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The County agreed to pay $2.75 million to a former Navy man injured in a standoff seven years ago.

A county in Washington state has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a former U.S. Navy master chief who was shot while trying to help deputies subdue an armed sailor following a 2017 standoff.

Island County has agreed to pay $2.75 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a former Navy master chief who was shot while trying to help the county’s Sheriff’s Office deputies and its scene commander subdue an armed sailor following a 2017 standoff.

The lawsuit alleges officers responding to a call broke down the door to an apartment in the wrong building and badly frightened a woman preparing for a bath.

A Seattle woman is suing the City after police officers broke down her door and raided her home only to discover they were at the wrong address. 

The lawsuit alleges officers responding to a call broke down the door to an apartment in the wrong building and badly frightened a woman preparing for a bath.

Elisabeth Rehn had been preparing a bath when she heard a loud thumping at the door of her Belltown apartment. She fumbled for a jacket and wrapped it around herself just as the door burst open, …

Heath Garcia was shot in the foot with a high-powered rifle slung across the back of a deputy trying to arrest one of Garcias shipmates, Nicholas Perkins, who was drunk, suicidal and had barricaded himself in his house with several weapons, including a fully automatic M4 rifle.