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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