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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012 | Vol. 112, No. 27 | WWW.BAINBRIDGEREVIEW.COM | 75¢
DIVER GOES MISSING OFF SOUTH BEACH
Man charged with rape in wake of two sexual assaults BY RICHARD D. OXLEY Bainbridge Island Review
Brian Kelly / Bainbridge Island Review
Search-and-rescue crews, aided by the Leschi, the Seattle Fire Department’s fire boat, continue looking for a missing diver in Rich Passage earlier this week.
Missing diver presumed dead BY BRIAN KELLY Bainbridge Island Review
The search for a missing diver off Bainbridge Island ceased as a rescue operation and became a recovery mission on Tuesday. Puyallup resident David D. Scheinost, 24, has been identified as the diver and is presumed dead after he went missing while diving in the waters southwest of Restoration Point on Bainbridge Island, Monday afternoon. Scheinost was a geoduck compliance diver with the Department of
Natural Resource’s Aquatic Resources Division. Officials said he was hired on Feb. 1 and graduated in 2010 from the Divers Institute of Technology in Seattle. SEE DIVER, A9
Personnel from the Bainbridge Island Fire Department and Washington State Patrol watch from a command center on South Beach as the search for a missing diver continued Tuesday. Brian Kelly / Bainbridge Island Review
The man accused of trying to rape a Bainbridge Island woman as she walked home from Safeway Sunday was arraigned in court Tuesday on a felony charge of thirddegree rape. Jaime Silva-Arroyo, 26, was arrested Monday. Police said he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman July 22 but broke off the attack after the woman fought back. He faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and/or a $50,000 fine. The young woman told police that the man she later identified as Silva-Arroyo followed her as she walked into the Safeway on High School Road around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 22. The woman told police that she had seen the man in the past, but she did not know him. She noticed the man behind her and walked to the Rite Aid in the same shopping center, where he continued following the woman. She left the store and started on her way home as the man continued to follow her. The young woman told police that the man grabbed her arm as she was walking near Ihland Way and Madison Avenue and said something to her in Spanish that she could’t understand. She noted that he held a small wallet in his hand as he spoke to her. She then broke away and crossed Madison Avenue and onto a gravel trail. The woman said the man pushed her, and she turned around hit him. He then knocked her to the ground, jumped on top of her, grabbed her neck, and tried to remove her pants. As the man tried to hold the woman down, two of his fingers went into the woman’s mouth, and she bit him. The assailant then ran away, leaving behind a baseball cap as he fled. The woman — who received scrapes, bruises and other injuries from the attack — then went SEE RAPE, A34