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HOWARD ARMFIELD, left, gets a big sendoff into retire- ment from Sheriff Casey Salisbury. Armfield retiring after decades in police work Chief Deputy Howard Arm- field retired Friday after 36 years of service in the Mason County Sheriffs Office. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he served a three-year stint with the Shelton Police Department after three years as a reserve of- ricer there. His co-workers sent him off with a party at the Colonial House. At this celebration, they showered him with gifts, in- cluding a wooden box from the Mason County Commission, a medal from his fellow officers, a life membership in the Olym- pic Mountain Lodge 23 of the Fraternal Order of Police, a ri- fle and ammunition and even a dry-erase board so his wife could keep him hopping with a "honey- do list." He also received a copy of the department's new mission state- ment, which he helped compose, plus a certificate commemorat- ing his various promotions over his years in the department. One of his colleagues also performed a skit in his honor. A number of people who at- tended the celebration spoke of how he had positively impacted their lives in one way or another. Though officially retiring, Arm- field will still help out in the sheriffs office for a little longer as newly elected Sheriff Casey Salisbury makes the transition to the office and implements some changes there. Veteran off to prison for indecent liberties A Shelton man who asSault- ed a woman on a Shelton street early in 2006 was ordered to serve 68 months in prison on an indecent liberties conviction in Mason County Superior Court last week. Benjamin I. Tuckett, 25, of 2126 Beverly Boulevard, Shel- ton, got a sentence at the top of the sentencing range from Judge James Sawyer, who said he would have imposed a mid- range sentence but for the fact that Tuckett committed two other crimes between the time he was charged in Mason Coun- ty and when he was tried. , Deputy Prosecutor Rebecca Jones Garcia, in recommending a maximum sentence, said, "The defendant, while on release in this case, was arrested and pled guilty to two counts of lewd conduct in Olympia Municipal Court." She called his crime one that "showed a certain amount of planning and forethought. The state would hope he will take advaptage of programs avail- able ht prison to get the help he needs," Jones Garcia added. TUCKETT WAS ACCUSED of grabbing the breasts of a 22- year-old woman and attempting to unbutton her pants with his other hand as she walked along Olympic Highway South, and was found guilty at trial. His victim, Angela Atkins, told the court Friday that Tuck- ett "has changed my life in a way I never thought it would he changed at my age. I hope you receive the help you need," she said, addressing Tuckett direct- ly. "I don't know why you did what you did." Defense attorney Ronald Ser- gi asked tbr a mid-range sen- tence based on a letter Tuckett's father provided, and asked the court tbr a mid-range sentence. He and the judge both noted that Tuckett's family was hurt by his crime but believed his behavior was affected by experiences he went through during military service in Iraq. Tuckett, Sergi said, has never admitted guilt, but is accepting the jury's verdict. He asked the court to recommend that Tuck- ett be allowed to participate in a sex offender treatment program if he meets the requirements. TUCKETT TOLD THE court he had tried to better him- self in jail by attending Reform- ers Anonymous, AA meetings and Bible studies. "I would ask the court to look at my military service and backgroand," he added. Sawyer told him his father's letter to the court was support- ive "with a lot of concern in it." His fhther, the judge said, indi- cated he had "a rough experi- ence in Iraq, and that may still be tending to haunt you. But that said, you've been fbund guilty as charged, and that was well supported by evidence in this courtroom." He said the two Olympia charges raised "a huge red flag" for him. "Whether that has any- thing to do with the horrors you may have seen really doesn't matter; that's a signal that this man has some things going out of control in his life." The judge told Tuckett: "You've indicated you're work- ing on some things, but those don't address what's going on with this case and your conduct in Olympia. You have to come fae to face with that demon and learn to deal with it." HE REMINDED Tuck- ' ett that what he did has had a