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They had hatched a scheme to cut power in Pierce County and rob A.T.M.s and local businesses, leaving thousands in the Tacoma area without power on Christmas Day, prosecutors said.

SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state man who is already in federal custody on weapons and hate crime charges has been indicted in a series of arsons at Jehovah's Witness kingdom halls, authorities announced Wednesday.

Washington man indicted in fires at Jehovah's Witness halls | 2022-12-15 06:41:48

A Washington state man who is already in federal custody on weapons and hate crime charges has been indicted in a series of arsons at Jehovah’s Witness kingdom halls

A Washington state man who is already in federal custody on weapons and hate crime charges has been indicted in a series of arsons at Jehovah’s Witness kingdom halls, authorities announced Wednesday.

A Washington state man who is already in federal custody on weapons charges has now been indicted in a series of arsons at Jehovah’s Witness kingdom halls. Seattle U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said in a news release Wednesday that the new charges against 50-year-old Mikey Diamond Starrett, also known as Michael Jason Layes, are part of the Justice Department’s efforts to target hate crimes. Prosecutors previously said Starrett was being investigated for eight attacks on the worship halls. Late T...

SEATTLE (AP) -- A Washington state man who is already in federal custody on weapons and hate crime charges has been indicted in a series of arsons at

Abidemi Rufai’s brazen and repeated pilfering of coronavirus relief funds eventually helped freeze the entire unemployment system in the state of Washington.

Alexander David Friend was charged Thursday in Kitsap County Superior Court with two counts of unlawful possession of an incendiary device.

SEATTLE (AP) — A Nigerian government official arrested in connection with Washington state’s $650 million unemployment fraud will remain in jail until his trial, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S.