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e Man guilty of imprisoning girlfri A Shelton man who terrorized his girlfriend as she drove county roads until she bailed out of the truck into a snowy woods last win- ter was found guilty of three felo- nies by a Mason County Superior Court jury last Wednesday. Jurors found Juan Jacob Rivera, 27, of 40 North Agency Road, Shel- ton, guilty of unlawful imprison- ment, reckless endangerment and fourth-degree assault. He was also convicted of domestic violence as a component of the crimes. Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz told jurors that Samantha Kenyon was the mother of Rivera's year-old daughter and that early in the evening of January 16 this year, she agreed to give the man a ride to town after he showed up at her home on the Skokomish Reser- vation. During the ride, the deputy prosecutor said, Rivera tried to get Kenyon to admit that she had been cheating on him, and the ac- cusations escalated to threats. He would not let her leave the vehicle, directed her to turn several times, and eventually hit her as she drove along the wooded McEwan Prairie Road until she stopped the truck and fled into the woods. DEFENSE ATTORNEY Ron- aid Sergi told jurors they must keep an open mind and preserve the presumption of innocence until they had heard evidence presented in defense of Rivera. The state's first witness, King County resident Raffi Seropian, told jurors he was in Shelton with his fiancde, Shelley Hall, to visit her mother who had had surgery at Mason General Hospital. They were driving on McEwan Prairie Road with the window open be- cause he was smoking, he said, when a young woman jumped out of the woods on the far side of the road, crying "Help me! He's trying to kill me!" It had snowed and the road was slushy, Seropian said, so it took him a moment to stop, and when he got out of the car and called to her the girl had run back into the woods. He was waving cars past and calling to the girl to come out so they could help her when a pickup truck approached. "I thought, 'This guy's not going by,' " he said. "He pinned me against the car, rolled down the window and yelled," he said, indicating Rivera as the driv- er and quoting profanity the de- fendant used in inquiring as to the woman's whereabouts. HE TESTIFIED that Hall was trying to call 911 but was not get- ting a phone signal, and Rivera told him, "Go ahead and call the cops" as he spun back to go into the woods. "He said, 'She's high as a kite,' "he added. Seropian said they were leaving the scene when they realized the truck was coming up behind them. "He sped up and tried to run me offthe road," he said. He said they stopped and Rivera yelled, "I'll kill both of you." By then, he said, Hall had managed to make contact with 911 dispatchers. The next day, they made a report to the Mason County Sheriffs Office. Hall described hearing "the most earth-shattering scream" coming Rivera enters plea to another crime involving Kenyons Two days after a Mason Coun- ty Superior Court jury found him guilty of three domestic-violence felonies, Jacob Juan Rivera of Shelton pled guilty to a charge of malicious mischief in tle' second degree. Rivera, 27, of 40 North Agency Road, Shelton, admitted to the of- fense outlined in an officers' report filed at the time of his arrest. That report said Rivera broke a window in the residence of Roy and Kath- ryn Kenyon on December 25. The Kenyons are the parents of Rive- ra's girlfriend, Samantha Kenyon. According to court documents, Rivera and Samantha Kenyon had an argument and she went home to her parents at 71 North Enatai Court. He reportedly came there to talk to her and when her par- ents did not allow him to see her, he reportedly became angry, yell- ing and cursing. Then, the elder Kenyons said, they heard a loud noise and a front window was bro- ken out in the living room. Judge Toni Sheldon accepted Rivera's plea statement. Deputy Prosecutor Mike Dorcy said the state would ask for a sentence to run consecutively with that for the offenses in the case that went to trial. The court informed Rivera that his offender score, currently at six, could be higher depending upon the timing of his sentencing, since he was convicted of three counts at trial and one more felony charge remains to be resolved in the near future. Dorcy asked for a separate sen- tencing April 16, but Sheldon said she saw no reason for Rivera's be- ing transported twice to the court- house for sentencing. He is being held at the Washington