devastating impact on another person's life. "I encourage you to consider the sexual deviancy treatment program available at Monroe. Get the help you need so you don't ever victimize an- other human being," he said. "Your family has not abandoned you; you should not abandon yourself." The judge imposed court costs of $2,093, a crime-victims' com- pensation fund contribution of $500, attorney-fee recoupment of $1,150, and a genetic testing fee of $100. Atkins told the court that she had been a person with no fears, but now she gets panic attacks and the incident plagues her dreams. Judge Sawyer advised her to seek counseling. He noted that restitution in the case will be ordered at a hearing set for July 30 and that victim compen- sation funds are also available to her. "You need to work to re- claim your life," the judge said. Tuckett waived his presence at a restitution hearing. He was granted the opportunity to take leave of his family in the court- room before he was returned to the jail for transport to the pris- on system. Page 30 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 5, 2007 A man arrested on a Seattle Police Department warrant near Shelton last weekend is being held here on $10,000 bail on a potential charge of possessing an illegal firearm, but he's wanted in a King County case in which bail was set at $500,000. Mason County sheriffs depu- ties arrested Stanley Allen Maciolek, 36, of 11425 12th Av- enue SW, Seattle, on a warrant for felony harassment. However, officers found a shotgun with a sawed-off 51/2-inch barrel in his vehicle. Maciolek is suspected of domestic violence. Evergreen Law Group was ap- pointed to represent him at his identification in Mason County Superior Court on Monday, and he is to be arraigned April 9. Court Commissioner Richard Adamson set bail at $10,000, which in view of the Seattle hold made conditions of release "a bit academic," he said. Deputy Prosecutor Mike Dorcy noted that the officers' report of Maciolek's arrest said they found among his effects a shopping list that included duct tape, pillow, shotgun shells, and a saw. The officers' report also said the list included Pringles Superior court roundup: J: S Shotgun shells, Pringles on suspect's shopping list " in potato chips. Also in superior court: • Richard Sorenson, 19, who gave his aunt's address of 604 Ellinor Street, Shelton, ap- peared Monday for identification on a potential charge of traffick- ing in stolen property in the sec- ond degree. Judge Toni Sheldon appointed Ronald Sergi to repre- sent him. Conditions include not going to Wal-Mart. He is to be arraigned April 9. • Stephen M. Roberts, 41, of 461 East Parkway Boulevard, Shelton, was identified on poten- tial charges of assault and mali- cious mischief. He is suspected of domestic-violence offenses. The alleged victim, Tracy Lee Mercer, was in court to say she did not want charges pressed, but Judge Sheldon reminded her that this is not her prerogative. Sheldon did modify an ear- lier no-contact order to place the couple's children in Ms. Mercer's custody. Bail was set at $1,000 and Roberts is to appear for ar- raignment April 9. • Jesse Patrick Thomas, 22, of 20 Steh-Chass Place, Shel- ton, was identified on potential charges of possession of a stolen firearm and having a loaded fire- arm in a vehicle. Thomas, who said he is a mem- ber of the Puyallup Indian Tribe, did not qualify for court-appoint- ed counsel. Deputy Prosecutor Rebecca Jones Garcia asked the court to set bail at $10,000, not- i ing that when Thomas was ar- 21: rested he had four municipal and district court warrants and She a tribal warrant outstanding. 1 :i ing Judge James Sawyer set bai Tom at $7,500, and scheduled ar ° nal rlal raignment for April 9. toc : COU: firs : cas, 00Irrested but not charged ' the:and the No charges had been filed on t against Darrcn James Pariseau, Alt of Port Orchard, who was arrested do late last month on a potential drug pat: charge, when the case came up for has arraignment Monday. abh A 1990 burglary case against 1 Anastacio Simon Morales was Sta dismissed without prejudice when ; cal- he appeared in court Monday. the Judge Sheldon observed that the ben case was a very old one which has twice involved holding Morales in :: hrel jail. It cannot be refiled. i! to : pecl 66 Man, horse both freak out ::: and then alarm is sounded A young Shelton man found in a horse barn on Agate Road shortly after 4:30 a.m. last No- vember was found guilty of bur- glary in the