An Orcas Island woman with extensive criminal history is contesting a five-year prison sentence handed down in the wake recent convictions for felony burglary and misdemeanor theft.
San Juan County could find itself having to redo a significant portion of its critical areas ordinance if allegations that the council violated the state Open Meetings Act in preparing the recently approved, controversial land-use regulations are determined to be true.
Both received a personal invitation from official sources. And the event was close to the heart of each.
County Councilman Marc Forlenza is recuperating at a Bellingham hospital after suffering a heart attack at his Friday Harbor home early Tuesday.
Sheriff Rob Nou said that emergency medical personnel responded to Forlenza’s Friday Harbor home after receiving a medical call from his First Street residence early Tuesday morning. Nou said Forlenza, elected to the council in November, was transported by ambulance to Friday Harbor Airport and then flown to a hospital on the mainland.
An Orcas Island man accused of choking a live-in girlfriend and throwing her to the floor several times, as a late-night argument at their Deer Harbor home escalated into an altercation, is slated to stand trial in mid-May on charges of felony assault and restraining the woman against her will.
A 19-year-old former Lopez Island man accused of causing a high-speed crash on San Juan Island in September, in which a Friday Harbor teen suffered a broken pelvis and was pinned in the wreckage for hours, will stand trial on charges of vehicular assault in mid-May.
An Orcas Island man who admitted to brutalizing a live-in girlfriend during an alcohol-fueled two-day attack was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to two felonies, including third-degree rape.
Two years after his request to relocate to San Juan Island was denied by state corrections officials, a level 3 sex offender is expected to make the island his home sometime in the near future.
At this pace, drivers in San Juan County are headed toward an all-time high, inglorious though it may be.
The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office made 16 DUI arrests in the month of January. If that rate were to hold, the number of DUI arrests would hit 180 over the course of the year. That’s nearly double the 93 of 2011, one of the highest totals in recent years.
The San Juan County Council appointed Orcas Island’s Tim Blanchard to the county planning commission on Jan. 29.
The penalties start with 30 days in jail for a Suquamish man in the wake of a high-speed boating collision that left one man with a shattered pelvis, another with a broken shoulder and several others scrambling for safety after being catapulted into the waters of Wasp Passage in July, 2011.
An Orcas Island woman accused of peddling stolen goods at a pawn shop in Federal Way faces felony charges in connection with the holiday-time heist at an Eastsound jewelry store.
