Posted: February 8, 2021
Edmonds Police Sgt. Shane Hawley was injured in Saturday’s attack. (Photos courtesy Edmonds police)
Edmonds police say they are referring mutiple charges, including felony assault, to the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office after a 23-year-old Mountlake Terrace man attacked a Swedish Hospital employee last Saturday morning before fleeing the hospital and running naked through the streets of Edmonds. The suspect also assaulted three more people, including a 71-year old woman and an Edmonds police sergeant, before being taken into custody.
According to Edmonds police spokesperson Sgt. Josh McClure, the incident unfolded around 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 6 when officers responded to an assault that had just occurred at Swedish Hospital. “The suspect had committed an unprovoked and vicious attack on a medical technician by punching her three times in the head and face as she sat at her work station,” McClure said. The suspect had been brought to the
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: December 18, 2020
Examples of graffiti investigated and referred for prosecution. (Photos courtesy Washington State Patrol)
The Washington State Patrol said Friday it has referred charges to the Snohomish County Prosecutor’s Office on five men after a months-long investigation into urban graffiti on area roadways.
Beginning in late 2019, Snohomish County troopers observed a large increase in graffiti on interstate and state route bridges, traffic signs and sound barriers in the southern and central areas of Snohomish County. The cost to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) for covering the graffiti is estimated to exceed $100,000 a year in Snohomish County alone, the state patrol said.