second degree by a Mason County Superior Court jury last Thursday. Shadow Wil- liams, 22, of 330 East Lakeshore Drive, Shelton, was ordered by Judge James Sawyer to appear for sentencing on April 9. Testimony in the case began with Alexandra Amende, who said she found Williams in her horse barn at the junction of Ag- ate Road and Agate Loop No- vember 1. She told the court that just before 4:45 a.m. November 1, the motion sensor alarm in her horse barn went off. "I was concerned because I had been finding things out of place in the barn; things were moved, a horse let out, or a shakebolt sitting in the middle of the alley- way; things didn't make sense," she said. When she heard the alarm, she said, she dressed and went to the barn. She took a handgun, she said, because her husband was incapacitated and she lives some 45 minutes from the sheriffs office. ON OPENING THE barn door and turning on the light, Amende said, she saw that the alarm was not in its place and then spotted the defendant in- side the hay chute. "He had the sensor, a lead rope and a hoof pick in his hands," she said. She said he told her he was trying to get the alarm apart. She said she grabbed him to take him to the house where she could call police, and he told her he was homeless and trying to get warm. He asked her to let him go, she said, and tried to run but she grabbed him and they fell to the ground. "We were wres- tling around on the ground, and the gun went off," she said. "He broke loose and took off run- ning." After Williams escaped, Amende said, she called 911 and gave a physical description of the man. "Within 10 minutes I got a call saying they had picked up a man on Agate Road," she said. She went to the scene and identified him as the young man she found in her barn. She told the jury she put items she found in the barn into a plastic bag, listing a belt she found lying next to the stairs, a plastic laundry bucket, a pack- age of cigarettes and a lighter. She put them in her closet, she said, where they remained un- til the evening before the trial, when Deputy Prosecutor Rein- hold Schuetz took them. QUESTIONED BY defense attorney Ronald Sergi, Amende said officers came the night of the incident and took photo- graphs, but she wasn't given in- structions about what to do with the items she had found. Deputy Matt Ledford of the Mason County Sheriffs Office reported responding to the call and said that about half a mile past the Agate Loop turnoff, he contacted Williams while he was walking down the side of a road heading away from the farm. Ledford testified that Wil- liams initially told him he had been chased by some people his girlfriend knew, and was hiding in the barn. Then, the deputy said, Williams claimed he was a transient seeking shelter in the barn because he was cold, and finally he said he was trying to find batteries for his flashlight. Ledford said the call had indi- cated the intruder was trying to steal the alarm, and when he asked Williams if he had it, he said, "I didn't steal it; she made me put it down." Responding to cross-exami- nation by Sergi, Ledford said the defendant wasn't trying to avoid him or be evasive. "He was just walking down the road," he said. WILLIAMS, ON the stand in his own defense, told the jury he had received a check and accept- ed a ride from some friends, who pulled off near Agate Loop Road and "tried shaking me down for my money, and we got into a fight." He said he fled through fences and fields to the barn, where he sheltered in a wing of the barn. He said he stepped backward and fell through a hole, coming down in a stall where he "came upon an animal that started freaking out. It slammed me against the wall and I climbed over the thing and stayed still because I was freaked." He said he tried to get out of the barn, but couldn't open the : doors and when he saw the lit- tle red light on the sensor, he thought it was something like a £ garage-door opener. "I tried it, i ty and it didn't work," he said. div Then, he said, he heard ing Amende approaching. "I figured chal it was the people who were after con] me," he said. He said he had lost , and the cigarettes and lighter, but :! benq denied that the belt and buck-fron et were his. When he got away i E from Amende, he said, he was : cha headed for his mother's home at :!! rant Timberlakes. i and ill a WILLIAMS TOLD the jury : j he had told the deputy he was chin homeless because he thought he and would be released. He had no in- filec tention of