Correc- tions Center. from the woods before they caught sight of Kenyon. She disappeared again after they stopped, Hall said, and almost immediately Rivera came up in the truck. She said she feared that Seropian's legs would be crushed when the truck closed in on them. The driver of the truck, she said, "was yelling, asking us if we had the woman in the car. But those weren't the terms he was using," she said. "He was using the f-word and the b-word, accusing us of hiding her. I have never been so frightened in my life," she said. She described reaching 911 and telling dispatchers where they had seen Kenyon, and how the truck had pulled alongside them and at- tempted to run them off the road after they left where Kenyon was. DEPUTY WILLIAM P. Reed told jurors he responded to a call made at 6:25 p.m. about a distur- bance on McEwan Prairie Road, and arrived about five minutes lat- er to find the pickup parked on the eastbound shoulder of the road. "As soon as I put the spotlight on the vehicle, the occupant extended both hands out the driver-side win- dow," he said. He told jurors that Rivera was cooperative and told him he'd been trying to call the sheriffs office, and that his girlfriend had run off into the woods. He put Rivera in handcuffs "for safety reasons," he said. Reed said he asked Rivera if he had any weapons on his person and was told Rivera had put the contents of his pockets into the con- sole of the truck. There, he said, he found a folding lockblade knife. Reed said he took Rivera to the Mason County Jail for booking, re- turning to the scene after Deputy Jim Sisson contacted dispatch to say a woman had come out of the woods near the railroad tracks. He said Kenyon, wet and cold after be- ing in the woods for an hour and a half, had red marks on her face and neck. Marks on the right side of her face were consistent with being went toward McEwan Prairie, she said, he kept telling her to pull over, then to go on. As she denied cheat- ing on him, she said, he said, "I just feel like hitting you right now." He counted to three and hit her, but she was able to deflect most of the blow with her arm, she said. She added that she was pretty sure he had a knife. "He said he knew who I was with, and he was going to go kill him, and then kill us as well. He asked me, 'Are you scared?' " she said. Finally she managed to stop the truck and took off running into the woods, she said. She told jurors that a car stopped, but before she could get to it Rivera pulled up and got out of the truck. After the other car left, she said, he came into the woods and she took off. She told jurors she later saw a patrol car's searchlight but couldn't reach it, and finally saw Sisson's patrol car. Asked about the marks on her face and neck, she wept as she said they were made by Rivera's assault. RECALLED TO the stand by the prosecutor, Deputy Reed iden- tified the knife he had taken from the truck. Then, called as the de- tnse's first witness by Sergi, he was asked if the bottom of Rivera's pants and shoes were wet when he was first contacted. Reed Said he hadn't noticed. Rivera took the witness stand in his own defense and said in re- sponse to Sergi's questions that he had asked Kenyon to take him back to the place at Timberlakes where he was living at the time. He referred to her home on the res- ervation as "our house" but said he wanted to get off the reservation that evening. He was in the pas- senger seat the entire time, he said, and conceded that they argued but said it was mainly about his con- cerns that she was using drugs. He admitted that the issue of her seeing someone else "was brought up" as they drove, but said he did not pull her hair or put his hands around her hair to intimidate her. hit by a fist or hand, while those on her neck appeared to be finger marks as if someone had grabbed  her by the neck, he said. He iden- tified photographs of Kenyon, the truck, and the marks on her face and neck. SAMANTHA KENYON told the court Rivera was initially in the back seat of the extended-cab truck, but after he began asking her if she was lying and accusing her of cheating on him, he got into the front seat. Once in town, he said he wanted to go to the place where he had been living, she said, and she told him she needed to get gas. They headed for Bayshore, but he told her not to go there because she might "get out and do some- thing stupid," and he ordered her to keep driving. She felt at that point that she had no choice, she said. As they He said at one point they were go- ing to call