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Two are arrested on allegations of manufacturing meth at Agate site ufacture of methamphetamine. He was also identified in an in- vestigation of delivery of a con- trolled substance and has an out- standing warrant on another drug charge, prosecutors said. Judge Toni Sheldon set bail at $50,000 pending arraignment scheduled for October 14. "The bail is high; I recognize that but Mr. Lee has a significant criminal A couple facing methampheta- mine-manufacture charges was identified in Mason County Supe- rior Court last Thursday. Bobby Charles Lee, 41, and Georgia Gall Lee, 35, of 1701 East Agate Loop Road, Shelton, were identified on drug charges. Bobby Lee was arrested in an investigation of possession of a controlled substance for the man- Alter three-day trial: history," she said. Georgia Gall Lee was identified in an investigation of possession of methamphetamine. She was identified on the same charge last month but was released after prosecutors failed to file a crimi- nal charge. Lee told Judge Sheldon that she is unemployed. Sheldon found her to be indigent and appointed Charles Lane to be her defense attorney. The judge found prob- able cause for her arrest and set bail at $5,000 pending arraign- ment on October 14. The Lees' home on East Agate Road was raided last month by deputies of Mason County Sheriff and troopers with the Washing- ton State Patrol. The property has been the subject of a years- long dispute between owner Bill Petty and Mason County govern- ment. Local health officials have de- clared a trailer on the land to be solid waste. Petty is fighting cita- tions that claim he has violated regulations governing the dispo- sal of solid waste. An 18-year-old mother also faces a drug charge in connection with the raid. contractor back on Matlock road; county sees red Resurfacing of the Shelton- Matlock Road started up again Wednesday after several months' interruption when Wilder Construction of Olympia pulled out workers and equip- ment for other projects. Mason County Public Works Director Jerry Hauth is not happy Norlin is found guilty of robbing youth of his 'b g lue Tommy Hilfiger Leonard Luigi Norling, 22, of Hoodsport was found guilty Thursday of robbery after a three- day trial in Mason County Supe- rior Court. The charge concerned an inci- dent that occurred in downtown Shelton on the evening of Janu- ary 12-13. The jury found him in- nocent of the more serious charge of robbery in the first degree. Judge James Sawyer ordered a presentence investigation prior to sentencing scheduled fbr October 28. NORI,ING WAS accused of using a knife to steal a blue Tom- my Hilfiger jacket from 15-year- old Josiah Martin of Shelton, but after deliberating most of Wednesday afternoon and all of Thursday morning tile jury stopped short of convicting him of armed robbery and instead con- victed him on the lesser charge of robbery in the second degree, Shelton Police Sergeant Jerry Lingle, called to the stand Octo- ber 4 by Deputy Prosecutor Rein- hold Schuetz, testified that after receiving a report that Joe Mar- tin, a teenager, had been robbed, he contacted Norling in front of the l,awton Apartments on North Seventh Street in Shelton. Lingle said he took Norling to the station for questioning and said Norling denied knowing Martin but admitted, "my story isn't going to hold up in no court." Lingle said he also investigated allegations that Norling had at- tempted to intimidate Martin and Amber Beasley, a witness in the case. Cross-examined by defense at- torney Richard Woodrow, Lingle said Jacob Clary and Beasley were a couple back then and that one witness told him Clary deliv- ered the coat to Beasley's home in the Dayton area. JUDGE SAWYER adjourned proceedings for the day after Lin- gle testified. Schuetz called on Shelton Police Detective Thom Adams Tuesday morning. Adams said he helped investigate allega- tions that Norling had robbed Martin of his coat at knifepoint. He said he went to Beasley's home and that a friend of Beasley and Clary, Seth Woodworth, showed up at the station with the coat the following day. Adams then identified the jacket and some photographs he had taken when Woodworth brought it in. Questioned by the defense at- torney, Adams testified that he and Woodworth searched Beas- ley's home for the jacket but did not find it. Schuetz then called the 20- year-old Beasley to the stand. She said that she was at a party at Ron "Reefer" Wardwelrs house with Woodworth, Clary, Norling and Martin on the night of Janu- ary 12 and that Norling told Mar- tin that he liked his blue coat. Beasley said Norling "was flushed and worked up" when he left Wardwelrs house and that he lat- er brought the coat to her hous(, "He said he got the coat," she said. BEASLEY IDENTIFIED the jacket and said she thought it might be stolen. "I put the coat behind the washing machine," she said. She said that later on the morning of January 13 two police detectives came to her