The suspect is the second in less than a week who, while awaiting trial in Kitsap Superior Court on two other felony cases, was accused of a third violent crime.
Gun shop burglar now accused of shoplifting $1,600 in AR-15 parts
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Matthew Howard Wright, 31, is accused of taking nine items from Sportsman s Warehouse on three separate occasions in March and April.
A Kitsap County sheriff s investigator identified Wright after a security guard confronted a suspect on the way out of the store and copied the license plate number on the car he was driving, according to court documents charging Wright last week in Kitsap County Superior Court with second-degree theft. Wright is not in custody and is scheduled to be arraigned June 15.
The security guard told investigators the suspect selected items, used a sharp tool to open the packaging and then walked out of the store without paying for them. The items were described as parts to build or repair AR-15 rifles.
Ex-Bremerton detective pleads guilty to three felonies, gets drug treatment
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A former Bremerton police detective caught on camera pocketing cash during a search of a suspected drug dealer’s house pleaded guilty to three felonies but avoided prison when he was sentenced Thursday.
Instead, Jeffery Lane Inklebarger, 52, will be sent to inpatient drug treatment, as his crimes were found to have been motivated by a prescription pill addiction, said Deputy Prosecutor Tim Lewis. Inklebarger spent 18 years as a police officer and had been assigned to the department’s Special Operations Group, primarily investigating drug crime, for about two months in February 2019 before the homeowner s camera recorded him stealing the cash. Inklebarger started with the department in 2004.
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Saying she would sentence him longer if she could, a Kitsap County Superior Court judge gave a sex offender 12 ½ years in prison for an online extortion scheme targeting gay men in which he assumed the identity of a prior victim.
Judge Jennifer Forbes told Christopher Malik Longmire, 25, the 152-month maxim sentence was “not enough.”
“I’ve come to the conclusion that our society needs to be protected from you as long as the law will allow,” Forbes said.
Kitsap County sheriff’s detectives started unraveling the scheme in January 2017 after authorities in California traced the extortion threats back to Kitsap County.