the place where he was living from Bayshore, but he said he decided not to. He wasn't wor- ried about Kenyon getting out of the truck and calling police, he said, and added that he didn't re- call any other times he had told her to pull over. He denied hitting her. When she stopped the truck and ran, he said, he was only wor- ried about her welfare. He said he contacted Seropian and Hall in their vehicle because he "wanted to know if Sam was okay." He said they had come to an understand- ing that they would all go seek po- lice help, but that he had decided Samantha's welfare was more im- portant and had returned to where she had disappeared. He said he never threatened to kill Saman- tha and didn't chase her into the woods. CROSS.EXAMINED by uty Prosecutor Schuetz, he Kenyon ran into the woods cause the two of them an argument. "That's all? An ment?" Schuetz countered. leaves her mother's truck on road and runs screaming into woods because you had an ment?" "It happened," Rivera said. Schuetz pressed the issue where Rivera was sittin "Isn't it true that, in fact, i of the belief you weren't to be on the rez and didn't want lice to see you?" That wasn't the case, maintained. "There wasn't no clusions put on me, and no tact. Why would I be in the seat?" he said. Asked about sault, Rivera indicated he put hands up in self-defense. "Are now saying Samantha you?" Schuetz asked. "I'm not used to down to me," Rivera said. assaulting you?" Rivera "Could be." "ARE YOU DENYING assaulted Samantha?" asked. "I'm not denying anything. here testifying, ain't I?" Rivera l swered. The prosecutor asked the fendant if he was denying prevented Kenyon from denying that he controlled denying anything was her from getting out of the Kenyon responded: "Exactly." "Did you accuse her on you?" Schuetz asked and said:"I wouldn't call it asked." Asked if he denied in Kenyon's face or Rivera said: "It didn't happen." Recalled to the stand, said Rivera had gotten into back seat because there were al punishment papers in that he thought had already effect. IN MAKING his closing ments, Schuetz suggested to jury that Rivera's not credible. In his lense attorney Sergi questioning Kenyon's and suggesting that Hall and plan were shocked and and did not recall the events evening clearly. He also said mony indicated Rivera only to strike orlap Kenyon, but actually hit her, since the blow. Judge Sawyer set Rivera's tencing for April 9. Jurors in the case were Warren, Marie Swanson, John Martin, Brian Nichols, Bernard, Lanette Donald Hartz, Frank Simon, vid Brown, Inez McCullough and Gerald Lott was alternate Not-guilty pleas: Theler burglary: Two :eens charged 2wo youths charged with bur- case was set on the 60-day calen- 5171 Highway 3, Shelton, entered hearings and trial on a 90-day cal- Both cases were set on a glary in a break-in at the Theler Center in Belfair were arraigned before Judge Toni Sheldon in Ma-" son County Superior Court Mon- day. Scott Adam Waterbury, 17, of 120 Byerly Drive, Belfair, was ar- raigned on charges that included second-degree burglary, theft in the first degree, trafficking in sto- len property in the first degree, and intimidating a witness, all stem- ming from a December 14 break-in at the community center. Earlier, charges pending against Waterbury had been re- manded from juvenile court, Attor- ney Andrew Rubenstein entered not-guilty charges on Waterbury's behalf. He is accused of taking and trying to sell a golf cart and a leaf blower, and of seeking to prevent witness Brian Pollard from giv- ing information in the case. His dar since he remains in custody on $100,000 bail. Michael T. Waye, 18, of 190 Byerly Drive, Belfair, a codefen- dant with Waterbury, pled not guilty to a charge of second-degree burglary through attorney Charles Lane. Way, was released on per- sonal recognizance. His case was set on a 90-day calendar with trial in July. IN OTHER arraignment pro- ceedings before Judge Sheldon and Court Commissioner Richard Ad- amson on Monday: • Rebecca Marie Bilbao, also known as Rebecca Byers, entered a not-guilty plea through attorney Ron Sergi to charges of theft in the second degree and identity theft. Her next court date is a May 14 omnibus hearing, and her case is due for trial in late July. • Michael Lamont, 42, of East a not-guilty plea through attorney Ron Sergi to a charge of unlaw- ful possession of a firearm in the second degree. He is alleged to have been in possession of a fire- arm forbidden to him because of a felony on his record. Judge Shel- don ordered him