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June 16, 2011

Port Angeles-Sequim-West End

Escaped inmate captured How he got away under investigation By Tom Callis

Peninsula Daily News

FORKS — An escaped Olympic Corrections Center inmate who narrowly avoided capture at the Hoh River Resort was returned to custody Wednesday. James Edward Russell, 39, was arrested at 8 a.m. in the woods near the resort about five hours after he was chased and tackled by an off-duty OCC guard

staying at one of its cabins. Russell escaped from the minimal-security prison 25 miles south of Forks sometime before 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, when a head count came up with him missing, said Deputy Prisons Director Earl Wright. How he escaped remains unclear and under investigation, Wright said. From the prison, Russell found

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A sign near Milepost 176 at the junction of U.S. Highway 101 and the Hoh-Clearwater Mainline warns drivers of an escapee. his way to the resort 14 miles away, apparently on foot, said Department of Corrections spokeswoman Rowlanda Cawthon. Resort owner Sally Capelle said Russell, who was still wearing his prison uniform, knocked on the door of a cabin occupied by the guard and asked to use the phone. “The guy took off, and he [the

guard] tackled him down,” she Wright said Corrections officers arrested Russell near the said. resort after responding to a report of a suspicious person in the area. Lost his shirt Capelle described the location Capelle said Russell was able as being in “dense brush” about a to get away but lost his shirt in mile from her cabins. the process. Cawthon said authorities Cawthon confirmed that an knew Russell was at the resort off-duty guard staying at the before he was chased by the offresort chased and tackled the duty guard. inmate but didn’t have more Turn to Escape/A6 details.

Injured duckling returns home Was shot with 5-inch metal blow dart Peninsula Daily News

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A duckling, right, that has recovered from its injuries after being shot with a blow dart swims toward its mother, center, and its larger sibling after it was returned to a pond in Lincoln Park in Port Angeles, the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center said.

PORT ANGELES — A duckling rescued after it was shot with a 5-inch metal blow dart has been released back to a Lincoln Park pond. Volunteers with the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center in Sequim released the healed ducking Monday evening, said Matthew Randazzo, center spokesman. “This is an extremely happy ending,” Randazzo said. “The duckling immediately identified its family and, within

two minutes, was swimming with its mother and playing with its larger sibling.” The duckling was shot in late May and rescued by Port Angeles resident Brenda Borte on June 5. The blow dart was removed from the duckling’s chest during surgery conducted by Dr. Jennifer Tavares at Greywolf Veterinary Hospital on June 8. The bird was released after a week of rehabilitation care at the Northwest Raptor & Wildlife Center conducted by Director Jaye Moore. The center is seeking tips on the person who shot the duck. Tips can be emailed to Matthew@NWRaptorCenter.com. Videos of the duckling’s release and reunion with its siblings can be seen at http:// tinyurl.com/3gfexxe and http:// tinyurl.com/3deo5ap.

Clallam OKs building of 14 Police target transient jewelry buyers lots at Discovery Trail Farm metal, PA business asked to cease its operation Five short of what developer wants By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners have given the go-ahead to a Dungeness Valley cluster developer to build 14 lots at Discovery Trail Farm. That’s five lots short of the 19 that David LeRoux wants to build on 16 acres of his 70-acre farm near Sequim. LeRoux wants to cluster a development in the center of the farm and preserve the remaining 54 acres as working farmland for future generations. “The cluster ordinance prom-

ised me 19, so unfortunately, this project is not finished,” LeRoux said Wednesday. “I have to go back at a later date for the other five I’m entitled to.” LeRoux has spent the past six years trying to demonstrate to the state Department of Ecology that the cluster approach is a viable way of preserving farmland and water. Commissioners Steve Tharinger, Mike Doherty and Mike Chapman approved the 14-acre plat by a unanimous vote Tuesday. The farm is on an agricultural retention development south of Old Olympic Highway and east of Kitchen-Dick Road. The cluster is the first of its kind on the North Olympic Peninsula.

LeRoux and his business partner, Walter Johnson, initially purchased 13 five-acre lots. Rather than seeing a house go up on each lot, LeRoux and Johnson wanted to preserve open space and a working farm. But Ecology considers Discovery Trail Farm one development, with a total water right of 5,000 gallons per day. Once developed, each lot would have access to about 325 gallons per day. LeRoux would have had access to 65,000 gallons if he didn’t pursue the cluster and kept the five-acre parcels. “What Ecology needs to do is develop a plan friendly to a project that saves water,” LeRoux said. Turn

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By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles police said they are cracking down on transient businesses that buy precious metals and secondhand jewelry from anonymous sellers. Precious Gems and Metals of Wabash, Ind., which was operating out of the Port Angeles Red Lion Hotel, was asked to stop operating Tuesday when a plainclothes officer purchased an item without being asked for identification. “I did not make a custodial arrest, but I collected all their information,” said Port Angeles Police Downtown Resource Offi-

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cer John Nutter. “I’m going to be referring them for charges with the city prosecuting attorney.” Legitimate pawn shops require identification from people who sell precious metals and coins, police said. That way, a thief is running the risk of getting caught if victims of thefts see their property on display. “That happens fairly often,” Nutter said. “I arrest people for pawning stolen property.” Police are asking the public to be aware of transient pawn brokers who don’t care who the seller is.

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