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Union couple charged in baby assault
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty, com
A Union couple pleaded not guilty
Tuesday to charges they beat and
starved their 2-m0nth-01d child.
Chad Allen Lester Tibbits, 21,
and Katarina M. Shivers, 20, were
arrested Monday evening on suspi-
cion of assault of a child in the first
degree and criminal mistreatment
in the first degree.
Both made their first appear-
ances in Mason County Superior
Court on Tuesday afternoon, where
they were formally charged, entered
their pleas and were each granted
$75,000 bail.
While neither has any violent
criminal history, Mason County
Prosecutor Mike Dorcy cited the
"devastating injuries" to the child
when asking for bail.
According to court documents,
the two defendants are charged
with intentionally committing as-
sault against the child and crimi-
nally mistreating the child, or
"withholding any of the basic neces-
sities of life," between Feb. 22 and
April 28.
The maximum penalty for assault
in the first degree against a child is
life in prison.
According to probable cause
documents prepared by the Mason
County Sheriffs Office, occupants
of the home where Shivers and Tib-
bits lived called 911 at 11:50 p.m. on
April 28 reported that a baby was
"barely breathing."
Medic units responded and called
law enforcement when they found
signs of abuse.
The 66-day-old baby was taken
first to Mason General Hospital,
then airlifted to Harborview Medi-
cal Center with head trauma and a
fractured skull, fractured ribs, legs,
bruising, dehydration, one collapsed
lung and one partially collapsed
lung, and other injuries and chronic
conditions.
Some of the injuries showed in-
juries of healing, according to court
documents.
The child, who is also under-
weight due to "chronic nutritional
neglect," according to the probable
cause report, is now recovering at
Seattle Children's Hospital, Dorcy
said.
According to court documents,
Tibbits and Shivers told detectives
that the baby caused many of her
own injuries.
Doctors at Harborview Medical
Center concluded that the parent's
explanations for the baby's injuries
were "unreasonable."
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Liquor board releases
pot lottery results
Mason County list
has 12 applicants
By NATALIE JOHNSON
natalie@masoncounty, com
Retail sellers of Cannabis are one
step closer to opening shop in Mason
County.
Eleven Mason County and one
Shelton applicant were ranked, in
order, to receive retail-sales license
from the Washington state Liquor
Control Board.
The board posted results Friday of
the rank of applicants for licenses to
operate retail stores selling marijua-
na products.
However, the applicants at the top
of the lottery-generated list will not
automatically receive licenses.
The Liquor Control Board will use
the lists to continue its licensing pro-
cess.
"If an applicant is within the maxi-
mum allotted number of stores allot-
ted for that jurisdiction but fails to
pass the licensing process, the (Liquor
Control Board) will withdraw the ap-
plication and move to the next license
application on the list," according to
a statement from the Liquor Control
Board.
Applicants will need to meet all
state and local requirements for re-
tail Cannabis sellers before they re-
ceive licenses.
Mason County is allowed five retail
locations.
Mason County had 12 retail license
applicants. The only one in Shelton
city limits, Tidehaven Recreation,
which listed its location in the 100
block of Third Street, was not in-
cluded in the overall Mason County
lottery and will be considered sepa-
rately.
The 11 applicants in rural Mason
County include the following, in or-
der from first to last in the rankings:
The Root Cellar, in the 23000 block
of state Route 3 in Belfir; EZ Daze,
for two locations in Allyn; Belfair
Marijuana Depot, in the 25000 block
of Northeast stateRoute 3 in Belfair;
Bomar Holdings in the 23000 block
of Northeast state Route 3 in Belfair;
CBD Associates, in the 900 block of
East Johns Prairie Road; Green Lady,
in the 11000 block of North U.S.
Highway 101; Green House, in the
24000 block of Northeast state Route
3 in Belfair; OLERX, in the 100 block
of Northeast state Route 300; Fanta-
sy Flowers, in the 6600 block of West
Shelton Matlock Road and Washing-
ton Cannabis Outlet on Southeast
Lynch Road.
The lottery took place from April
21-25 and was conducted by the So-
cial and Economic Sciences Research
Center at Washington State Univer-
sity and the Kraght-Snell account-
ing firm of Seattle, which handles
accounting for the Washington State
Lottery.
A Liquor Control Board spokesman
says stores will start opening in July.
As of April 30, the agency has is-
sued 25 producer and processor li-
censes.
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