Auburn Reporter, June 08, 2012

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Judge: City needs to maintain control of court By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

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At a recent meeting of Auburn leaders and the King County District Court, City officials estimated that the $3.8 million the City paid into the misdemeanant SCORE jail

in Des Moines in 2010 could swell to $7.1 million by 2013. Determined to avoid an increase like that, City leaders have been eyeballing costcutting measures. So far, so good, says Auburn Municipal Court Judge Pat

Burns. What puzzles the judge, however, is why City leaders have trained their eyeballs on Auburn’s Municipal Court. Why, Burns asks, are Auburn’s leaders talking about [ more COURT page 4 ]

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Teen’s murder jolts community Pacific police arrest man for stabbing death of Pacific boy By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

The recent breakup between a 19-year-old man and his 16-yearold girlfriend, police say, appears to be what alledgedly pushed the man to kill his girlfriend’s younger brother last week in Pacific. Brandon Suhr, an Algona resident, allegedly stabbed to death 13-year-old Walter Denesha, 13, a seventh-grader at Mount Baker

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Middle School, at the family’s apartment in the Cobble Court complex at 600 Ellingson Road on June 1. Suhr is in custody at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent on $1 million bail on suspicion of first-degree murder. He also is looking at first-degree

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kidnapping and residential burglary charges for allegedly forcing the teen girl to leave the apartment with him against her will and for stealing three Japanese swords from the apartment Denesha shared with his sister and mother. According to probable cause documents obtained from the King County Prosecutor’s office, Suhr got into the apartment by climbing to a second-floor balcony and breaking a window screen. Once inside, Suhr later confessed to police, he grabbed a knife and stabbed Denesha several times. The King County Medical Examiner’s [ more HOMICIDE page 2 ]

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Pacific police chief’s dismissal strains council-mayor relationship By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Cy Sun’s recent sacking of John Calkins as Pacific’s chief of police has councilmembers questioning the mayor’s communications with them. “Our city has totally unraveled. I’ve never seen a situation like this before,” said Councilman Clint Steiger, who has served on the council for 15 years offand-on. “Our attorney has never seen anything like this

before. Our insurance company has never seen anything like this. It’s just completely unraveled.” Calkins The controversy centers on Sun’s contacting of KOMONews.com to inform the station of his decision to fire Calkins before he even clued in members of the [ more PACIFIC page 4 ]

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Authorities arrested the murder suspect, 19-year-old Brandon Suhr, after a brief standoff at a home in the 200 block of 2nd Avenue North in Algona last Friday. shawn skager, Auburn Reporter

Sharilee Strand stands in front of a mighty rhododendron in the backyard of her Auburn home. The massive, full-bloom rhododendron has grown to about 20 feet tall, said Corliss Strand, Sharilee’s husband, who guessed it was planted as far back as 1955, when his home was built. The Strands moved into the home in 1978.


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