to remain free on personal recognizance but ordered him to go through administrative booking at the jail. • Kenneth Sean McMillian, 26, of 1511 Olympic Highway South, Shelton, entered not guilty pleas to charges of possession of a controlled substance, methamphet- amine, and physical control of a ve- hicle while under the influence. At- torney Andrew Rubenstein asked that the matter of a urinalysis re- port that McMillian had drugs in his system be addressed in a hear- ing on conditions of release set for April 9. Judge Sheldon set future endar with trial in late June. • Santos Jose Lofgren, 24, of 1040 SE Bloomfield Road, Shel- ton, entered a not-guilty plea to a charge of possession of a con- trolled substance, a charge filed after a state trooper stopped him for a wheel irregularity and noted a weapon, nunchukas, in the con- sole of the vehicle. On searching the vehicle, he reported, he found a container with a white substance that field-tested positive for meth- amphetamine. * Joshua Cayo, 20, of NE 90 Pine Tree Lane, Tahuya, and Joshua Leo Gallinari, 20, of 760 NE Snowcap Drive, Tahuya, en- tered not guilty pleas to charges of possession of methamphetamine. Attorney Andrew Rubenstein stood in for their attorneys in the arraignments before Court Com- missioner Adamson. calendar with omnibus May 14, pretrial June 4 and in the period beginning June The two were charged after were stopped for a routine offense and the arresting found a green leafy a bag in Cayo's pocket and powder that field-tested for methamphetamine in a bag tween the seats in the vehicle. • Elmer Harlen Chase, entered a not-guilty plea charge of criminal " in the first degree and Rubenstein stood in for Charles Lane at the He is accused of using tion belonging to his law, Leon C. Norris, to arrested on a Washington Department of Corrections rant. Chase's case is also set the 90-day calendar. * Compaq .lip .Blackberry .Handspring *Casio ,Dell • Palm & MORE BattedesP00s. Call today for a FREE ESTIMATE on a new Tranc system! r O__lyapic Heating & Cooling, LLC • Sales * Service • Installations It'sHard To StopA Tmne: • Repairs • Heating * Air Conditioning • Refrigeration • 426-9945 • 754-1235 • 1-800-400-9945 OLYM PI{C968BA Page 32 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 5, 2007 L e Man guilty of imprisoning girlfri A Shelton man who terrorized his girlfriend as she drove county roads until she bailed out of the truck into a snowy woods last win- ter was found guilty of three felo- nies by a Mason County Superior Court jury last Wednesday. Jurors found Juan Jacob Rivera, 27, of 40 North Agency Road, Shel- ton, guilty of unlawful imprison- ment, reckless endangerment and fourth-degree assault. He was also convicted of domestic violence as a component of the crimes. Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold Schuetz told jurors that Samantha Kenyon was the mother of Rivera's year-old daughter and that early in the evening of January 16 this year, she agreed to give the man a ride to town after he showed up at her home on the Skokomish Reser- vation. During the ride, the deputy prosecutor said, Rivera tried to get Kenyon to admit that she had been cheating on him, and the ac- cusations escalated to threats. He would not let her leave the vehicle, directed her to turn several times, and eventually hit her as she drove along the wooded McEwan Prairie Road until she stopped the truck and fled into the woods. DEFENSE ATTORNEY Ron- aid Sergi told jurors they must keep an open mind and preserve the presumption of innocence until they had heard evidence presented in defense of Rivera. The state's first witness, King County resident Raffi Seropian, told jurors he was in Shelton with his fiancde, Shelley Hall, to visit her mother who had had surgery at Mason General Hospital. They were driving on McEwan Prairie Road with the window open be- cause he was smoking, he said, when a young woman jumped out of the woods on the far side of the road, crying "Help me! He's trying to kill me!" It had snowed and the road was slushy, Seropian said, so it took him a moment to stop, and when he got out of the car and called to her the girl had run back into the woods. He was waving cars past and calling to the girl to come out so they could help her when a pickup truck approached. "I thought, 'This guy's not going by,' " he said. "He pinned me against the car, rolled down the window and yelled," he said, indicating Rivera as the driv- er and quoting profanity the de- fendant used in inquiring as to the woman's