Friday, August 10, 2012
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Silverdale man charged with Teamsters city contract, a shooting girlfriend in the leg ‘tough pill to swallow’ By KEVAN MOORE kmoore@soundpublishing.com
A Silverdale man was charged Thursday in Kitsap County Superior Court with first-degree domestic violence assault and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm following an early morning shooting Wednesday. Prosecutors allege that Dan Allen Phillips, 47, shot Kelly L. Contraro, a 45-yearold Suquamish woman, in the knee with a high powered rifle. Phillips was was under a court order to stay away from Contraro. That order was issued in District Court May 30 following a fourth-degree assault charge. Phillips subsequently made bail. He is now in custody again on $1 million bail. Police responded to a report of a gunshot injury in the 8100 block of Hideaway
Lane at 2:25 a.m. Wednesday. Kitsap County Sheriff ’s Office Deputies and officers from Bremerton and Poulsbo responded to the area and found the woman in the passenger seat of a pickup truck in a ditch. She had a critical gunshot wound to her knee and was transported to Harrison and subsequently airlifted to Harborview Medical Center. According to court documents, “deputies described her leg as barely hanging on.” According to police, Phillips was at the scene when they arrived and refused to follow commands and made furtive movements. Two deputies also heard what sounded like Phillips “racking” a firearm. He eventually fled on foot westbound on Fishhook Lane. At about the same time that
Contraro was being taken to the hospital, a Bremerton police officer spotted Phillips exiting a wooded area on the north side of Newberry Hill Road. Following a brief foot chase, Phillips surrendered without further incident. According to court documents, Contraro told a friend that she went to see Phillips at his Silverdale home and left sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight. The friend got another call from Contraro at 2:43 a.m. in which she said, “He shot me.” The friend also said that Contraro said if she didn’t make it, to tell her kids that she loved them. According to court documents Phillips has past convictions for vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and violation of the Uniform Controlled Substance Act, all of which prohibit him from possessing firearms.
By KEVAN MOORE kmoore@sounpublishing.com
After months of negotiations and mediation, the city signed a collective bargaining agreement with it’s Teamsters employees. The new contract, which retroactively goes into effect eight months ago and will run through Dec. 31, 2013 and is largely favorable to the city. The Teamsters, for example, will get no cost of living adjustments (COLA) and will have to pay significantly more for dependents to be covered on their health insurance plans. “I think the no COLA and getting them to pay
more on their dependents’ premiums was huge,” said Human Resources Director Charlotte Delmore. The Teamsters, of course, weren’t quite as thrilled. “I’m not at all happy with the agreement for our members and would have very much liked for the end result to have been better,” said John Witt, the Teamsters chief negotiator and secretary-treasurer for Local 589. “But, we are in a recession and statewide, the public sector is really taking a beating.” Witt, though, said that there is room for hope as new negotiations begin for 2014 right away.
About a third of the city’s 320 employees are Teamsters. Under the new contract, Teamsters employees’ cost for dependents’ health care will go from a 10 percent contribution to 15 percent this year and will eventually increase to 20 percent. In addition part-time employees will have a prorated benefits package. In addition, the Teamsters’ tool allowance will go from $475 to $525 and the stipend for employees that don’t take health care will go from $150 to $250. “None of us were real happy and it was a tough pill to swallow,” Witt said.
Armed robbery suspect shot at by police is still at large Man who worked at restaurant that was robbed is now in custody By KEVAN MOORE kmoore@soundpublishing.com
Bremerton police have made one arrest, but a second suspect remains at large following an early morning armed robbery Saturday in East Bremerton in which an officer fired “several” bullets at man who was able to escape unharmed. Bremerton police officers and county deputies responded at 3:37 a.m. Saturday to an armed robbery at the Taco Bell restaurant, in the Ridell Shopping Center, at 4212 Wheaton Way. About five minutes later, according to both agencies, a Bremerton officer stopped a vehicle with a driver who matched the description of the suspect, later identified by Bremerton police as Sean T. Brown, 26, a few blocks south of the fast food restaurant, near Almira and Spruce. “During the course of that traffic stop the officer fired multiple rounds at the driver, who was standing outside of See SUSPECT, A12
the vehicle at the time,” according to a Bremerton Police Department statement on the incident.
Police won’t say if the man they believe was Brown fired at their officer or even had a gun at the time of the shooting. Neither the officer nor the alleged suspect were injured, according to police. The officer is now
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