A 20-year-old man, who Kent Police are investigating in connection with the shooting death of former Kentridge High school standout Devin Topps, was charged Dec. 23 by King County prosecutors with first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
Jorge Luis Lizarraga, who had been living in a Des Moines motel over the last few weeks, remained Dec. 27 in the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center jail in lieu of $750,000 bail.
Charles Wells is the Seattle Thunderbirds Player of the Week
What do the Seattle Thunderbirds and Kent's Morford Family Carousel have in common?
If you said "both go around in circles while music plays," well, that's not the answer.
A gang confrontation outside Southcenter Mall Sunday night resulted in gunfire and a multi-agency police response.
There were no injuries, but multiple youths were detained, including one 15-year-old armed with a pistol.
I know it sounds really strange, but I do my best thinking in the shower. For some reason, it’s the one place my brain seems to fire correctly and the ideas flow. Yesterday, for example, I was thinking while showering, “I wonder what extra-terrestrials would think about our Christmas celebrations?” I conjured up so many thoughts on that subject that I used up all the hot water in the shower.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke hopes to hire a new police chief to replace outgoing Chief Steve Strachan within the next couple of months.
Deputy chief Mike Painter will serve as interim chief starting Jan. 3 until a replacement is hired.
Steve Strachan’s work during his 4 1/2 years as Kent Police chief came into perspective for him one morning last week, when he read a department e-mail about a prior day’s arrest.
“Two patrol officers doing diligent work put a gang member pimping juvenile girls into jail,” Strachan recalled, during a Dec. 17 interview at his office. “The (three-month long) case started because two patrol officers got information and ran with it.”
A 32-year-old Renton man was sentenced Thursday to 4 1/2 years in prison on two counts of vehicular homicide for the deaths of two Des Moines women Aug. 24 in a three-car accident in Kent.
It will take at least another four to six weeks before the Portland man arrested Dec. 10 in connection with the killing of a Kent city employee is brought to Washington to face a murder charge.
William L. Phillip Jr., 30, refused to waive extradition at a Dec. 21 hearing in Portland, according to Ian Goodhew, deputy chief of staff for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Kent Police have made an arrest in the Oct. 31 shooting death of Kentridge High School athletic standout Devin Topps.
Police took a 20-year-old Auburn man into custody Tuesday evening for investigation of first-degree murder after he was tracked down at a SeaTac 7-Eleven store at South 194th Street and Pacific Highway South.
Kent Police are asking the public to help find a man allegedly connected with the death of a 45-year-old Kent woman found Tuesday at her East Hill apartment.
Officers found the body of Bonnie K. Peterson inside her Village at Lake Meridan apartment, 25811 110th Ave. S.E., after a call from a concerned friend.
Time is the only thing Joey Sexton is counting these days.
The hours and minutes that unfold as her daughter, Jayne Johnson, lays asleep in her hospital bed.
Those hours are the key to a process slowly unfolding in Jayne’s body. While Joey sits in that hospital room, the clock ticking away, it will only be more time before the answers finally come.
“Her body’s healing; she’s sleeping; I’m watching,” Joey said.
Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra invites you to join its 2010-2011 season beginning Jan. 3. Mid-season auditions are scheduled for Jan. 5 and 12 at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 23855 S.E. 216th St., Maple Valley, WA 98038.
Kent Police are investigating a 23-year-old Federal Way man for vehicular homicide in connection with a single-car crash Dec. 17 on the East Hill that killed a 32-year-old Kent man, one of his four passengers.
Kent Police found a 45-year-old Kent woman dead Tuesday in her East Hill apartment from a "violent homicidal death."
Police responded to a call at about 10:22 a.m. Tuesday from a friend of the woman about a suspicious death at an apartment at the Village at Lake Meridian Apartments, 25811 110th Ave. S.E.
An officer pursued three males who reportedly robbed a man but then could not find the trio or the man who initially flagged down a patrol car.
An officer drove southbound along 64th Avenue South near Meeker Street at about 1:40 a.m. Dec. 4 when a shirtless man ran out in the street in front of the patrol car waving his arms for the car to stop, according to the police report.
The Kent City Council has approved a $66,000 per year contract with Doug Levy to serve as a state lobbyist for the city in 2011.
Levy has received an annual consulting services agreement from the city each year since 2000. The Council approved the contract Dec. 14.
Kent Police and other King County law enforcement agencies continue to add extra patrols as part of the holiday Drive Hammered, Get Nailed campaign by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
The holiday crackdown by police against drunk and other impaired drivers started before Thanksgiving and runs through Jan. 2.
Kent firefighters responded to two house fires Monday morning on the East Hill.
The first fire at 1 a.m. in the 12400 block of Southeast 235th Street displaced a family of three. The second fire at 6:48 a.m. in the 11000 block of Southeast 217th Street sent a woman to the hospital, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.
The Washington State Patrol is looking for help to find the victim or victims of a drive-by shooting that occurred at about 3 a.m. Dec. 11 on northbound Interstate 405 near State Route 167.