whereabouts. HE TESTIFIED that Hall was trying to call 911 but was not get- ting a phone signal, and Rivera told him, "Go ahead and call the cops" as he spun back to go into the woods. "He said, 'She's high as a kite,' "he added. Seropian said they were leaving the scene when they realized the truck was coming up behind them. "He sped up and tried to run me offthe road," he said. He said they stopped and Rivera yelled, "I'll kill both of you." By then, he said, Hall had managed to make contact with 911 dispatchers. The next day, they made a report to the Mason County Sheriffs Office. Hall described hearing "the most earth-shattering scream" coming Rivera enters plea to another crime involving Kenyons Two days after a Mason Coun- ty Superior Court jury found him guilty of three domestic-violence felonies, Jacob Juan Rivera of Shelton pled guilty to a charge of malicious mischief in tle' second degree. Rivera, 27, of 40 North Agency Road, Shelton, admitted to the of- fense outlined in an officers' report filed at the time of his arrest. That report said Rivera broke a window in the residence of Roy and Kath- ryn Kenyon on December 25. The Kenyons are the parents of Rive- ra's girlfriend, Samantha Kenyon. According to court documents, Rivera and Samantha Kenyon had an argument and she went home to her parents at 71 North Enatai Court. He reportedly came there to talk to her and when her par- ents did not allow him to see her, he reportedly became angry, yell- ing and cursing. Then, the elder Kenyons said, they heard a loud noise and a front window was bro- ken out in the living room. Judge Toni Sheldon accepted Rivera's plea statement. Deputy Prosecutor Mike Dorcy said the state would ask for a sentence to run consecutively with that for the offenses in the case that went to trial. The court informed Rivera that his offender score, currently at six, could be higher depending upon the timing of his sentencing, since he was convicted of three counts at trial and one more felony charge remains to be resolved in the near future. Dorcy asked for a separate sen- tencing April 16, but Sheldon said she saw no reason for Rivera's be- ing transported twice to the court- house for sentencing. He is being held at the Washington Correc- tions Center. from the woods before they caught sight of Kenyon. She disappeared again after they stopped, Hall said, and almost immediately Rivera came up in the truck. She said she feared that Seropian's legs would be crushed when the truck closed in on them. The driver of the truck, she said, "was yelling, asking us if we had the woman in the car. But those weren't the terms he was using," she said. "He was using the f-word and the b-word, accusing us of hiding her. I have never been so frightened in my life," she said. She described reaching 911 and telling dispatchers where they had seen Kenyon, and how the truck had pulled alongside them and at- tempted to run them off the road after they left where Kenyon was. DEPUTY WILLIAM P. Reed told jurors he responded to a call made at 6:25 p.m. about a distur- bance on McEwan Prairie Road, and arrived about five minutes lat- er to find the pickup parked on the eastbound shoulder of the road. "As soon as I put the spotlight on the vehicle, the occupant extended both hands out the driver-side win- dow," he said. He told jurors that Rivera was cooperative and told him he'd been trying to call the sheriffs office, and that his girlfriend had run off into the woods. He put Rivera in handcuffs "for safety reasons," he said. Reed said he asked Rivera if he had any weapons on his person and was told Rivera had put the contents of his pockets into the con- sole of the truck. There, he said, he found a folding lockblade knife. Reed said he took Rivera to the Mason County Jail for booking, re- turning to the scene after Deputy Jim Sisson contacted dispatch to say a woman had come out of the woods near the railroad tracks. He said Kenyon, wet and cold after be- ing in the woods for an hour and a half, had red marks on her face and neck. Marks on the right side of her face were consistent with being went toward McEwan Prairie, she said, he kept telling her to pull over, then to go on. As she denied cheat- ing on him, she said, he said, "I just feel like hitting you right now." He counted to three and hit her, but she was able to deflect most of the blow with her arm, she said. She added that she was pretty sure he had a knife. "He said he knew who I was with, and he was going to go kill him, and then kill us as well. He asked