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F AR.S back,n By NATALIE JOHNSON trial hearing. natalie@masoncounty.cbrn Baze's trial is scheduled Travis Baze, charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shawn Joseph Morrow in March, appeared in Mason County Superior Court Monday for his pro- to start between Aug. 21 and Oct. 29. The defense and prosecution agreed the trial would take five to seven days. Mason County Prosecutor Mike Dorcy said the court would schedule specific court dates within that time pe- riod. Stephen Churchill has also been charged with first- degree murder in Morrow's death. His pro-trial hearing is scheduled for Monday. Authorities say Morrow met Baze and Churchill on March 26 at a public fish- ing area in the 3900 block of State Route 3, with the in- tent of buying heroin. According to authorities, Baze and Churchill beat Morrow with a baseball bat. Morrow died of his inju- ries on March 30. Baze and Churchill were charged in the crime that day, and held on $1 million bail. All kidnapper to appear in court Fresh Meaty Pork By NATALIE JOHNSON natalie@nmsonc.ounty.com The police report stated that Shel- ton's truck was parked at the bottom of that hill. Eoff was able to escape after she bit Shelton on his hand, the report states. Shelton Police Officer Calvin Mo- ran explained the justification for those charges in his report. "Based on the time of day, mini- mal lighting and secretive manner in the way that Shelton parked and walked up on Eoff, restrained her and then secretly held her in place where she was not likely to be found, (probable) cause exists for the arrest of Shelton for kidnapping in the sec- ond degree and assault in the fourth degree." When she broke free, Eoff flagged down the first car she saw, which was a Mason County Sheriffs deputy. --. Family Owned & Operatea -- Foreign & Domestic Auto Repair & Service 369-275-6405 • |8271 [ State Route 3 iocatedin DowntownAIIVn - Behind Allyn View RV Park ~ Member Mon-Fri 6:30 a.m.-6:00 o,m • Sat 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 215 South Second • 426-3371 Serving She~ton and Mason County for 86 year James Alan Shelton, the man ac- cused of assault and kidnapping after an incident at 2:30 a.m. on July 28, will make his next court appearance on Monday. Shelton has been charged with sec- ond degree kidnapping and fourth de- gree assault and is being held in the Mason County Jail on $100,000 bail. According to the Shelton Police, Cale Eoff was walking up the hill on Olympic Highway North when she heard footsteps behind her. Authorities said Shelton came out of the bushes and attacked Eoff from behind. They struggled, and ac- cording to the police report, Shelton dragged Eoff 30 feet down the hill. STAFF REPORT pr@rnasoncoun~v.com The deputy alerted other officers in the area to look for a man of Shel- ton's description. A Shelton Police Officer stopped a blue pickup truck with its lights out. The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle matched the victim's descrip- tion of her attacker and had a fresh bleeding wound on his hand, accord- ing to the report. According to Moran's report, Shel- ton denied any intent to harm or kid- nap Eoff. He told officers that he said, "Hello," to Eoff and she attacked him, the report states. Eoff has identified Shelton as her attacker. Shelton was previously accused of rape and murder in Snohomish Coun- ty in 1974. After a plea deal, he was convicted of second-degree murder. He was released in 2010. man dies on Spencer L; A Puyallup man died Sunday in an accident on Spencer Lake, the Mason County Sheriffs Office reported. John E. Eads, 60, was wakeboard- mg on Spencer Lake with his family on Sunday when he fell into the water just before 5 p.m. Amber alert teen found safe Authorities say she ran away Family members and bystanders pulled Ends out of the water and start- ed CPR. Mason County Sheriffs Deputies and Mason County Fire District 5 per- sonnel responded and were not able to revive Eads. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The sheriffs office initially reported that Eads' family said he had some sort of seizure before falling into the By NATALIE JOHNSON nam lie(~'ma, soncounty,com Aug. 1, representatives from'TV news station and law enforcement organiza- tions such as the FBI and Washington State Patrol Crime Lab swarmed into Mason County after an Amber Alert was issued for 16-year-old Viviana Gastmr Guerrero. Guerrero was found safe later that after- noon after one of her friends tipped off Ma- son County Sheriffs deputies that she was in the Agate area of Mason County. Chief Deputy Dean Byrd of the Mason County Sher- iffs Office characterized Guerrero as "simply a run- away." "During the course of the investigation the de- tectives identified friends and acquaintances of the young lady," Byrd said. Viviana "Those people were con- Gaspar tacted and advised to let Guerrero us know if they heard from her." Byrd said after finding Guerrero and questioning her, deputies concluded that the incident was not an ab- duction, as was originally thought. "She left the residence on her own free will," Byrd said. The sheriffs office issued the Amber Alert for Guerrero after she was reported m]ssing from her home at 7:30 a.m. last Wednesday morning. Deputies arrived at her home nine miles west of Shelton in the Dayton area to find her bedroom window open and her screen cut. Her room was in disarray and she had left her cell phone behind. Byrd said these are telltale signs of a possible abduction. "All of those things indicate to us that we needed to take fast action to ensure her safety," he said. While there has been some speculation in the media about whether Guerrero could face charges or be expected to pay expenses associated with the search for her, Byrd • said because there is no evidence proving that Guerrero purposely faked her own ab- duction, that would likely not be the appro- priate action. Page A 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal -Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 water. Mason County Coroner Wes Stock- well released a report Monday after- noon stating that Eads did not die from drowning, but rather from natu- ral causes, most likely a cardiac event. Ends was a retired sergeant with the Puyallup Police Department. Powers Funeral Home of Puyallup will be handling the funeral arrange- meats. :ourtesy pnoto Mason County SheriWs Office deputies will be conducting emphasis patrols in the Matlock area later this month. Sheriffs office emphasis patrols headed to Matlock area Mason County Sheriffs Of- fice deputies will be conduct- ing emphasis patrols in the Matlock area of Mason County during the last two weeks in August The emphasis will focus on traffic violations as well as oth- er violations that come ~o the deputies' attention. This ]s an ongoing effort by the Mason County Sheriffs Of- fice to reduce criminal activity in remote areas of the county and be more responmve to the public safety needs in those communities, officials said. A number of sheriffs deputies will be specifically assigned ~o conduct high visibility enforce- ment m neighborhoods that have been identified as high crime areas. Deputies will also concentrate on intelligence gathering activities in an at- tempt ~o identify suspects in these high crime areas. One such emphasis patrol has already been conducted by sheriffs deputies assigned ~o the Hoodsport area in July. During that emphasis, deputies made 55 traffic stops, issued 15 infraction notices and seven criminal citations, impounded ~wo vehicles, made three war- ran~ arrests, conducted two drug investigations and con- ~acted six suspicmus persons. Deputies were also able to gain several investigative leads on property crimes in the Hood- sport area that will hopefully lead to more arrests.