Prosecution
Supreme Court considering cutting records access
EVERETT -- An advisory committee to the state Supreme Court is considering proposals that could curtail public access to some court records.
Date: 05/10/2013 | Local News
Many loyal to Jayme Biendl's legacy
MONROE -- Jayme Biendl certainly has not been forgotten during the 823 days it has taken for her suspected killer to go to trial.In January, 450 people descended on Monroe to honor the slain prison...
Date: 05/01/2013 | Local News
Trial delayed in 1995 killing, disappearance
EVERETT -- A convicted rapist charged with murdering two women in 1995 now won't face trial before September.
Date: 04/26/2013 | Local News
Charges filed in robbery of special ed student
EVERETT -- A former Mountlake Terrace High School senior accused of breaking the jaw of a special education student was charged with first-degree robbery Wednesday.The allegation adds to the mounting legal troubles facing Darian Tyler Sharpe, 18.
Date: 04/25/2013 | Local News
Woman charged with murder in air rifle case
EVERETT -- A Lynnwood woman now stands charged with murder, accused of killing a man with an air rifle that she used to scare off rats.Emergency crews found Dean Urness, 52, down on the ground last month. He had been shot in the chest. Urness
Date: 04/20/2013 | Local News
Accused tire-slasher claims he was drunk, high
MARYSVILLE -- A Marysville man accused of malicious mischief in a tire-slashing spree last December allegedly hit close to home.His next door neighbor had her tires punctured, too, according to a police report used to establish probable cause for his arrest.
Date: 04/19/2013 | Local News
Tulalip-area man charged with murder in shootout
EVERETT -- Prosecutors on Thursday took the first step to convict a Tulalip-area man of murder in connection with the fatal shooting in July outside the Blue Stilly park.
Date: 04/11/2013 | Local News
Lawmakers look at compensating wrongfully convicted
OLYMPIA -- Alan Northrop anxiously waits outside a Senate committee hearing, his girlfriend rubbing his shoulders and whispering words of support as he prepares to sign in to testify about nearly two decades of freedom lost."Oh boy, here we go," he says as the door opens.
Date: 04/05/2013 | Northwest
3rd person faces murder charge in stabbing death
EVERETT -- A third person is facing a murder charge in connection with the April 23 stabbing death of Luis Verudzco.Prosecutors allege that Martin Salazar was present when Verduzco, 23, was robbed, stabbed and pushed from a vehicle in Everett.
Date: 04/02/2013 | Local News
Tables turned in Monroe burglary attempt
MONROE -- A Sultan man tangled with the wrong night watchman at a Monroe business last month.James Mellett, 52, told the cops he was too overweight and too slow to escape the strong grip of a man guarding a Monroe masonry business, court papers said. Police found Mellett...
Date: 03/23/2013 | Local News
Monroe wants own municipal court
MONROE -- City leaders want to establish a municipal court in Monroe by 2015.Monroe contracts with the county district courts system to process misdemeanors, citations and traffic infractions, Monroe police spokeswoman Debbie Willis said. Felony cases are handled in...
Date: 03/16/2013 | Local News
Inmate could face longer sentence for alleged escape
EVERETT -- A Monroe inmate accused of making a prison break in November could be facing more time behind bars.Prosecutors on Thursday charged Brandon Musto with escape for slipping out of a minimum security unit located just outside the main prison walls.Musto...
Date: 03/15/2013 | Local News
Suspect in felony theft of wallet pleads not guilty
EVERETT -- An Everett man is now facing a felony theft charge for a purse-snatching that left another man fighting for his life.
Date: 03/15/2013 | Local News
Scherf death penalty challenged again
EVERETT -- Lawyers for a convicted rapist who is accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer in 2011 are again challenging whether prosecutors should be allowed to seek his execution.
Date: 03/13/2013 | Local News
Identity theft brings 5-year term for Everett man
EVERETT -- Louis Trenary was consistent -- the judge gave him that.For the past decade, Trenary, 46, of Everett, racked up about a dozen felonies for identity theft, forgery and the like. He added to his portfolio this week with fresh convictions.That...
Date: 02/28/2013 | Local News
Man gets 8 years for attempt to run over Bothell officer
EVERETT -- A convicted felon who tried to run down a Bothell police officer during a traffic stop was sentenced Monday to more than eight years in prison.