me, 'Are you scared?' " she said. Finally she managed to stop the truck and took off running into the woods, she said. She told jurors that a car stopped, but before she could get to it Rivera pulled up and got out of the truck. After the other car left, she said, he came into the woods and she took off. She told jurors she later saw a patrol car's searchlight but couldn't reach it, and finally saw Sisson's patrol car. Asked about the marks on her face and neck, she wept as she said they were made by Rivera's assault. RECALLED TO the stand by the prosecutor, Deputy Reed iden- tified the knife he had taken from the truck. Then, called as the de- tnse's first witness by Sergi, he was asked if the bottom of Rivera's pants and shoes were wet when he was first contacted. Reed Said he hadn't noticed. Rivera took the witness stand in his own defense and said in re- sponse to Sergi's questions that he had asked Kenyon to take him back to the place at Timberlakes where he was living at the time. He referred to her home on the res- ervation as "our house" but said he wanted to get off the reservation that evening. He was in the pas- senger seat the entire time, he said, and conceded that they argued but said it was mainly about his con- cerns that she was using drugs. He admitted that the issue of her seeing someone else "was brought up" as they drove, but said he did not pull her hair or put his hands around her hair to intimidate her. hit by a fist or hand, while those on her neck appeared to be finger marks as if someone had grabbed  her by the neck, he said. He iden- tified photographs of Kenyon, the truck, and the marks on her face and neck. SAMANTHA KENYON told the court Rivera was initially in the back seat of the extended-cab truck, but after he began asking her if she was lying and accusing her of cheating on him, he got into the front seat. Once in town, he said he wanted to go to the place where he had been living, she said, and she told him she needed to get gas. They headed for Bayshore, but he told her not to go there because she might "get out and do some- thing stupid," and he ordered her to keep driving. She felt at that point that she had no choice, she said. As they He said at one point they were go- ing to call the place where he was living from Bayshore, but he said he decided not to. He wasn't wor- ried about Kenyon getting out of the truck and calling police, he said, and added that he didn't re- call any other times he had told her to pull over. He denied hitting her. When she stopped the truck and ran, he said, he was only wor- ried about her welfare. He said he contacted Seropian and Hall in their vehicle because he "wanted to know if Sam was okay." He said they had come to an understand- ing that they would all go seek po- lice help, but that he had decided Samantha's welfare was more im- portant and had returned to where she had disappeared. He said he never threatened to kill Saman- tha and didn't chase her into the woods. CROSS.EXAMINED by uty Prosecutor Schuetz, he Kenyon ran into the woods cause the two of them an argument. "That's all? An ment?" Schuetz countered. leaves her mother's truck on road and runs screaming into woods because you had an ment?" "It happened," Rivera said. Schuetz pressed the issue where Rivera was sittin "Isn't it true that, in fact, i of the belief you weren't to be on the rez and didn't want lice to see you?" That wasn't the case, maintained. "There wasn't no clusions put on me, and no tact. Why would I be in the seat?" he said. Asked about sault, Rivera indicated he put hands up in self-defense. "Are now saying Samantha you?" Schuetz asked. "I'm not used to down to me," Rivera said. assaulting you?" Rivera "Could be." "ARE YOU DENYING assaulted Samantha?" asked. "I'm not denying anything. here testifying, ain't I?" Rivera l swered. The prosecutor asked the fendant if he was denying prevented Kenyon from denying that he controlled denying anything was her from getting out of the Kenyon responded: "Exactly." "Did you accuse her on you?" Schuetz asked and said:"I wouldn't call it asked." Asked if he denied in Kenyon's face or Rivera said: "It didn't happen." Recalled to the stand, said Rivera had gotten into back seat because there were al punishment papers in that he thought had already effect. IN MAKING his closing ments, Schuetz suggested to jury that Rivera's not credible. In his lense attorney Sergi questioning Kenyon's and suggesting that Hall and plan were shocked and and did not recall the events evening clearly. He also