house and asked about the coat. "I told them I didn't know where it was be- cause I was scared," she said. She said she later asked Woodworth to take the coat to the Shelton Po- lice Department. Cross-examined by Woodrow, she testified that she saw Norling leave the party at Wardwell's house and that 8he assumed Mar- tin had gone home. She said Norl- ing arrived at her house with the coat about 15 minutes after she got home. "When I woke up the next morning it was in the chair," she said. Beasley refuted allegations that her fiance!, Clary, stole the coat. "He said it was a nice jacket but he didn't take it," she said. SCHUETZ THEN called 15- year-old Martin to the stand. He said he was wearing a Tommy Hilfiger pullover jacket when he went to the party at Wardwell's house and admitted that he has two theft convictions on his crimi- nal record. Martin testified that Beasley, her fianc6 and Norling all said he should give the coat to Beasley. He said he eventually left the party with Norling and walked over to the Safeway store in downtown Shelton. He then testified that he "got shoved by Leonard" as they were walking back to the party from the store. He said Norlirsg hit him twice and then pulled out a knife. "He said take it off or I'm going to kill you," Martin told the court. He said he gave Norling the coat and then went back to the store and called the police. Under Woodrow's cross-exami- nation he said he had had two run-ins with Norling before the 1714 Olympic Highway North Same-Day Service on Most Glass @ • Residential Vinyl Windows • Mirrors • Contractor's Discounts • Rock Chip Repairs * Auto Glass Specialist party at Wardwell's. On one occa- sion, he said, he hit Norling with a snow shovel and on another he hit him with a board, tie said Norling didn't seem to be angry when they met at Wardwell's house. "Ite was pretty drunk and we were talking about the fight and it seemed like it didn't bother him anymore," Martin told the court. SCHUETZ CALLED the 21- year-old Woodworth to tile stand as a witness for the state on Wednesday morning. Woodworth said he knows Norling and over- heard him say to Martin, "Are you going to give that coat to me or am I going to have to take it from you?" He said he and others at the party took the statement as a joke. He didn't notice that Norling and Martin left the party, he said, but he did notice when Norling returned. "He came back and said 'We've got to go, we've got to go,' and I asked him why and he said 'We've got to go,'" he said of Norl- ing. Woodworth said he and Norl- ing got into Woodworth's pickup truck and drove out to Dayton, where W6odworth lived with Beasley and Amber Lapic. fie told the jury he and Norling started drinking whiskey while Beasley and Clary went to bed. "The next day when the detec- tive showed up that's when I knew that the jacket had been in the house," he said. WOODWORTH SAID he helped Detective Adams look for that coat and that Beasley ap- proached him after Adams left. "Amber gave me the coat and said, 'Deal with this mess. I don't want to deal with it' so I took the coat in and made a statement," he told the jury. ' tie then identified a blue Tom- my Hilfiger coat as the one he took to the police station. Under cross-examination by Woodrow he testified that he never saw Norl- ing in possession of a knife. Schuetz then offered into the evidence a recording of a call Martin made to police dispatchers shortly after the robbery. Michael Akin, director of the Shelton Communications Center, testified that the tape was a true and ac- curate one before Schuetz played it for the jury. On it Martin is heard saying that "Some big guy named Leo- nard just socked me in the face and took my jacket" and the dis- patcher is heard telling police of- ficers that Martin was "threatened with a knife by Leo- nard Norling." JUDGE SAWYER then read into the record a statement agreed upon by Schuetz and Woodrow indicating that Norling had been previously convicted of attempting to intimidate Beasley and Martin a few weeks after Martin was robbed. Schuetz then rested the state's case and Woodrow Called Earl Dunning of Shelton to the stand. Dunning, the manager of the Lawton Apartments, went over pictures and diagrams of the buildings and described how there are two gates to the com- plex. He said he and his wife were home the night of the robbery but didn't hear any commotion. Woodrow then rested for the defense. IN HIS CLOSING remarks Schuetz said Norling used "force or fear" to steal the coat, these be- ing one of elements of robbery in the first degree. He described Norling knocking Martin to the ground. "When he gets up out comes the knife and he's told, 'Give me the coat.' That is the force or fear there," Schuetz said. Woodrow challenged the cred- ibility of Martin and Beasley. He said that Martin has two convic- tions for theft and was smirking while he described the robbery. He also reminded the jury that Martin had hit Norling with a shovel and a board earlier on