stealing anything, he : Sir said. i son, "Why didn't you go to the ter house and ask for help?" SchuetZ  reve asked him in cross-examination : whe and Williams responded: "Be-: and cause I was scared, sir." 199' Recalled, Amende said that i S the only way anyone could fall i: pro into a" horse stall would be if: they climbed up from the low side of the barn to an opening S above one of the stalls. --- q In their closing arguments, rt' Schuetz told the jury the defen- dant's testimony was not cred- ible, and Sergi asked the jurors i'i to look at a lack of evidence that yer Williams was in the barn to corn- i dati defe mit a crime, i:, Jurors were Monika Liebe-  now, Donald Goodall, Lois Strand, Valoree Carpenter, Tra-! cy Taylor, Erica Cooling, Connie Raezer, Beverly Wendell, Jen- nifer Ward, Katherine Bykerk, Barbara Quimby, Lenny Ham- mond and Manuel Rush. Guilty pleas: Drug trials averted Two cases pr-oceeding toward • Cassondra Raye Lee, 18, trial in Mason County Superior Court were resolved on Monday when the defendants entered changes of plea before Judge Toni Sheldon. * Cody Marshall, 31, of 240 East Emerald Lake Drive, Shel- ton, changed his plea in a case filed last fall to guilty on a charge of possession of a controlled sub- stance, in this case methamphet- amine. He admitted that on Oc- tober 26, he had meth in his pos- session when officers searched his car at the Emerald Lake home of his sister, Kahil Marshall. Sheldon set his sentencing for April 9, and said Marshall might be eligible for DOSA, the Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative. He could be ordered into treat- ment. who gave addresses of 22391 North Highway 101 and 140 106 at the time of her arrest last month, pled guilty to charges driving while intoxicated and pos- session of a controlled substance. There is a juvenile conviction on her record, the court noted. Lee admitted having metham- phetamine in her possession and driving under the influence of the drug. She was arrested February 13 by an officer of the Washingtov State Patrol who saw her driving erratically on West Cloquallum Road. Lee reportedly told the trooper she had a smoking device in her sock, and the trooper's field test of the residue in the pipe in- dicated meth. Sentencing is scheduled for April 16. HOWARD ARMFIELD, left, gets a big sendoff into retire- ment from Sheriff Casey Salisbury. Armfield retiring after decades in police work Chief Deputy Howard Arm- field retired Friday after 36 years of service in the Mason County Sheriffs Office. A veteran of the Vietnam War, he served a three-year stint with the Shelton Police Department after three years as a reserve of- ricer there. His co-workers sent him off with a party at the Colonial House. At this celebration, they showered him with gifts, in- cluding a wooden box from the Mason County Commission, a medal from his fellow officers, a life membership in the Olym- pic Mountain Lodge 23 of the Fraternal Order of Police, a ri- fle and ammunition and even a dry-erase board so his wife could keep him hopping with a "honey- do list." He also received a copy of the department's new mission state- ment, which he helped compose, plus a certificate commemorat- ing his various promotions over his years in the department. One of his colleagues also performed a skit in his honor. A number of people who at- tended the celebration spoke of how he had positively impacted their lives in one way or another. Though officially retiring, Arm- field will still help out in the sheriffs office for a little longer as newly elected Sheriff Casey Salisbury makes the transition to the office and implements some changes there. Veteran off to prison for indecent liberties A Shelton man who asSault- ed a woman on a Shelton street early in 2006 was ordered to serve 68 months in prison on an indecent liberties conviction in Mason County Superior Court last week. Benjamin I. Tuckett, 25, of 2126 Beverly Boulevard, Shel- ton, got a sentence at the top of the sentencing range from Judge James Sawyer, who said he would have imposed a mid- range sentence but for the fact that Tuckett committed two other crimes between the time he was charged in Mason Coun- ty and when he was tried. , Deputy Prosecutor Rebecca Jones Garcia, in recommending a maximum sentence, said, "The defendant, while on release in this case, was arrested and pled guilty to two counts of lewd conduct in Olympia Municipal Court." She called his crime one that "showed a certain amount of planning