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PT mail thief pleads guilty in U.S. court Crimes include identity theft; restitution due BY CHARLIE BERMANT PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
TACOMA — A Port Townsend man whom police arrested with more than 1,000 pounds of stolen mail in February has pleaded guilty to bank
fraud, possession of stolen mail and aggravated identity theft. Adam Justin Lysiak, 39, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count each of the three crimes in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The remaining seven counts are to be dismissed at the sentencing hearing scheduled for 11 a.m. Feb. 28 in Tacoma before Judge Ronald B. Leighton, according to the plea agreement. Lysiak could face more than four years in prison for the
crimes: 24 months for the identity theft and 27 months for the possession of stolen mail and bank fraud charges, prosecutors said. Lysiak has been held in the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac since June 10, when he was transferred from the Jefferson County jail that had held him since his Feb. 12 arrest in Port Townsend. He was charged then with 12 counts of second-degree posses-
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$1,979 to an individual identified only as J.M. also was specified, while other victims may put forth restitution requests, according to the plea agreement. Victims of this crime who were previously contacted by the Port Townsend Police Department or the U.S. Postal Inspection Service may contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s VictimWitness Program at 800-7976722. TURN
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Embattled sanctuary receives donated food — and some good PR BY JOE SMILLIE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
FORKS –– A week after 18 protesters marched through the city demanding officials shut down Olympic Animal Sanctuary, groups in Forks and Olympia have organized drives to deliver food to Steve Markwell’s shelter for dangerous dogs. “Our goal is to do what we can to support Steve and take care of the dogs,” said Katherine Davis, one of the organizers of the Forks food drive for the shelter at 1021 Russell Road. As of Saturday, drives in Olympia and Forks had come up with Markwell 1,143 pounds of donated dog food for the sanctuary. Markwell brought back hundreds of pounds of bagged dog food to Forks from Olympia on Friday night. “I’m happy to have it. I’m real happy to have it,” Markwell said Saturday. “With all the bad PR — the protesting and everything else — I haven’t been getting the donations to buy what they need.”
sion of stolen property and one count of possession of stolen mail, pleaded not guilty in Jefferson County Superior Court and was facing an April trial when federal authorities took the case. The agreement requires Lysiak to make restitution to three financial institutions: $300 to Wells Fargo, $283 to Department Stores National Bank and $427 to American Express. Restitution in the amount of
ggrandmother caring for two small children received help with her utility bills. An out-of-work logger in Quilcene got money to obtain prescribed medicine. A fourth-grade student got the glasses he needed to do his schoolwork in Port Townsend. Material was provided to help a volunteer group assist a Port Angeles woman with repairs to her mobile home. A Forks woman received a load of wood to heat her house. Using a record-breaking $268,137 given in 2012, more than 3,000 individuals and households in Jefferson and Clallam counties have received help so far this year from the Peninsula Daily News’
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“hand up, not a handout” Peninsula Home Fund. From today to New Year’s Eve, the Peninsula Home Fund — a safety net for North Olympic Peninsula residents when there is nowhere else to turn — is seeking contributions for its annual holiday season fundraising campaign. The Peninsula Daily News will publish stories every Wednesday and Sunday during the campaign listing contributors and reporting on how the fund works.
Peninsula safety net The Peninsula Home Fund is a unique nonprofit program: ■ No money is deducted by the Peninsula Daily News for administration
fees or any other overhead. Every penny goes to OlyCAP — nonprofit Olympic Community Action Programs — the No. 1 emergency-care agency on the Peninsula. The money goes to help the most vulnerable members of our community, from infants to families to seniors. Please note: Because of heavy community demands, the loss of grants because of the economy and recent cuts in government funding, OlyCAP beginning in 2012 was permitted to use 10 percent — 10 cents of every dollar donated — to pay for the vital programs and services for Home Fund clients. OlyCAP has kept it below 10 percent — specifically, 8.9 percent. TURN
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October 2012 investigation Markwell was investigated but not cited for animal cruelty charges by Forks police in October 2012. With pictures taken from the police report and others from a former volunteer, an international campaign to shut Markwell down has spread through social media over the past year. Critics submitted a petition signed online by hundreds in June. Local officials have said they receive multiple daily calls for action. Other animal rescue organizations have offered to take in the dogs, opponents say, but Markwell, who believes the dogs should not be killed, said he fear others might euthanize the dogs. TURN
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GPS inside tracks tsunami debris patterns BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Among the driftwood and debris on North Olympic Peninsula beaches, visitors may find international-orange and yellow bottles that aren’t debris at all. Researchers from Tottori University and the National SHELTER/A5 Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s Marine Debris Program are seeking 150 sodabottle GPS drift transponders that were dropped into the water off the coast of Japan to study debris drift patterns after the massive March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Each transponder bottle includes instructions for contacting researchers. Beachcombers are asked to watch for these transponders, which were put into the water three months after the tsunami, and follow directions on the bottles. Tottori, a national university in Japan, is located in Koyama-
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