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Police Strike Team targets burglaries BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Officer Molly Ingram of the Marysville Police Strike Team inspects an antique boat motor that’s among the pieces of stolen property that the anti-burglary team has recovered since its formation nearly two months ago.
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MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Police Strike Team was formed on May 8 as part of a planned sixweek emphasis on burglary within the city, which had gone above the five-year averages for recent months. Nearly two months later, the Strike Team is a few weeks past its original end date, but with burglary numbers plunging well below the five-year averages for the month of June, the Marysville Police Department is doing what it can to keep the program going. “We’ve made 85 burglaryrelated arrests since the Strike Team was started,” Marysville Police Lt. Darin Rasmussen said. “Among the stolen property we’ve
recovered has been five handguns, four cars, a computer, 100 ounces of silver, $20,000 worth of jewelry that has a hold on it, and an antique boat motor from the 1930s.” Rasmussen acknowledged that the formation of the Strike Team was prompted by a dramatic spike in burglaries in the first quarter of 2012, which inspired Marysville Police Chief Rick Smith to make it a priority. Members of the existing Pro-Act Team were incorporated, as were three patrol officers and the K-9 unit, the latter as needed, but Rasmussen characterized the burglary emphasis as a group effort that, in a number of different ways, encompasses the entire department. SEE STRIKE , PAGE 2
Naval Station Everett fetes ‘Freedom Fest’ BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Clark explains the inner workings of the computer-guided 5-inch 62-caliber gun near the forecastle of the USS Shoup on June 30.
EVERETT — While the weather on Saturday, June 30, made much of Naval Station Everett’s annual “Freedom Festival” a soggy affair, the day’s ship tours still filled up their allotments of 40 visitors for each of the larger ships every half hour, and 30 visitors for each of the smaller ships every half hour, drawing more than 1,500 visitors to the decks of the four ships in port, in spite of the rain and the absence of the USS Nimitz depressing those attendance numbers relative to the event’s sunnier years, when its carrier has been in port. Families from the local area and throughout the region made the USS Shoup the most popular destination of
the four ships offering tours that day, as crew members explained aspects of day-to-day operations on board ship with which many civilians were unfamiliar. Petty Officer 3rd Class Lavahita King explained the importance of not wearing rings, wristwatches or other jewelry while raising and lowering the ready boats that are used to recover torpedoes and men overboard. “If those items get caught in the line, they’ll rip your skin off,” King said. “That’d be a bad day for everyone.” Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin Clark explained the inner workings of the computer-guided 5-inch 62-caliber gun near the forecastle of the ship, which fires 20 rounds a minute at a distance of 13 miles. SEE FREEDOM, PAGE 2
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