Three new officers join Kent Police

Published 3:35 pm Friday, September 23, 2016

Mayor Suzette Cooke swore in Kent’s newest police officers during the Sept. 20 City Council meeting.

Officers Ian Lentz, Chellsi James and Matthew Levi joined the force.

• Lentz worked two years as a corrections officer at the city jail. He was raised in Puyallup and is married with three children.

• James, from Montana, is married to a Seattle Police officer and they have two kids. She previously worked as a preschool teacher and nanny.

• Levi, who is married with two children, came to Kent after seven years as a sheriff’s office deputy in northern Nevada.