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Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
August 28, 2011
Two 12-year-old boys held over alleged murder plot Also accused of planning rape; both plead not guilty By Tom Callis
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Two 12-year-old boys are facing criminal charges after police said they were notified they plotted to kill the parents of one of the youths and rape his sister. The Port Angeles boys pleaded not guilty Thursday in Clallam County Juvenile
Court to charges of two counts of conspiracy to commit firstdegree murder and one count of first-degree conspiracy to commit rape. The Peninsula Daily News is not naming the boys because of their age and because their cases are being handled in Juvenile Court. According to police, one of the boys told the other he
would be accepted as a “ninja apprentice” if he killed his own parents and brought his juvenile sister to a “victory party,” where they planned to rape her. That sister heard her brother talking on the phone about the plan and then told her parents, according to court documents. The parents notified police, who arrested the boys Monday, said Deputy Police Chief Brian Smith. They were both being held at the Clallam County Juvenile Detention Center on Fri-
day in lieu of $10,000 bail. Smith said he has received no indication that the plot was a joke. “To say we took it very seriously would be an understatement,” he said. The boy allegedly given the task of murdering his parents told police he had attempted to carry out the crime, according to court documents. He allegedly obtained a sledgehammer from the family’s shed and hid it near the home. Turn
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Mourning ceremony at site of fatal crash
U.S. Border Patrol meet not yet set But congressional staff inquiry into Peninsula activities, buildup vowed By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Friends of relatives of Darrell E. Campbell, a member of the Ahousaht First Nation of Vancouver Island, gather Friday to place flowers and other items at an impromptu shrine near the spot where Campbell was killed the day before. More than 110 people visited the site on state Highway 112 at Sands Road.
Prayers for man killed in collision By Tom Callis Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — The family of Darrell Campbell, killed in a two-vehicle wreck on state Highway 112 on Thursday, held a prayer ceremony for the Ahousaht First Nation member Friday at the crash site.
As many as 113 people, including relatives and members of North Olympic Peninsula and Canadian tribes, visited the site near Sands Road that day, laying flowers and performing prayers, said Pat John, a nephew of Campbell. Law enforcement stopped traffic on the highway while the
prayers were conducted, John said. An Isuzu Rodeo driven by 48-year-old Steve W. Boyd of Port Angeles, who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol at the time, struck the Ford Ranger carrying Campbell and two relatives at 8:11 a.m. Turn
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Time is running short. But the office of U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is still trying to arrange a meeting by Wednesday with the U.S. Border Patrol Blaine Sector Chief John Bates. Dicks’ spokesman George Behan said two week ago, Dicks wanted his staff and staff members from U.S. Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to meet with Bates by the end of August to discuss stepped-up Border Patrol activities and staffing in Clallam and Jefferson counties. Those activities have riled some residents of Clallam and Jefferson counties enough to publicly demonstrate against the agents’ increased public presence. The meeting “still hasn’t been put together,” Behan said Thursday, adding that Cantwell and Murray staffers have agreed to participate.
‘End of the month’ “I expect it will be by the end of the month,” Behan said. “Part of the issue is trying to put everyone in the same place.” The Blaine sector encompasses Alaska, Oregon and the western half of Washington state, including the 6th Congressional District, represented by Dicks. Sector spokesman Richard Sinks said Bates will attend the meeting if he is available. “If not, he will have whoever is taking his position during his absence attend,” Sinks said. Turn
Ailing Anderson Lake reopened By Leah Leach Peninsula Daily News
Anderson Lake was open for fishing and other water recreation Saturday for the first time since it was closed June 10. The decision to reopen the lake, closed because of a dangerously high level of algae-produced toxins, was made after water samples
tested below the warning threshold for three consecutive weeks. “We’re going to reopen it as of tomorrow morning and keep it open until we get another bad sample,” Jon Crimmins, the state parks ranger who made the decision, said Friday. Crimmins expected the fishing to be good at the popular trout lake, which is in Anderson Lake
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Algae collect at the base of the boat launch ramp at Anderson Lake in Chimacum on Saturday.
State Park near Chimacum. “The fishing was doing well before the lake closed,” he said. Levels of both anatoxin-a, a powerful nerve toxin that can cause convulsions and death by respiratory paralysis, and microcystin, which can cause liver damage, were far below the warning threshold in the three weekly tests. Turn
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