and forethought. The state would hope he will take advaptage of programs avail- able ht prison to get the help he needs," Jones Garcia added. TUCKETT WAS ACCUSED of grabbing the breasts of a 22- year-old woman and attempting to unbutton her pants with his other hand as she walked along Olympic Highway South, and was found guilty at trial. His victim, Angela Atkins, told the court Friday that Tuck- ett "has changed my life in a way I never thought it would he changed at my age. I hope you receive the help you need," she said, addressing Tuckett direct- ly. "I don't know why you did what you did." Defense attorney Ronald Ser- gi asked tbr a mid-range sen- tence based on a letter Tuckett's father provided, and asked the court tbr a mid-range sentence. He and the judge both noted that Tuckett's family was hurt by his crime but believed his behavior was affected by experiences he went through during military service in Iraq. Tuckett, Sergi said, has never admitted guilt, but is accepting the jury's verdict. He asked the court to recommend that Tuck- ett be allowed to participate in a sex offender treatment program if he meets the requirements. TUCKETT TOLD THE court he had tried to better him- self in jail by attending Reform- ers Anonymous, AA meetings and Bible studies. "I would ask the court to look at my military service and backgroand," he added. Sawyer told him his father's letter to the court was support- ive "with a lot of concern in it." His fhther, the judge said, indi- cated he had "a rough experi- ence in Iraq, and that may still be tending to haunt you. But that said, you've been fbund guilty as charged, and that was well supported by evidence in this courtroom." He said the two Olympia charges raised "a huge red flag" for him. "Whether that has any- thing to do with the horrors you may have seen really doesn't matter; that's a signal that this man has some things going out of control in his life." The judge told Tuckett: "You've indicated you're work- ing on some things, but those don't address what's going on with this case and your conduct in Olympia. You have to come fae to face with that demon and learn to deal with it." HE REMINDED Tuck- ' ett that what he did has had a devastating impact on another person's life. "I encourage you to consider the sexual deviancy treatment program available at Monroe. Get the help you need so you don't ever victimize an- other human being," he said. "Your family has not abandoned you; you should not abandon yourself." The judge imposed court costs of $2,093, a crime-victims' com- pensation fund contribution of $500, attorney-fee recoupment of $1,150, and a genetic testing fee of $100. Atkins told the court that she had been a person with no fears, but now she gets panic attacks and the incident plagues her dreams. Judge Sawyer advised her to seek counseling. He noted that restitution in the case will be ordered at a hearing set for July 30 and that victim compen- sation funds are also available to her. "You need to work to re- claim your life," the judge said. Tuckett waived his presence at a restitution hearing. He was granted the opportunity to take leave of his family in the court- room before he was returned to the jail for transport to the pris- on system. Page 30 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 5, 2007 A man arrested on a Seattle Police Department warrant near Shelton last weekend is being held here on $10,000 bail on a potential charge of possessing an illegal firearm, but he's wanted in a King County case in which bail was set at $500,000. Mason County sheriffs depu- ties arrested Stanley Allen Maciolek, 36, of 11425 12th Av- enue SW, Seattle, on a warrant for felony harassment. However, officers found a shotgun with a sawed-off 51/2-inch barrel in his vehicle. Maciolek is suspected of domestic violence. Evergreen Law Group was ap- pointed to represent him at his identification in Mason County Superior Court on Monday, and he is to be arraigned April 9. Court Commissioner Richard Adamson set bail at $10,000, which in view of the Seattle hold made conditions of release "a bit academic," he said. Deputy Prosecutor Mike Dorcy noted that the officers' report of Maciolek's arrest said they found among his effects a shopping list that included duct tape, pillow, shotgun shells, and a saw. The officers' report also said the list included Pringles Superior court roundup: J: S Shotgun shells, Pringles on suspect's shopping list " in potato chips. Also in superior court: • Richard Sorenson, 19, who gave his aunt's address of 604 Ellinor Street, Shelton, ap- peared Monday for identification on a potential charge of traffick- ing in stolen property in the sec- ond degree. Judge Toni Sheldon appointed Ronald Sergi to repre- sent him. Conditions include not going to Wal-Mart. He is to be arraigned April 9. • Stephen M. Roberts, 41, of 461 East Parkway Boulevard, Shelton, was identified on poten- tial charges of assault and mali- cious mischief. He is suspected of domestic-violence offenses. The alleged victim, Tracy Lee Mercer, was in court to say she did not want charges pressed, but Judge Sheldon reminded her that this is not her prerogative. Sheldon did modify an ear- lier no-contact order to place the couple's children in Ms. Mercer's custody. Bail was set at $1,000 and Roberts is to appear for ar- raignment April 9. • Jesse Patrick Thomas, 22, of 20 Steh-Chass Place, Shel- ton, was identified on potential charges of possession of a stolen firearm and having a loaded fire- arm in a vehicle. Thomas, who said he is a mem- ber of the Puyallup Indian Tribe, did not qualify for court-appoint- ed counsel. Deputy Prosecutor Rebecca Jones Garcia asked the court to set bail at $10,000, not- i ing that when Thomas was ar- 21: rested he had four municipal and district court warrants and She a tribal warrant outstanding. 1 :i ing Judge James Sawyer set bai Tom at $7,500, and scheduled ar ° nal rlal raignment for April 9. toc : COU: firs : cas, 00Irrested but not charged ' the:and the No charges had been filed on t against Darrcn James Pariseau, Alt of Port Orchard, who was arrested do late last month on a potential drug pat: charge, when the case came up for has arraignment Monday. abh A 1990 burglary case against 1 Anastacio Simon Morales was Sta dismissed without prejudice when ; cal- he appeared in court Monday. the Judge Sheldon observed that the ben case was a very old one which has twice involved holding Morales in :: hrel jail. It cannot be refiled. i! to : pecl 66 Man, horse both freak out ::: and then alarm is sounded A young Shelton man found in a horse barn on Agate Road shortly after 4:30 a.m. last No- vember was found guilty of bur- glary in the second degree by a Mason County Superior Court jury last Thursday. Shadow Wil- liams, 22, of 330 East Lakeshore Drive, Shelton, was ordered by Judge James Sawyer to appear for sentencing on April 9. Testimony in the case began with Alexandra Amende, who said she found Williams in her horse barn at the junction of Ag- ate Road and Agate Loop No- vember 1. She told the court that just before 4:45 a.m. November 1, the motion sensor alarm in her horse barn went off. "I was concerned because I had been finding things out of place in the barn; things were moved, a horse let out, or a shakebolt sitting in the middle of the alley- way; things didn't make sense," she said. When she heard the alarm, she said, she dressed and went to the barn. She took a handgun, she said, because her husband was incapacitated and she lives some 45 minutes from the sheriffs office. ON OPENING THE barn door and turning on the light, Amende said, she saw that the alarm was not in its place and then spotted the defendant in- side the hay chute. "He had the sensor, a lead rope and a hoof pick in his hands," she said. She said he told her he was trying to get the alarm apart. She said she grabbed him to take him to the house where she could call police, and he told her he was homeless and trying to get warm. He asked her to let him go, she said, and tried to run but she grabbed him and they fell to the ground. "We were wres- tling around on the ground, and the gun went off," she said. "He broke loose and took off run- ning." After Williams escaped, Amende said, she called 911 and gave a physical description of the man. "Within 10 minutes I got a call saying they had picked up a man on Agate Road," she said. She went to the scene and identified him as the young man she found in her barn. She told the jury she put items she found in the barn into a plastic bag, listing a belt she found lying next to the stairs, a plastic laundry bucket, a pack- age of cigarettes and a lighter. She put them in her closet, she said, where they remained un- til the evening before the trial, when Deputy Prosecutor Rein- hold Schuetz took them. QUESTIONED BY defense attorney Ronald Sergi, Amende said officers came the night of the incident and took photo- graphs, but she wasn't given in- structions about what to