ARLINGTON – A Stillaguamish tribal police officer suffered minor cuts and bruises Friday when he was hit by a car during a routine traffic stop, tribal police said.
Officer Steven Hardy stopped the driver, 20, who lives northwest of Arlington, on suspicion of reckless driving about 8:35 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Smokey Point Boulevard and Highway 530 in unincorporated Snohomish County.
The suspect was uncooperative during the stop, police said. The suspect then put the car in gear, grabbed Hardy’s arm and backed up, catching the officer in the back with the driver’s side mirror, tribal police said. He then drove forward, knocked the officer to the ground and sped off.
Witnesses at the scene helped Hardy identify the driver. Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies responded and found the driver at his home. The matter was referred to the Snohomish County prosecutor’s office for possible charges.
Hardy was treated at Cascade Hospital in Arlington.
Camano Island: 3 injured in accident
A 36-year-old Lynnwood woman and her two daughters were injured in an accident Saturday on Camano Island.
Erica Guest, 36, and daughter Ala, 6, were transported to Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon following the accident at 9:30 a.m., according to the State Patrol. Mia Guest, 5, was transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Staff members at both hospitals declined to release information on their condition, citing federal privacy laws.
The woman was driving her 1997 GMC pickup eastbound on E. Camano Hill Road when the truck started to go off the road to the right, according to the State Patrol. She then overcorrected, coming back onto the road. The truck flipped onto its side at the intersection of E. Camano Hill Road and N. East Camano Drive. The roadway was wet at the time.
Kent: Ex-cop pleads guilty in wife’s slaying
A former Seattle police officer has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his estranged wife.
Douglas Leroy Kiesz, 60, of Mill Creek, entered his plea last week and could face 18 years in prison when he’s sentenced Aug. 13.
In November, his wife, Leta Kay Kiesz, 44, of Covington, was found dead in her car at a shopping center after family members spent more than 30 hours searching for her.
She had been shot twice in the chest.
The standard sentencing range is between about 10 years and 18 years. Prosecutors plan to ask for a sentence at the high end, Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Kiesz was a Seattle police officer from 1968 to 1975. He resigned for an “unknown cause,” according to a department spokesperson.
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