said mony indicated Rivera only to strike orlap Kenyon, but actually hit her, since the blow. Judge Sawyer set Rivera's tencing for April 9. Jurors in the case were Warren, Marie Swanson, John Martin, Brian Nichols, Bernard, Lanette Donald Hartz, Frank Simon, vid Brown, Inez McCullough and Gerald Lott was alternate Not-guilty pleas: Theler burglary: Two :eens charged 2wo youths charged with bur- case was set on the 60-day calen- 5171 Highway 3, Shelton, entered hearings and trial on a 90-day cal- Both cases were set on a glary in a break-in at the Theler Center in Belfair were arraigned before Judge Toni Sheldon in Ma-" son County Superior Court Mon- day. Scott Adam Waterbury, 17, of 120 Byerly Drive, Belfair, was ar- raigned on charges that included second-degree burglary, theft in the first degree, trafficking in sto- len property in the first degree, and intimidating a witness, all stem- ming from a December 14 break-in at the community center. Earlier, charges pending against Waterbury had been re- manded from juvenile court, Attor- ney Andrew Rubenstein entered not-guilty charges on Waterbury's behalf. He is accused of taking and trying to sell a golf cart and a leaf blower, and of seeking to prevent witness Brian Pollard from giv- ing information in the case. His dar since he remains in custody on $100,000 bail. Michael T. Waye, 18, of 190 Byerly Drive, Belfair, a codefen- dant with Waterbury, pled not guilty to a charge of second-degree burglary through attorney Charles Lane. Way, was released on per- sonal recognizance. His case was set on a 90-day calendar with trial in July. IN OTHER arraignment pro- ceedings before Judge Sheldon and Court Commissioner Richard Ad- amson on Monday: • Rebecca Marie Bilbao, also known as Rebecca Byers, entered a not-guilty plea through attorney Ron Sergi to charges of theft in the second degree and identity theft. Her next court date is a May 14 omnibus hearing, and her case is due for trial in late July. • Michael Lamont, 42, of East a not-guilty plea through attorney Ron Sergi to a charge of unlaw- ful possession of a firearm in the second degree. He is alleged to have been in possession of a fire- arm forbidden to him because of a felony on his record. Judge Shel- don ordered him to remain free on personal recognizance but ordered him to go through administrative booking at the jail. • Kenneth Sean McMillian, 26, of 1511 Olympic Highway South, Shelton, entered not guilty pleas to charges of possession of a controlled substance, methamphet- amine, and physical control of a ve- hicle while under the influence. At- torney Andrew Rubenstein asked that the matter of a urinalysis re- port that McMillian had drugs in his system be addressed in a hear- ing on conditions of release set for April 9. Judge Sheldon set future endar with trial in late June. • Santos Jose Lofgren, 24, of 1040 SE Bloomfield Road, Shel- ton, entered a not-guilty plea to a charge of possession of a con- trolled substance, a charge filed after a state trooper stopped him for a wheel irregularity and noted a weapon, nunchukas, in the con- sole of the vehicle. On searching the vehicle, he reported, he found a container with a white substance that field-tested positive for meth- amphetamine. * Joshua Cayo, 20, of NE 90 Pine Tree Lane, Tahuya, and Joshua Leo Gallinari, 20, of 760 NE Snowcap Drive, Tahuya, en- tered not guilty pleas to charges of possession of methamphetamine. Attorney Andrew Rubenstein stood in for their attorneys in the arraignments before Court Com- missioner Adamson. calendar with omnibus May 14, pretrial June 4 and in the period beginning June The two were charged after were stopped for a routine offense and the arresting found a green leafy a bag in Cayo's pocket and powder that field-tested for methamphetamine in a bag tween the seats in the vehicle. • Elmer Harlen Chase, entered a not-guilty plea charge of criminal " in the first degree and Rubenstein stood in for Charles Lane at the He is accused of using tion belonging to his law, Leon C. Norris, to arrested on a Washington Department of Corrections rant. Chase's case is also set the 90-day calendar. * Compaq .lip .Blackberry .Handspring *Casio ,Dell • Palm & MORE BattedesP00s. Call today for a FREE ESTIMATE on a new Tranc system! r O__lyapic Heating & Cooling, LLC • Sales * Service • Installations It'sHard To StopA Tmne: • Repairs • Heating * Air Conditioning • Refrigeration • 426-9945 • 754-1235 • 1-800-400-9945 OLYM PI{C968BA Page 32 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 5, 2007 L