Date: 02/26/2013 | Local News
Hitch in new 'Barefoot Bandit' charge
SEATTLE -- There's a problem with one of two new charges filed against "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore: He already pleaded guilty to it.The youthful thief who gained international notoriety has acknowledged dozens of crimes and was sentenced to seven years in prison as...
Date: 02/25/2013 | Local News
Ex-EvCC runner charged with kidnapping, robbery
EVERETT -- A former Everett Community College runner accused of robbing an Everett bank allegedly spent the heist money on strippers and a used car.
Date: 02/23/2013 | Local News
4 face charges after raids of suspected drug house in Everett
EVERETT -- Two separate investigations into an alleged drug house in Everett has prompted prosecutors to charge four men with various felony crimes.
Date: 02/23/2013 | Local News
Everett pastor arrested in prostitution sting
EVERETT -- An Everett pastor is being accused of trying to pay a 16-year-old girl for sex.
Date: 02/21/2013 | Local News
Life term possible in slaying of Marysville man, 82
EVERETT -- A felon charged Wednesday with murder in the stabbing death of an elderly Marysville man could spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Date: 02/14/2013 | Local News
Bail raised to $500K for felon on firearm charges
EVERETT -- A convicted felon who once pointed a handgun at a police officer is facing criminal prosecution after Snohomish County sheriff's deputies allegedly found him seated in a stolen vehicle loaded with guns.
Date: 02/11/2013 | Local News
No trial before summer in pair of 1995 slayings
EVERETT -- A man charged with killing two Snohomish County women more than 17 years ago likely won't be going on trial until sometime this summer -- and that may be pushing things, a judge was told Thursday.Danny Ross Giles, 45, is
Date: 02/07/2013 | Local News
Man faces 25 years after guilty plea in Snohomish murder
EVERETT -- A Seattle man faces at least 25 years in prison for the July shooting death of a Mount Vernon teen who was missing for two months before his body was found in a shallow grave outside of Snohomish.
Date: 02/05/2013 | Local News
Man who allegedly shot girl, 4, with AirSoft charged
EVERETT -- A Lynnwood man is now charged with second-degree assault for allegedly tying up and shooting a 4-year-old girl with an AirSoft gun so often that the welts on her skin looked like chicken pox.
Date: 01/31/2013 | Local News
Memorial run Sunday for slain corrections officer
MONROE -- The course for the Jayme Biendl Memorial Run appropriately winds past the granite steps and tall columns leading into the Washington State Reformatory.
Date: 01/25/2013 | Local News
Marysville man gets life for robbing, kidnapping dealer
EVERETT -- At 34, Jeffrey Brinkley has struck out.
Date: 01/24/2013 | Local News
Man admits he tried to run down Bothell police officer
EVERETT -- A convicted felon who tried to run down a Bothell police officer during a traffic stop won't be steering anything more than a prison library cart in the near future.Joseph Medoro, who has a history of running from the cops, admitted Wednesday that he tried to ram...
Date: 01/24/2013 | Local News
Guilty plea in mugging
No murder charge expected despite death of elderly victim
Date: 01/18/2013 | Local News
$500,000 bail for sex offender arrested in standoff
EVERETT -- A judge on Wednesday set a hefty bail for a lanky man with a troubled past.
Date: 01/16/2013 | Local News
Edmonds officer accused of custodial sexual misconduct resigns
EDMONDS -- An Edmonds police officer accused of having sex with a woman while on duty has resigned.
Date: 01/15/2013 | Local News
Woman charged with murder in girl's death by neglect
TULALIP -- A second-degree murder charge has been filed against a Tulalip mother whose young daughter died of neglect.
Date: 01/11/2013 | Local News
Sheriff’s deputy fired after charged in theft
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County sheriff's deputy was fired last week in connection with a pending criminal case against him.
Date: 01/09/2013 | Local News
Criminal charges not planned in boy's overdose death
MONROE -- Snohomish County prosecutors don't expect to file criminal charges against the parents of a Monroe boy who fatally overdosed last year.
Date: 01/08/2013 | Local News
Pair charged after allegedly exposing child to meth smoke
EVERETT -- Felony child endangerment charges have been filed against a Lake Stevens couple who allegedly smoked meth while an 11-month-old baby was with them in their vehicle.
