Issaquah police nab NFL player for domestic violence
February 5, 2013
Prosecutors could charge Leroy Hill for domestic violence-related crimes, after Issaquah police arrested the Seattle Seahawks linebacker for assaulting and imprisoning a woman.
Leroy Hill
Officers responded to Hill’s Talus home along Cougar Ridge Drive Northwest at about 4 p.m. Jan. 29. Hill’s girlfriend, a 26-year-old Issaquah woman, said he had assaulted her numerous times since about 10:30 a.m. She told police he stood on her head and chest, struck her with a bottle of alcohol and punched her as many as 20 times.
She said Hill, 30, blocked the doorway, did not allow her to leave the home and took her cellphone, court documents state. The woman escaped from the residence when he went to the bathroom.
Police arrest Seattle Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill for domestic violence
January 30, 2013
NEW — 10:15 a.m. Jan. 30, 2013
Issaquah police arrested Seattle Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill on Tuesday for domestic violence at Hill’s Talus home.
Officers responded after a 26-year-old Issaquah woman said her boyfriend, Hill, assaulted her several times and kept her inside his home against her will.
The woman told police Hill blocked the doorway, did not allow her to leave the home and took her cellphone. The woman escaped from the residence when Hill went to the bathroom.
Officers arrested Hill, 30, for domestic violence and assault related to the incident at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. The response to the home in the 60 block of Cougar Ridge Drive Northwest included police and Eastside Fire & Rescue units.
Homeowners detain burglar until police arrive
January 22, 2013
Homeowners detained a burglar Jan. 20 until police arrived and arrested the woman.
Issaquah police responded to a burglary in progress in the 100 block of Northwest Alder Place at about 9:45 p.m.
The homeowners discovered the burglar, a 30-year-old Seattle woman, inside the home and called 911. The burglar attempted to flee, and a resident detained the kicking, struggling woman until officers arrived.
Issaquah homeowners detain burglar until police arrive
January 21, 2013
NEW — 9:15 a.m. Jan. 21, 2013
Homeowners detained a burglar Sunday until police arrived and arrested the woman.
Issaquah police responded to a burglary in progress in the 100 block of Northwest Alder Place at about 9:45 p.m.
The homeowners discovered the burglar, a 30-year-old Seattle woman, inside the home and called 911. The burglar attempted to flee, and a resident detained the kicking, struggling woman until officers arrived.
Police discovered the woman held numerous items belonging to the homeowners and taken from inside the residence.
Officers booked the woman into the King County Jail on first-degree burglary charges.
Police arrest Issaquah man after high-speed chase
December 18, 2012
Deputies arrested a 27-year-old Issaquah man on Tiger Mountain just after noon Dec. 13, after the suspect led police on a high-speed chase and the King County Sheriff’s Office helicopter detected the man in a thick forest.
The incident started just before noon in the 19500 block of Maxwell Road Southeast, in unincorporated King County northeast of Maple Valley. Investigators said a deputy patrolling the neighborhood spotted a man attempting to break into a house.
The suspect noticed the officer, ran to a car and fled. The deputy stopped the vehicle moments later near Southeast 208th Street and Maxwell Road Southeast, about a half-mile northeast from the interchange of Southeast Renton-Maple Valley Road and state Route 18.
Issaquah police arrest suspect in Lovers robbery
September 26, 2012
NEW — 8 a.m. Sept. 26, 2012
Days after a masked man robbed Lovers at gunpoint, Issaquah police arrested a 42-year-old Issaquah man in the case Tuesday.
Investigators tracked leads in the case to the area near the adult novelty store, to a nearby apartment. Police then searched the suspect’s vehicle, and discovered a handgun and cash inside the car.
The suspect is in custody at the King County Jail for first-degree armed robbery.
Officers responded to the store in the 5600 block of East Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast at 11:28 a.m. Sept. 20. Police searched the area, but could not locate the thief.
Police said a masked man approached a store employee moments earlier, brandished a gun and demanded money.
State policy change dings county jails, but not Issaquah facility
September 11, 2012
Officials said a recent change in state policy means fewer inmates in King County-run jails — and $9.4 million less for county jails next year due to fewer bookings from the state Department of Corrections.
King County officials said the drop contributes to a projected $13 million shortfall next year in revenues to support operations at the King County Jail in Seattle and the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. The shortfall could lead officials to eliminate 40 or more positions in the proposed 2013 jail budget.
The state corrections agency contracts with the county to house thousands of felons released from prison who then violated their conditions of release. The so-called “DOC violators” go back to jail to await administrative hearings.
State parole policy changes deliver $9.4 million hit to county jails
September 3, 2012
NEW — 6 a.m. Sept. 3, 2012
Recent changes in state policy mean fewer inmates in King County jails — and $9.4 million less for local jails year due to fewer bookings from the state Department of Corrections.
King County officials said the $9.4 million drop contributes to a projected $13 million shortfall next year in revenues to support operations at the King County Jail in Seattle and the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. The shortfall could lead officials to eliminate 40 or more positions in the proposed 2013 jails budget.
The state corrections agency contracts with the county to house thousands of felons released from prison, and then violated their conditions of release. The so-called “DOC violators” go back to jail to await administrative hearings. Since 2008, King County booked, on average, 6,844 inmates per year, and held about 330 per day.
Man with children in vehicle arrested under revised DUI law
August 28, 2012
The state patrol arrested a 32-year-old Issaquah man under the state’s revised driving under the influence law Aug. 19 — 18 days after the beefed-up law took effect.
The arrest marked the initial known use of revised rules for mandatory blood draws on felony DUI arrests in King County. The driver, Wiyual Rut, also faces enhanced penalties for having three children younger than 3 in the vehicle during the traffic stop.
Prosecutors later charged Rut with felony DUI, with notice of three child enhancements. The enhancement adds 12 months to the felony DUI sentence for each child.
Investigators said a Washington State Patrol trooper stopped a black Nissan Pathfinder on eastbound Interstate 90 for lane travel violations just before midnight.
Issaquah burglary offers lesson in vigilance
August 14, 2012
The call from the Issaquah Police Department interrupted dinner at Pogacha for Fred and Mardi Nystrom, longtime residents in the Sycamore neighborhood south of downtown.
The officer on the line asked if the Nystroms expected any family members to leave their home through a bedroom window.
“I told him, ‘Not our family, man, we wouldn’t fit through that window,’” Fred Nystrom recalled Aug. 13.
They rushed home July 6 to discover their home had been burglarized. The thief shimmied into the home through a small bedroom window left open in the July heat, and stole jewelry, computers and family heirlooms.
“Most of what she stole from me were memories,” Fred Nystrom said.
Police later identified the suspect as Jackie Jean Johnston, 45, a SeaTac resident with a long rap sheet.
