Everett Daily Herald, October 28, 2015

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Few glitches with dispatch system Plagued by delays and disputes, new emergency software debuted Tuesday with only minor glitches for SNOPAC and SNOCOM personnel. By Rikki King

backup system in case of catastrophic failure. Mill Creek Police Chief Bob Crannell and Everett Fire Chief Murray Gordon were among the many monitoring live updates on the installation from a command post in Everett. Roughly $6.8 million of public money has been spent on the project. “The whole point of all of this

Snohomish County went live with new software for police, firefighters, 911 centers and jail staff. The county’s emergency dispatchers had paper and pens handy Tuesday, an old-school

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EVERETT — So far, it’s working, and that’s a big relief. Before dawn Tuesday,

is for everyone in Snohomish County, if you call 911, nothing is different today from yesterday,” sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said. Police and fire departments plugged into the new system, called New World, about 4 a.m. By 6:40 a.m., dispatchers had used the system to send responders to unincorporated Lynnwood,

where a woman in labor needed help. Now, “we’re plus one” on New World, joked Rich McQuade, operations coordinator at SNOPAC, the emergency dispatch center based in Everett. He’s been working on the project See DISPATCH, back page, this section

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Testimony in trial of ex-cop continues Carlos Alberto Martinez, 61, faces felony charges regarding a relationship he developed with a now 26-year-old woman he met when she was 10. By Scott North Herald Writer

EVERETT — A young woman repeatedly broke into tears Tuesday as she offered often inconsistent testimony about how she wound up regularly engaging in sex with a former Monroe police sergeant she met while a 10-year-old student in his drug-abuse resistance class. Now 26, it was her third day telling a Snohomish County jury about her connection to Carlos Alberto Martinez. Martinez, 61, earned her trust, encouraged her affection and then began to engage her in sexual conduct in her early teens, she testified. When that began in 2004, she was working as a babysitter for Martinez’s elementary school-aged children. But under close questioning from Martinez’s lawyer, Everett defense attorney Mark Mestel, the woman also acknowledged she told investigators in two states differing accounts about exactly when and how sexual activity occurred with Martinez. She also admitted sending Martinez emails from a spoof account where she attempted to pass herself off as a man and falsely claiming to have lived for a time in California under the care of celebrity addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. At one point Tuesday, Mestel asked the woman to reconcile inconsistencies in her testimony. Was she 15 or 18 when she and Martinez engaged in sex in his barn, with him photographing

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Kate Wirth walks to Jefferson Elementary School on Tuesday with her son, Kyle, 7, and daughter, Morgan, 10, on new sidewalks completed this summer as part of Snohomish County’s Safe Kids, Improved Pathways program. For Wirth’s family, the new sidewalks mean they no longer have to walk in the street with Morgan’s wheelchair to get to school. Top, county construction crews tacked a little homage to Morgan on a telephone pole near the school.

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EVERETT — For Kate Wirth, walking her two youngest children to Jefferson Elementary School used to require a little momentum and a lot of courage. A steep street without

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sidewalks loomed just around the corner from their house in the Eastmont neighborhood of unincorporated south Everett. Wirth would gather speed to push daughter Morgan’s wheelchair up the hill, as son Kyle scampered alongside them. The family often moved to a rutted, grassy shoulder to wait out

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passing cars. Sometimes, they had no choice but to stay in the street. “Going up this hill right here was so dangerous for us,” Wirth said. “It was hard for us to get out of the road because that terrain was so rough.” The journey has been much

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easier since classes started back up in September. Along with the rest of the community, Wirth, her fourth-grade daughter and second-grade son now enjoy new sidewalks on their fourblock trek to school. See SIDEWALKS, back page, this section

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