Although the Seattle police chief stopped short of filing assault charges against one of her officers, she did fire the department veteran for using excessive force during a 2014 incident in which he punched a female suspect in the face. “How and when officers use force is a central core of depa...
A Washington state man who is accused of bilking nearly $550,000 from 17 elderly investors was arrested earlier this month and faces more than 50 charges related to fraud and theft. His bail was set at $100,000. The purported financial advisor is accused of setting up a Ponzi scheme to lure inve...
A Washington state man who shot at a car thief earlier this month is the one who found himself in jail after police suspect one of his stray bullets killed a neighbor in her home. The incident occurred at about 11:15 p.m. in Bonney Lake, about 40 miles south of Seattle, but the injured 61-year-o...
Detectives in Burien, about 20 minutes south of Seattle, are trying to determine whether multiple arson fires and anti-Semitic graffiti at a home are hate crimes. Earlier this month, in the predawn, emergency dispatch received a report of an explosion at a home. When firefighters and sheriff's d...
A former police officer whose history of using excessive force, twice got his police department sued, pleaded guilty this month to violating the rights of an injured suspect by pepper spraying him while he was handcuffed to a hospital gurney. Under the plea agreement, Nicholas Hogan will be prohi...
A Washington state man is facing a felony charge for an internet hoax that interfered with 911 dispatch operations in late October. The 18-year-old from Thurston County was sent a link by a friend. He tested the link to see if it worked, then posted it to his Twitter page as a joke. Smartphone u...
Seattle police are looking for a suspect who has, at least four times in the last two months, thrown rocks from bridges over Interstate 5. So far no injuries have been reported, but five cars have been damaged. Over the summer, in Centralia, Wash., a man was arrested, suspected of throwing rocks...
More than 20 years after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor, a Washington state man has had his case dismissed. Rodney Antonson, 51, pleaded guilty in 1995 to indecent exposure. He was arrested as part of a police sting operation in a public park that was targeting men seeking sex with other men. ...
A Seattle man who was given a second chance at freedom -- and half a million dollars -- after a wrongful conviction landed him in prison, is headed back behind bars for selling drugs and a gun to an undercover informant. In 2013, the man was released after a decade in prison when the local Innoc...
Two daycare workers have been sentenced to prison in a case prosecutors called a “baby fight club.” Jurors heard “shocking stories” of the defendants viciously beating, torturing, force-feeding and tormenting children in a Virginia daycare play area called the “monkey room.” The incidents that w...
Have you ever been tapped by police to stand in a line-up so a witness to a crime can pick-out a potential suspect? If your answer is, “No,” think again. Unbeknownst to most Americans, the Federal Bureau of Investigations has compiled a database from the driver's license photos of 64 million peo...
A Tacoma doctor who served prison time and lost his right to practice medicine after falsely testing positive for cocaine has had his conviction overturned, but he still cannot treat patients. An Army court of appeals set aside the conviction which was based on a 2011 urine test that was mishand...
A man who plead guilty last month to throwing acid in the face of a judge was sentenced to more the 14 years in prison for the 2012 attack. Michael E. Martin, 36, went to the home of Thurston County District Court Judge Michael “Brett” Buckley after the judge granted a domestic violence protecti...
A man posing as a Seattle pornographer to lure victims to his Seattle apartment is now being sought by police for multiple counts of rape. So far, investigators have identified nine women who reported the 40-year-old freelance journalist had sex with them or attempted to have sex with them under...
A 25-year-old choir teacher has been arrested on suspicion of sexual misconduct with a student. The woman, who teaches at Lynnwood High School, was placed on administrative leave earlier this month after district officials became aware of allegations that she had a sexual relationship with a stu...
This year an estimated 203 cruise ships carrying nearly 960,000 passengers is expected to depart from the Port of Seattle. Hundreds of crimes are committed aboard cruise ships each year and in the past, data shows, neither the companies nor law enforcement were eager to investigate. However, a l...
Seattle police arrested one of their own after the self-described “predator” was accused of groping three fellow police department employees -- two women and a man. The 26-year-veteran of the police force was charged earlier this month with three counts of fourth-degree assault, a gross misdemea...
A Washington state lifeguard has been charged with eight counts of voyeurism after police found videos -- including some of the underaged girls -- taken in the locker room of a swimming pool where he worked. The 25-year-old lifeguard was arrested in early September at a Redmond members-only pool...
The trial is set to start next week in the case of a man accused of killing one student and wounding two others in a 2014 shooting on the Seattle Pacific University campus. Aaron Ybarra, now 29, is charged with murder in the first degree, three counts of attempted murder in the first degree and ...
A Seattle man who admitted to “driving like an idiot,” has been charged with vehicular homicide in a crash that killed a 58-year-old woman. In Washington, a driver can be charged with vehicular homicide if, within three years of a vehicle crash, a person dies of injuries related to the incident,...
A suspected gunman was arrested over the weekend in a Friday night shooting that left five shoppers at a Burlington, Wash., mall dead. Burlington is about an hour north of Seattle. The victims range in age from a 16-year-old cancer survivor to a 95-year-old woman who was shot and killed along wi...
Heightened concerns over recent bombings in the United States have prompted a Seattle court to charge a man with malicious placement of an imitation explosive device after he left an empty suitcase in front of a police precinct. Per the Revised Code of Washington, an "imitation device" means a d...
Perjured testimony is rampant in courts across the country, yet those who lie on the witness stand are rarely prosecuted. Perjury is a federal crime. Generally, a witness in a trial commits perjury when he or she knowingly and intentionally lies about a material issue. And if someone asked the w...
With heroin use approaching epidemic proportions in the United States, a Seattle task force has a unique solution to the problem of illicit drug use: provide medical supervision to addicts who use illegal drugs. If successful, the pilot project would be the first such program in the United State...
A registered sex offender who went to the sheriff's department to turn in his paperwork was arrested again, after masturbating in the office. The 50-year-old man was charged with felony indecent exposure, accused of masturbating in front of a sheriff's employee in mid-August when he went to the ...