do with the items she had found. Deputy Matt Ledford of the Mason County Sheriffs Office reported responding to the call and said that about half a mile past the Agate Loop turnoff, he contacted Williams while he was walking down the side of a road heading away from the farm. Ledford testified that Wil- liams initially told him he had been chased by some people his girlfriend knew, and was hiding in the barn. Then, the deputy said, Williams claimed he was a transient seeking shelter in the barn because he was cold, and finally he said he was trying to find batteries for his flashlight. Ledford said the call had indi- cated the intruder was trying to steal the alarm, and when he asked Williams if he had it, he said, "I didn't steal it; she made me put it down." Responding to cross-exami- nation by Sergi, Ledford said the defendant wasn't trying to avoid him or be evasive. "He was just walking down the road," he said. WILLIAMS, ON the stand in his own defense, told the jury he had received a check and accept- ed a ride from some friends, who pulled off near Agate Loop Road and "tried shaking me down for my money, and we got into a fight." He said he fled through fences and fields to the barn, where he sheltered in a wing of the barn. He said he stepped backward and fell through a hole, coming down in a stall where he "came upon an animal that started freaking out. It slammed me against the wall and I climbed over the thing and stayed still because I was freaked." He said he tried to get out of the barn, but couldn't open the : doors and when he saw the lit- tle red light on the sensor, he thought it was something like a £ garage-door opener. "I tried it, i ty and it didn't work," he said. div Then, he said, he heard ing Amende approaching. "I figured chal it was the people who were after con] me," he said. He said he had lost , and the cigarettes and lighter, but :! benq denied that the belt and buck-fron et were his. When he got away i E from Amende, he said, he was : cha headed for his mother's home at :!! rant Timberlakes. i and ill a WILLIAMS TOLD the jury : j he had told the deputy he was chin homeless because he thought he and would be released. He had no in- filec tention of stealing anything, he : Sir said. i son, "Why didn't you go to the ter house and ask for help?" SchuetZ  reve asked him in cross-examination : whe and Williams responded: "Be-: and cause I was scared, sir." 199' Recalled, Amende said that i S the only way anyone could fall i: pro into a" horse stall would be if: they climbed up from the low side of the barn to an opening S above one of the stalls. --- q In their closing arguments, rt' Schuetz told the jury the defen- dant's testimony was not cred- ible, and Sergi asked the jurors i'i to look at a lack of evidence that yer Williams was in the barn to corn- i dati defe mit a crime, i:, Jurors were Monika Liebe-  now, Donald Goodall, Lois Strand, Valoree Carpenter, Tra-! cy Taylor, Erica Cooling, Connie Raezer, Beverly Wendell, Jen- nifer Ward, Katherine Bykerk, Barbara Quimby, Lenny Ham- mond and Manuel Rush. Guilty pleas: Drug trials averted Two cases pr-oceeding toward • Cassondra Raye Lee, 18, trial in Mason County Superior Court were resolved on Monday when the defendants entered changes of plea before Judge Toni Sheldon. * Cody Marshall, 31, of 240 East Emerald Lake Drive, Shel- ton, changed his plea in a case filed last fall to guilty on a charge of possession of a controlled sub- stance, in this case methamphet- amine. He admitted that on Oc- tober 26, he had meth in his pos- session when officers searched his car at the Emerald Lake home of his sister, Kahil Marshall. Sheldon set his sentencing for April 9, and said Marshall might be eligible for DOSA, the Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative. He could be ordered into treat- ment. who gave addresses of 22391 North Highway 101 and 140 106 at the time of her arrest last month, pled guilty to charges driving while intoxicated and pos- session of a controlled substance. There is a juvenile conviction on her record, the court noted. Lee admitted having metham- phetamine in her possession and driving under the influence of the drug. She was arrested February 13 by an officer of the Washingtov State Patrol who saw her driving erratically on West Cloquallum Road. Lee reportedly told the trooper she had a smoking device in her sock, and the trooper's field test of the residue in the pipe in- dicated meth. Sentencing is scheduled for April 16.