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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Year 125 -- Week 23 --- 8 Sections -- 58 Pages w Published in Shelton, Washington -- $1
By KEVAN MOORE old Shelton brushpicker origi- drich, who was hunting with a careful when firing. Carrillo, who was found just shy
nally from Guatemala. Aldrich friend for bear along the Califor- Aldrich testified that he didn't of 50 yards from the roadway,
A Mason County man was was facing a possible five-year nia Road was not careful enough think that he had hit anything, was a healthy 25 year old at the
found not guilty of second-degree prison sentence, in identifying his target or taking but heard about Pablo Carrillo's time of his death.
manslaughter in Mason County The not-guilty verdict came af- the shot. death later in the day through The pathologist said that Pablo
Superior Court last week. ter about a day of deliberations Aldrich's defense attorney, news reports and headed into the Carrillo lost about four liters of
Gerald Wayne Aldrich, 40, following a week-and-half-long Jeannette Boothe, though, suc- sheriffs office to describe where blood through internal bleeding
was accused of criminal negli- trial that included a jury visit to cessfully argued that Aldrich he had been and what happened, in his chest and probably sur-
gence in the shooting death of the scene of the shooting, was an experienced hunter who During the trial, a forensicvived for 20 minutes to an hour
Carlos Pablo Carrillo, a 25-year- Prosecutors alleged that Al-took his.time and was sufficiently pathol~st testified that Pablo aRer being shot.
Attorney
General's
office
investigates
sheriffs
office
By KEVAN MOORE
The Criminal Justice Di-
vision of the Washington
State Attorney General's
Office is investigating the
Mason County Sheriffs Of-
fice.
The investigation was
prompted by an April 5 re-
quest by Mason County
Prosecutor Mike Dorcy.' He
asked the AG's office to look
into complaints made by
Deputy Martin Borcherd-
ing, an undercover nardotics
detective who was involved
in an August 2009 figh~ a
bar in Allyn an"d subseq~nt
disturbance call at his girl-
friend's residence.
Borcherding eventually
filed whistleblower com-
plaints alleging that fellow
deputies and command staff
engaged in a conspiracy to
cover UP a botched inves-
tigation and sloppy police
work. He also later alleged
further that his person-
ell file was tampered with,
Sheriff Casey Salisbury and
his command staff engaged
in a smear campaign and re-
taliated against another un-
dercover detective involved
in Public Records Act law-
suit by releasing a photo of
him to the Journal.
Dorcy specifically asked
the AG's office to review the
sheriffs office and Wash-
ington State Patrol investi-
gations of the incident and
investigation "for a recom-
mendation regarding any
potential implications for
Brady violations or whistle-
blower issues, and any oth-
er issues or violations that
your office deems appropri-
ate."
Dorcy's reference to
"Brady" stems from the 1963
case, Brady v. Maryland,
which entitles defendants to
Due Process under the U.S.
Constition by allowing them
access to information that
could be exculpatory or im-
peach the credibility ~f pros-
ecutor's witness, including
police officers.
Sheriff Casey Salisbury
said this week that he wel-
comes another review of the
case.
"I'm aware of what's go-
ing on and it's basically a
seond opinion of the case
for (Mike Dorcy)," Salis-
bury said. "I trust Mike and
whatever he's':doing over
there is fine with inc. This is
not an investigation. This is
simply a review."
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Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Dave Moses Sr. competed in Saturday's logging Dhow during the 67th annual Forest Festive 8helton.
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By NATALIE JOHNSON
Mason County may have had
its biggest Forest Festival ever
this year, which many are at-
tributing to the weekend's sunny
warm weather.
Saturday and Sunday reached
high temperatures of 81 and 73 de-
grees respectively, according to the
National Weather Service. Afar
months of solid rain and cold tem-
peratures in Shelton, festival orga-
nizers said the sun definitely
drew
people outdoors and to the feStiv~li"
"This year I would say, for just
a rough estimate, between 5,000 •
- and 7~000 [people attended]," said J ..... I photo by Rick Kennedy
Forest Festival President Debi Fireworks light up the
Harvey. night sky on Saturday
As many as 2,000 more people in Shelton, For in-depth
attended this year's festival than coverage of the festival
last year's she said. see pages six and eight.
"For a festival that's struggling
to stay alive the participation we Annually, Forest Festival takes
get on festival weekend is astound- about $35,000 to put on. This year,
ing," she said. the festival board raised $25,000
on their own, and got $9,000 of year's festival.
lodging tax money, $5,000 from The forest festival board
the city and $4,000 from the coun- shouldn't have such a frantic
ty to fund the festival, search next year, since Holli Kim-
Harvey said that most events in reel has already signed up to run
the festival had higher attendance the parade for 2012.
than in recent years. The car show also went offwith-
"The carnival did more business out a hitch, drawing about three
than they'd ever done," she said. times as many cars as last year
"We feel that it's a great success from as far away as Seattle.
- every year we feel it was better We had 410 cars - it was a pret-
than last year." ty good year," said Randy Howard,
While the Forest Festival Pa-who organizes the festival's car
rade always draws a crowd, Har- show. "Bottom line, ffthe sun's out
vey said that it almost didn't hap- that's a pretty good number."
pen this year. Last year it rained on Sunday,
"This year we were not going to and only 136 people signed up for
have a parade because our parade the car show, he said.
chair quit," she said. "We searched Cars competed in 24 categories,
for a parade chair and couldn't find on top of Royalty's Choice and
one - we were really contemplat- Mayor's Choice awards, Howard
ing having our float and nothing said.
else." The festival board already began
However Lynne Freeman, who planning the 2012 festival yester-
usually only supervises the royalty day, and beginning in September
float, stepped up and organized will have a new president, current
the entire parade, saving it for this scholarship chair Tom Prieskorn.
Port infighting over records requests
By NATALIE JOHNSON
Journal photo by Natalie Johnson
Port of Shelton commissioner Jack
Miles speaks during a port meeting
earlier this week.
After weeks of peace at the Port of
Shelton Commission, Tuesday after-
noun's meeting quickly dissolved into
arguments and name-calling.
"You should build a sandbox outside
so you can go out and play then come in
to work.., instead of wasting the first 45
minutes of a meeting," said John Han-
son, owner of Northwest Event Organiz-
ers, which was recently awarded a con-
tract by the port commission to run this
year's Mason Area Fair.
See Port on page A-7
Annexation do-over
for Belfair Water
By ARLA SHEPHAHD
As it turns out, the Relfair Water District's reso-
lution to annex Blue Star Properties, LLC and Riv-
erhill Properties, LLC wasn't a resolution at all.
The county commissioners reviewed a staff re-
pert from Barbara Adkins of the community devel-
opment department and determined that while the
annexation was valid, the water district had not ac-
tually asked for it because the district's resolution
was not in a complete sentence.
. : ~.~, ~ a~ on page A-7