Date: 12/31/2012 | Local News
Chase suspect’s truck computer to be looked at
CLEARVIEW -- A Federal Way man who was shot earlier this month by a Washington State Patrol trooper claims he can't remember much about what led up to the gunfire. Police are looking for answers in data recovered from...
Date: 12/29/2012 | Local News
4 years later, Everett victim talks of near-fatal shooting
EVERETT -- John Forde could smell his own death approaching. It was the scent of blood, and of red-hot bullets burning his flesh.
Date: 12/20/2012 | Local News
New jury video tackles smartphones
Last week, I wrote about a Snohomish County child sex case that ended in a mistrial after a juror disobeyed the judge's orders and...
Date: 12/18/2012 | Sirens
Man sentenced for his role in 'obituary burglaries'
EVERETT -- When the police came calling, Nathan Shields was bedecked in stolen silver.
Date: 12/11/2012 | Local News
Woman charged in crash that injured pedestrians
EVERETT -- Prosecutors allege a Marysville woman was drunk and high on methamphetamine when her car mowed into a man and three children on an Everett sidewalk in July.
Date: 12/08/2012 | Local News
30 years for girl's torture
Mukilteo woman sentenced for starving, abusing 10-year-old
Date: 11/29/2012 | Local News
Who's wanted: County website lists active warrants
Thousands of people have outstanding warrants from Snohomish County courts.
Date: 11/26/2012 | Sirens
Two men face prosecution in sex trafficking case
EVERETT -- Two men face criminal prosecution in connection with the illegal sex trafficking of girls as young as 13, including incidents at a south Everett motel.
Date: 11/13/2012 | Local News
Shooting death of officer’s daughter goes to jury
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County jury on Friday began mulling whether a Marysville police officer was criminally negligent when he left a loaded, off-duty handgun where his 3-year-old son could use it to fatally shoot...
Date: 11/09/2012 | Local News
Trial opens in shooting death of officer's daughter
EVERETT -- A Marysville police officer repeatedly sobbed Thursday as a Snohomish County jury was told about how his daughter was fatally shot when his 3-year-old son grabbed a handgun left unsecured in the family's...
Date: 11/08/2012 | Local News
Trial in death of Marysville cop's daughter begins
EVERETT -- Opening statements were expected Thursday morning in the trial of a Marysville police officer whose daughter was fatally shot when his 3-year-old son grabbed a gun left unsecured in the family's...
Date: 11/08/2012 | Local News
How police found Bothell bank robbery suspect
SEATTLE -- The 29-year-old owner of a Bothell nursing home allegedly turned to robbing banks to feed a gambling addiction, according to police.Cristian C. Babalai was arrested Friday morning near his home just south of the Snohomish-King county line.
Date: 10/16/2012 | Local News
County prosecutors honored for DUI targeting
EVERETT -- They don't handle high-profile, headline-grabbing cases, but a team of Snohomish County prosecutors and staff are saving lives by aggressively pursuing drunken-driving and speeding cases.
Date: 10/11/2012 | Local News
Obituary burglar sentenced
Ring leader gets maximum for residential thefts
Date: 09/10/2012 | Local News
Child molestation suspect was working at Monroe fair’s kiddie land
EVERETT -- A Sultan woman awaiting trial on child molestation charges was hauled back to jail Wednesday after she was spotted working at a "kiddie land" booth at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe, officials said.
Date: 08/30/2012 | Local News
Evidence in boy's OD death may have been tampered with
MONROE -- Monroe detectives investigating the fatal overdose of a 7-year-old say the boy's parents gave conflicting stories about what happened in the hours leading up to the death, and likely tampered with evidence afterward.
Date: 08/30/2012 | Local News
Woman allegedly planned to kill husband
EVERETT -- Prosecutors now are alleging that an Everett woman planned to kill her husband when she attacked him with an electric saw, hatchet and mallet last year.
Date: 08/28/2012 | Local News
Fatal shooting by deputy called justified
BOTHELL -- A Snohomish County sheriff's deputy was legally justified last summer when he fatally shot a mentally ill man who charged at him with an upraised cane, the county's top prosecutor has concluded.
Date: 08/17/2012 | Local News
Trial for rapist, murder suspect delayed to January
EVERETT -- A convicted rapist allegedly linked by genetic evidence to the 1995 slayings of two Snohomish County women will remain behind bars into early 2013 as the courts continue trying to determine whether he is a sexually violent predator.
