Everett Daily Herald, September 01, 2015

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Lawsuit delays records release The former girlfriend of shooter Jaylen Fryberg would be harmed if text messages they exchanged were made public, her attorneys say as they ask for a court order blocking the release. By Scott North and Diana Hefley Herald Writers

EVERETT — The planned release of police reports about the fatal October shootings at Marysville Pilchuck High School was

delayed Monday by a last-minute lawsuit brought on behalf of the shooter’s former girlfriend. Attorneys for the girl, 15, maintain she would be irreparably harmed if the contents of text messages she exchanged with exboyfriend Jaylen Fryberg are made

public amid thousands of pages of police reports about the incident. More than 1,200 pages of police reports and other documents were scheduled to be released at 1 p.m. Monday, but that was put off for a day after a hearing before Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Richard Okrent. “We are talking about the life of a frightened and traumatized young girl,” Seattle attorney Thomas Ahearne said. He asked for a court order to block release of the records.

families want full >> Victims’ accounting of shootings,

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The text messages were reviewed by detectives trying to figure out why Jaylen, 15, shot five of his friends inside a school cafeteria before killing himself. The public has a legitimate interest in learning what police have determined, open government attorney Michele Earl-Hubbard told the judge in support of a records request by

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The Daily Herald. “Law enforcement thought those texts were relevant,” she said. Okrent scheduled a hearing Thursday afternoon to closely consider whether the texts and certain other identifying information should be redacted from police reports. Meanwhile, he said, the City of Everett is free to release other records that don’t See RECORDS, back page, this section

Dargey firm denies fraud

Saturday’s big blow was “the strongest summer storm in Northwest history,” weather expert Cliff Mass says; 23K still without power.

Path America vows to “aggressively” defend itself against allegations by a federal agency.

By Sharon Salyer and Kari Bray

By Dan Catchpole

Herald Writers

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The winds that brought 61 mph gusts to Everett on Saturday, leaving 175,000 people without power in Snohomish County and on Camano Island, are being called “the strongest summer storm in Northwest history” by University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor Cliff Mass. “We normally have wind storms during the winter,” he said. “There’s never been anything like this from May through September. This is what we’re talking about as a mid-latitude cyclone. The intensity of the storm was unprecedented.” The 175,000 power outages in Snohomish County and on Camano Island equalled the number of outages during the Inauguration Day storm of 1993, Snohomish County PUD spokesman Neil Neroutsos said. By late afternoon Monday, that number had dropped to 23,000 customers, but “these last remaining customers will be a real challenge,” he said. Bringing the remaining customers back online is time-intensive. “A pole replacement takes several hours and you have to cut through trees and brush to get access to the infrastructure that’s been

EVERETT — An Everett developer accused by federal authorities of defrauding foreign investors is keeping quiet. But one of Lobsang Dargey’s companies, Path America, issued a public statement Sunday saying that it did nothing wrong soliciting millions of dollars from Chinese investors to fund various real estate projects in Snohomish and King counties. The company also said it has retained a Seattle law firm to “aggressively” defend the company while also cooperating with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The federal agency filed a civil suit against the privately held company and Dargey, its CEO, on Aug. 24 in U.S. District Court in Seattle. The lawsuit alleges that Dargey misused $17.6 million of investor money to buy a new house in Bellevue and to bankroll two apartment buildings. The court also froze the company’s and Dargey’s assets. However, that has not stopped construction in downtown Everett at Potala Place and Farmer’s Market, an apartment building with ground floor retail space. Path America says it “had no

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iGhost Bears watching: The software that powers Android smartwatches can now integrate with iPhones, which previously only worked with the Apple Watch (Page A7). Soon after the announcement, top Apple executives reported an Dear Abby. . . . B3 Good Life . . . . B1

icy-cold chill in their offices, accompanied by mysterious harsh noises that made them think of when Steve Jobs would express his views on Google and the Android OS. Look out below: A dangerously unstable antenna on the Trump International Hotel forced Toronto police to close off

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several blocks of a busy street Monday (Business Briefly, Page A7). Structural engineers worked late into the night on devising a plan to secure the antenna by deploying one of the ball caps that Donald Trump uses to keep his comb over in place at campaign stops.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1715, King Louis XIV of France died four days before his 77th birthday. He had reigned for 72 years (Today in History, Page B4). The notion of a 4-year-old absolute monarch seems crazy — until you consider who’s running for president.

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Snohomish County PUD linemen Troy Benfield and Chris Sabella work to restore power to 50th Avenue W in Mountlake Terrace on Monday afternoon.

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