two years.
Goodridge will also have to pay a fine of $500, Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Bob Hendrix said.
Goodridge declined to comment.
The fact that Goodridge had no previous criminal violations weighed heavily in his favor, Hendrix said. The original charge of obstructing justice and resisting arrest was amended to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
"With this plea, he admitted to culpability and these charges," Hendrix said. "In the grand scheme of things, this is one of the lower criminal charges we get here at district court."
The incident occurred on Aug. 1, 2003, when county deputies and tribal police responded to a domestic dispute at the home of Goodridge’s son, Dean.
The senior Goodridge allegedly pushed deputy Scott Robertson and kicked his motorcycle, according to a sheriff’s report. Goodridge’s wife caught the motorcycle before it fell, and he later said he lost his balance and did not mean to kick it.
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