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THEIR EYES on a house used burn Saturday, firefighter await their turn inside while (center) get ready to enter the Shelton man con- of participating in summer in which he 20-year-old took $15 teenager and tried from another teen has first "strike." Ray Mullen, of Street was sentenced 22 in Mason County to 14 months for second degree and sentence of 10]/2 house. At the bottom, a perspiring re- cruit guzzles from a water bottle as he emerges from the heat and smoke. Practice burn passes muster: 'Twas no ire over this fire By JEFF GREEN Where there's fire there's smoke, and last Saturday's practice burn at an abandoned house in downtown Shelton raised plenty of the latter. But despite the concerns of some residents, the training exercise did not violate the burn ban issued on Sunday by clean-air agencies around the state as a temperature inversion dropped air quality. There were no burn restrictions on Saturday, noted Assistant Shel- ton Fire Chief Dave Salzer, who added the Shelton Fire Department had all its permits in order for the practice burn at the house near Cedar and Front streets, including permits fom Olympic Region Clean Air Agency tbr the training fire and City of Shelton for demolition of the house. TWENTY-EIGHT recruits from the current Mason County Fire Recruit Academy as well as other volunteers from area departments took part in the live-fire training ex- ercise. "I think it went well," Salzer said. Teams of three or four trainees went into the smoke-filled house for several minutes, then were rotated out and to a rehabilitation station beside an aid car. There their blood pressure was checked and they were given water to drink and allowed tO cool off before medics cleared them to return to the house for additional training exercises. One firefighter, not a trainee, suffered a minor wound from a nail, but other than that, nobody was in- jured, Salzer said. A powerline north of the house heated, shorted and broke. Salzer said electrical service to the house had been shut off prior to Saturday, but the powerline, which ran east from Front Street to the railroad tracks, had not been de-energized. SALZER SAID the line fell on the ground and sparked. It provided firefighters an excellent, if inadver- tent, training opportunity, since that sort of thing happens often during real fires. PUD 3 workers cut the line at the closest power pole. Pettit Oil Company let firefight- ers use a building on Front Street for food service and restroom ac- commodations. In addition, all food and beverages were prepared and delivered by Angels 4, a rehabilita- tion unit from Fire District 4, which provides meals and beverages to firefighters at fires. (Continued from page 28.) According to court documents, Duerst and two other men were ar- rested on October 18 after attempt- ing to break into a building at 409 East Harvard to steal the copper wiring from the roof of the old ITT Rayonier Building. Officers report- ed finding a number of tools on the roof of the building. Large copper wire running along the roof had been cut out of its conduit and was being yarded out of the remaining conduit by a come-along, a hand-op- erated winch-like device. One of Duerst's codefendants, Douglas William Krziske, 33, of 4819 Indian Summer Drive SE, Olympia, is scheduled ibr trial this month. An arrest warrant has been issue for the other codefendant, Clifford Scott Bull, 47, also of 5308 81st Avenue SW, Olympia. With an offender score of four, the standard sentencing range for Duerst is from 12 to 16 months, Judge Sheldon explained. She scheduled sentencing for Wednes- day, January 31. * Bryan Phillip Redmond, 23, of 132 Decatur Street, Olympia, pled guilty to assault in the third degree. In exchange for his plea, the state agreed to dismiss a charge of second-degree robbery. His codefendant, Joseph William Hollowell, 27, of 565 East Mik- kelsen Road, Shelton, is scheduled for trial this month on charges of robbery in the second degree and assault in the third degree. The men were arrested around 5:30 p.m. on November 27 by Ser- geant Jeff Rhoades of the Shelton Police Department who said he was responding to a report of a fight in progress at First and Cota streets. Rhoades said he contacted Ivan Ro- driguez, who was bleeding from his face and had a swollen right eye. Rodriguez said Hollowell and Red- mond had been at his house and he gave them food and alcohol. He said he left with his girlfriend and when they returned Hollowell and Red- mond were gone and so were the food and alcohol. Rodriguez told Rhoades he found the men at the Fir Cone Tavern. Reports on file with the court clerk indicate that when Rodriguez con- fronted them outside the tavern about taking his food and alcohol, Hollowell struck him in the face and he said he fell to the ground and was punched, elbowed and kicked by both men. Rhoades said gets strike for robbing teen months for attempted robbery in the second degree. The second-de- gree robbery conviction constitutes a "strike" under the state's persis- tent offender sentencing law. "If you obtain three 'strikes' the only sentence a judge can impose is life in prison without the pos- sibility of parole. You're a third of the way there," Judge James Saw- yer told Mullen. Sawyer presided at a trial in which Mullen was convicted by a jury of participating in the robbery of two Shelton teenagers which netted a baseball cap and $15 for him and his codefendant, Brian Clayton Harding, 20, of 1619 Sum- mit, Shelton. Harding is serving 13 months in prison after testify- ing at Mullen's trial and pleading guilty last fall to second-degree robbery and attempted second-de- gree robbery. Mullen and Harding were un- der the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident shortly before midnight on August 15, according to testimony at the trial. Sawyer made a finding that the crime was alcohol-related. Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz recommended concurrent sentences at the high end of the ranges. Mullen had nothing to say at the sentencing. The judge said Mullen would be in community custody for 18 to 36 months after his release from prison. Sawyer ordered the man to have a drug and alcohol evalua- tion and to follow all recommend- ed treatment. He also said MuD len is to have no contact with the victims, Joshua Kilts and Michael Cook, for 10 years. Sawyer also imposed legal financial obliga- tions of $500 to the crime victims' compensation fund, $450 in attor- ney-fee recoupment for the county, $75 in restitution and $1,793.86 in court costs. Thursday, February 1,2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 29 when he arrived, citizens had sepa- rated the men and he saw Redmond and Hollowell attempting to steal Rodriguez's coat. With an offender score of three the standard sentencing range for Redmond is from nine to 12 months followed by 12 months of commu- nity supervision, Judge Sheldon ex- plained. She scheduled sentencing for February 26. 00Irrested but not charged Two men who appeared for ar- raignment in Mason County Supe rior Court on Monday, January 29, were told no charges had been filed against them. John Arthur Marshall-Dhuet, 21, of 1520 Old Belfair Highway, Belfair, who was arrested in an in- vestigation of possession of meth- amphetamine, possession of less than 40 grams of marijuana and use of drug paraphernalia. Sterling John Arbuckle, 21, of 171 North Skok Flats Road, Shel- ton, who was arrested in an inves- tigation of residential burglary and theft in the first degree. The two men were released from all conditions imposed on them by the court. No charges were filed in Mason County Superior Court against a 31- year-old man arrested in a domestic- violence incident. Merle Thomas Lindsay Jr., of 205 Turner Avenue, Shelton, appeared for arraignment on Monday, January 29, but Judge James Sawyer released him from all conditions imposed by the court. 00lrrest warrants Warrants were issued for the following people who failed to ap- pear for proceedings January 29 in Mason County Superior Court: Da, vid Wayne Cox, $6,905.90; Har, old Junior Jones, $2,500; Justin D. Christensen, $2,500; Jeremy Farrel Culver, $5,000; Blake Richard Fuller, $7,595.32; Ed, win Eugene Brown, $2,840.18; Inocencio Garcia Romero, $2,379.18; and Cory Alan Stee- hler, $3,597.03. Defendants plead guilty THEIR EYES on a house used burn Saturday, firefighter await their turn inside while (center) get ready to enter the Shelton man con- of participating in summer in which he 20-year-old took $15 teenager and tried from another teen has first "strike." Ray Mullen, of Street was sentenced 22 in Mason County to 14 months for second degree and sentence of 10]/2 house. At the bottom, a perspiring re- cruit guzzles from a water bottle as he emerges from the heat and smoke. Practice burn passes muster: 'Twas no ire over this fire By JEFF GREEN Where there's fire there's smoke, and last Saturday's practice burn at an abandoned house in downtown Shelton raised plenty of the latter. But despite the concerns of some residents, the training exercise did not violate the burn ban issued on Sunday by clean-air agencies around the state as a temperature inversion dropped air quality. There were no burn restrictions on Saturday, noted Assistant Shel- ton Fire Chief Dave Salzer, who added the Shelton Fire Department had all its permits in order for the practice burn at the house near Cedar and Front streets, including permits fom Olympic Region Clean Air Agency tbr the training fire and City of Shelton for demolition of the house. TWENTY-EIGHT recruits from the current Mason County Fire Recruit Academy as well as other volunteers from area departments took part in the live-fire training ex- ercise. "I think it went well," Salzer said. Teams of three or four trainees went into the smoke-filled house for several minutes, then were rotated out and to a rehabilitation station beside an aid car. There their blood pressure was checked and they were given water to drink and allowed tO cool off before medics cleared them to return to the house for additional training exercises. One firefighter, not a trainee, suffered a minor wound from a nail, but other than that, nobody was in- jured, Salzer said. A powerline north of the house heated, shorted and broke. Salzer said electrical service to the house had been shut off prior to Saturday, but the powerline, which ran east from Front Street to the railroad tracks, had not been de-energized. SALZER SAID the line fell on the ground and sparked. It provided firefighters an excellent, if inadver- tent, training opportunity, since that sort of thing happens often during real fires. PUD 3 workers cut the line at the closest power pole. Pettit Oil Company let firefight- ers use a building on Front Street for food service and restroom ac- commodations. In addition, all food and beverages were prepared and delivered by Angels 4, a rehabilita- tion unit from Fire District 4, which provides meals and beverages to firefighters at fires. (Continued from page 28.) According to court documents, Duerst and two other men