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Keeping close tabs on sex offenders
Jason Ankerfelt talks at the memorial about the impact his wife, Stacy, had on him and everyone who knew her. SHAWN SKAGER,
Police detective’s efforts, grant help fuel program BY TRACEY COMPTON tcompton@rentonreporter.com
One man and a more than $68,000 grant help keep track of the 324 registered sex offenders living
in Kent. Kent Police detective Doug Garrett has been organizing contact teams and going into the field himself for 15 years to manage the number of sex offenders who reside in the city. “It’s interesting,” he said. “Just like other police work you get something new everyday – people mov-
ing in and out, different contacts.” His job would not be possible without the help of a yearly grant that is funded by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. The King County Sheriff ’s Office has been administering the grant since 2010. [ more OFFENDERS page 5 ]
Auburn Reporter
A PRECIOUS LIFE, OVER TOO SOON Family, friends recall spirited woman, teacher BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
They came to remember and celebrate the life of Stacy Ankerfelt. They came by the hundreds, packing the 400-seat Auburn Riverside Theater beyond capacity on a sunny Saturday afternoon. They came to remember the 28-year-old Auburn Riverside High School graduate as a friend who had a knack for making everyone in her life feel special. They came to celebrate the impact she had as a fifthgrade teacher at Scenic Hill
Elementary School in the Kent School District. And they came to remember her as a sister, a wife, a daughter, a friend. “Obviously, with this hall this full, it’s a testament to how great of a gal Stacy was,” her husband, Jason Ankerfelt, said at last Saturday’s memorial. “And how she’ll continue to be wonderful through us.” On July 19, Ankerfelt was struck by a car driven by Samuel Cruz. The man, allegedly under the influence of a prescription drug, hit Ankerfelt as she stood alongside her car outside her Auburn home. Ankerfelt was in intensive care at Harborview Medical [ more ANKERFELT page 2 ]
Trail almost clear of sandbags REPORTER STAFF
Crews expect to remove the final giant sandbags this week from along the Green River levees in Kent. AGR Contracting, Inc. had removed more than 17,000 of the nearly 20,000 sandbags through Sept. 7, according to [ more REMOVAL page 4 ]
Show of pride Mayor Suzette Cooke introduces her mom, Virginia Allen, left, to Wade “Mama Moan Alot” Schwartz during the inaugural Kent Pride 2012 rally at Burlington Green Park last Sunday. More than a hundred people came out to support the event and generate momentum for Referendum 74, the same-sex-marriage measure on Washington’s Nov. 6 election ballot. CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter
Medical marijuana store closes because of DEA letter BY STEVE HUNTER shunter@kentreporter.com
A letter from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration threatening to shut down a Kent medical marijuana store because it’s too near a school persuaded owner Charles Lambert to close the business.
Bill Pace’s Fruit & Produce 425-467-0501 | 2380 Bellevue Way SE, Bellevue Monday - Sunday 9 AM to 7 PM
Evergreen Association of Collective Gardens closed its store along Central Avenue North in late August, just a few days after Lambert received one of the DEA letters sent Aug. 23 to nearly two dozen marijuana storefronts in Western Washington near schools or other prohibited areas.
The letters informed the owner/operators that such enterprises operating as “dispensaries” within 1,000 feet of a school, playground or other prohibited area could result in the seizure and forfeiture of assets, as well as criminal prosecution, according to a Department [ more STORE page 5 ]
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