Date: 08/16/2012 | Local News
Judge requires unusual bail in child rape case
EVERETT -- In a unique ruling, a Snohomish County Superior Court judge told a defendant that he'll need to come up with $50,000 cash if he wants to get out of jail until his trial.
Date: 08/16/2012 | Local News
Police find drugs, gun allegedly stashed by suspect
EVERETT -- A Duvall man accused of trying to run down a Bothell police officer last month reportedly ditched a backpack stuffed with drugs and a loaded handgun before his capture.
Date: 08/07/2012 | Local News
Marysville woman gets prison for part in obituary burglary
EVERETT -- Michelle Herrera faced more than a judge and the knowledge she would be sentenced to prison.The Marysville woman on Tuesday also had to hear from her victims whose anguish remains fresh four months after their home was ransacked while they attended a funeral.
Date: 07/31/2012 | Local News
Man pleads guilty in 1999 rape of then-14-year-old girl
EVERETT -- For more than 12 years, the rape of a 14-year-old Everett girl went unsolved.Until now.
Date: 07/31/2012 | Local News
Three-strike lifers of Snohomish County
It's been almost 20 years since Washington voters overwhelmingly passed the Persistent Offender Accountability Act -- more commonly known as the "three-strikes" law. In Snohomish County, 32 people have been sentenced to life in...
Date: 07/29/2012 | Need to Know
Search of booby-trapped Colorado home echoes 1973 Everett home
EVERETT -- As John Korsborn watched news reports about the booby-trapped Colorado apartment of suspected mass killer James Holmes, the retired Everett detective remembered a...
Date: 07/25/2012 | Local News
Everett man pleads guilty to selling pirated movies
SEATTLE -- An Everett man on Wednesday admitted that he operated websites that sold pirated movies, television shows and workout videos.
Date: 07/19/2012 | Local News
Felony drug charges filed for Marysville pot farm
MARYSVILLE -- A Lake Stevens man who has operated a medical marijuana cooperative in Shoreline is in legal trouble in Snohomish County after detectives here found about 400 marijuana plants in a Marysville building.
Date: 07/06/2012 | Local News
Man pleads guilty in fatal overdose of girl, 17
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County man faces about two years in prison for his part in the 2011 overdose death of a Marysville teenager.
Date: 07/05/2012 | Local News
Woodinville man faces 8 years for metal thefts
EVERETT -- A Woodinville man could pay a heavy price for dealing in stolen manhole covers.
Date: 07/02/2012 | Local News
More charges for suspect in county obit burglaries
EVERETT -- Prosecutors have added five more felony charges against a Lake Stevens man accused of taking part in a series of burglaries that occurred while families were at the funerals of loved ones.
Date: 06/29/2012 | Local News
Snohomish schools sued over students’ stabbing
SNOHOMISH -- An October knife attack that nearly ended in death for one girl and left another seriously injured happened because Snohomish High School school officials and staff at a Kirkland mental hospital failed to take...
Date: 06/29/2012 | Local News
Prosecutor explains his decision in Reardon case
If you want to better understand the reasons a criminal case was not brought this week against Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon, there is no better place to get your information than from the man who made the...
Date: 06/15/2012 | Need to Know
Whidbey man charged with murder in wife's death
COUPEVILLE -- Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a Whidbey Island man with first-degree murder in connection with his wife's death earlier this month.
Date: 06/13/2012 | Local News
'An accident ... not a crime'
Officer pleads not guilty in shooting death of daughter
Date: 06/05/2012 | Local News
Judge says jury will hear Scherf’s statements
EVERETT -- A judge cleared the way Tuesday for prosecutors to turn an inmate's own words against him next year in his death-penalty trial over the killing of a Monroe corrections officer.
Date: 06/05/2012 | Local News
Everett woman accused of scamming $775K from son
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An Everett woman and her husband have been indicted on federal fraud charges based on allegations that the couple scammed their adoptive son out of the nearly $800,000 he received as part of a civil lawsuit settlement.
Date: 06/01/2012 | Local News
Pot-growing Everett father gets 4 years in prison
EVERETT -- An Everett man convicted of illegally growing marijuana and involving his children in his indoor pot farm was sentenced to more than four years in prison Thursday.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Local News
18 years for wife's killing
Man shot victim 8 times in their Lynnwood-area home
Date: 05/22/2012 | Local News
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