were ar- rested on October 18 after attempt- ing to break into a building at 409 East Harvard to steal the copper wiring from the roof of the old ITT Rayonier Building. Officers report- ed finding a number of tools on the roof of the building. Large copper wire running along the roof had been cut out of its conduit and was being yarded out of the remaining conduit by a come-along, a hand-op- erated winch-like device. One of Duerst's codefendants, Douglas William Krziske, 33, of 4819 Indian Summer Drive SE, Olympia, is scheduled ibr trial this month. An arrest warrant has been issue for the other codefendant, Clifford Scott Bull, 47, also of 5308 81st Avenue SW, Olympia. With an offender score of four, the standard sentencing range for Duerst is from 12 to 16 months, Judge Sheldon explained. She scheduled sentencing for Wednes- day, January 31. * Bryan Phillip Redmond, 23, of 132 Decatur Street, Olympia, pled guilty to assault in the third degree. In exchange for his plea, the state agreed to dismiss a charge of second-degree robbery. His codefendant, Joseph William Hollowell, 27, of 565 East Mik- kelsen Road, Shelton, is scheduled for trial this month on charges of robbery in the second degree and assault in the third degree. The men were arrested around 5:30 p.m. on November 27 by Ser- geant Jeff Rhoades of the Shelton Police Department who said he was responding to a report of a fight in progress at First and Cota streets. Rhoades said he contacted Ivan Ro- driguez, who was bleeding from his face and had a swollen right eye. Rodriguez said Hollowell and Red- mond had been at his house and he gave them food and alcohol. He said he left with his girlfriend and when they returned Hollowell and Red- mond were gone and so were the food and alcohol. Rodriguez told Rhoades he found the men at the Fir Cone Tavern. Reports on file with the court clerk indicate that when Rodriguez con- fronted them outside the tavern about taking his food and alcohol, Hollowell struck him in the face and he said he fell to the ground and was punched, elbowed and kicked by both men. Rhoades said gets strike for robbing teen months for attempted robbery in the second degree. The second-de- gree robbery conviction constitutes a "strike" under the state's persis- tent offender sentencing law. "If you obtain three 'strikes' the only sentence a judge can impose is life in prison without the pos- sibility of parole. You're a third of the way there," Judge James Saw- yer told Mullen. Sawyer presided at a trial in which Mullen was convicted by a jury of participating in the robbery of two Shelton teenagers which netted a baseball cap and $15 for him and his codefendant, Brian Clayton Harding, 20, of 1619 Sum- mit, Shelton. Harding is serving 13 months in prison after testify- ing at Mullen's trial and pleading guilty last fall to second-degree robbery and attempted second-de- gree robbery. Mullen and Harding were un- der the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident shortly before midnight on August 15, according to testimony at the trial. Sawyer made a finding that the crime was alcohol-related. Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz recommended concurrent sentences at the high end of the ranges. Mullen had nothing to say at the sentencing. The judge said Mullen would be in community custody for 18 to 36 months after his release from prison. Sawyer ordered the man to have a drug and alcohol evalua- tion and to follow all recommend- ed treatment. He also said MuD len is to have no contact with the victims, Joshua Kilts and Michael Cook, for 10 years. Sawyer also imposed legal financial obliga- tions of $500 to the crime victims' compensation fund, $450 in attor- ney-fee recoupment for the county, $75 in restitution and $1,793.86 in court costs. Thursday, February 1,2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 29 when he arrived, citizens had sepa- rated the men and he saw Redmond and Hollowell attempting to steal Rodriguez's coat. With an offender score of three the standard sentencing range for Redmond is from nine to 12 months followed by 12 months of commu- nity supervision, Judge Sheldon ex- plained. She scheduled sentencing for February 26. 00Irrested but not charged Two men who appeared for ar- raignment in Mason County Supe rior Court on Monday, January 29, were told no charges had been filed against them. John Arthur Marshall-Dhuet, 21, of 1520 Old Belfair Highway, Belfair, who was arrested in an in- vestigation of possession of meth- amphetamine, possession of less than 40 grams of marijuana and use of drug paraphernalia. Sterling John Arbuckle, 21, of 171 North Skok Flats Road, Shel- ton, who was arrested in an inves- tigation of residential burglary and theft in the first degree. The two men were released from all conditions imposed on them by the court. No charges were filed in Mason County Superior Court against a 31- year-old man arrested in a domestic- violence incident. Merle Thomas Lindsay Jr., of 205 Turner Avenue, Shelton, appeared for arraignment on Monday, January 29, but Judge James Sawyer released him from all conditions imposed by the court. 00lrrest warrants Warrants were issued for the following people who failed to ap- pear for proceedings January 29 in Mason County Superior Court: Da, vid Wayne Cox, $6,905.90; Har, old Junior Jones, $2,500; Justin D. Christensen, $2,500; Jeremy Farrel Culver, $5,000; Blake Richard Fuller, $7,595.32; Ed, win Eugene Brown, $2,840.18; Inocencio Garcia Romero, $2,379.18; and Cory Alan Stee- hler, $3,597.03. Defendants plead guilty