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ii ml~m,qmJ~,lll X ' j~l =J=)J ~II I,l,l,I 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." o INIU! l!l! Ioi!!!IUg II. Journal photo by Natalie Johnson Dave Moses Sr. competed in Saturday's logging Dhow during the 67th annual Forest Festive 8helton. un 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