January 12. "We know there was bad blood between those two people. That was testified to by Mr. Martin. A NEW MILLENIUM A NEW BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS A NEW BEGINNING Iusincss as usual is not, going to be usual business. We ileed a change ... In perception, In appearance, In budgeting, In actions A commissioner that will listen to the taxpayers, form a citizens advisory committee, work to build District 5 back up and take away the negative perception. Wc don't need more appointed commissioners. " We just need one that will work with the others and be the voice for the District's constituents. NOVEMBER 2ND VOTE FOR A CHANGE... DAVIID TAGYE FIRE COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5 Paid for by the citizens to elect David Tagye Fire.. Commissioner, 290 Rd. of Tralee, Shelton, WA 98584 pullover When you strike somebody with a shovel and then you strike some- body with a board then that ex- hibits animosity between two people," he said. Woodrow suggested the fight might have given Martin a reason to lie about the robbery and point- ed out that Beasley lied when she told police that she didn't know anything about the coat. "If she would lie then she could lie here. There's no difference," Woodrow said. Jurors were Virginia Fadden, Tracy West, Roger Burmaster, Margaret Ledbetter, Shari Alex- ander, Kord Lofthus, Howard [ Garner, Sandra Gustin, Anita [ Bjornstedt, Jeanette Hauser, Tammy Johnson and Anthony Bo- lar-Softich. Karen Everett was the alternate juror. Call 426-3163 [ Guaranteed Quality * Monday-Friday 8-5 I I II I I IIII I II III Page 18 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, October 14, 1999 with the contractor. The Journal the bid ect, which extends Simpson sort Bingham Creek awarded early in the once work had begun, tractor bid on other eluding work on the 101 slides in the countY. The paving was only from the sort yard to L e watzel before the pull-, At this point, would reco of' commissioners ages against Wilder to complete the projc time frame specific tract. Firefighters Local fire districtS - continually need help, call the ,buse?nt. your local fire aep VOTE WISELY Elect CAROLYN Commissioner of Paid for by Carolyn Kerr for Commissioner of Finance, 501 WA 98584 • 426-2356. for Get rates as tow as 7.50% -'"AW* art modets between 1993 & 2000 -- ths This tow rate with terms up to 72 $0m,.. from Peninsula Community Federa[ CreCllt Union. Choose from Parr Auto's huge setection of quality cars and The best of their used car inventorY in downtown Betfair at special event Two are arrested on allegations of manufacturing meth at Agate site ufacture of methamphetamine. He was also identified in an in- vestigation of delivery of a con- trolled substance and has an out- standing warrant on another drug charge, prosecutors said. Judge Toni Sheldon set bail at $50,000 pending arraignment scheduled for October 14. "The bail is high; I recognize that but Mr. Lee has a significant criminal A couple facing methampheta- mine-manufacture charges was identified in Mason County Supe- rior Court last Thursday. Bobby Charles Lee, 41, and Georgia Gall Lee, 35, of 1701 East Agate Loop Road, Shelton, were identified on drug charges. Bobby Lee was arrested in an investigation of possession of a controlled substance for the man- Alter three-day trial: history," she said. Georgia Gall Lee was identified in an investigation of possession of methamphetamine. She was identified on the same charge last month but was released after prosecutors failed to file a crimi- nal charge. Lee told Judge Sheldon that she is unemployed. Sheldon found her to be indigent and appointed Charles Lane to be her defense attorney. The judge found prob- able cause for her arrest and set bail at $5,000 pending arraign- ment on October 14. The Lees' home on East Agate Road was raided last month by deputies of Mason County Sheriff and troopers with the Washing- ton State Patrol. The property has been the subject of a years- long dispute between owner Bill Petty and Mason County govern- ment. Local health officials have de- clared a trailer on the land to be solid waste. Petty is fighting cita- tions that claim he has violated regulations governing the dispo- sal of solid waste. An 18-year-old mother also faces a drug charge in connection with the raid. contractor back on Matlock road; county sees red Resurfacing of the Shelton- Matlock Road started up again Wednesday after several months' interruption when Wilder Construction of Olympia pulled out workers and equip- ment for other projects. Mason County Public Works Director Jerry Hauth is not happy Norlin is found guilty of robbing youth of his 'b g lue Tommy Hilfiger Leonard Luigi Norling, 22, of Hoodsport was found guilty Thursday of robbery after a three- day trial in Mason County Supe- rior Court. The charge concerned an inci- dent that occurred in downtown Shelton on the evening of Janu- ary 12-13. The jury found him in- nocent of the more serious charge of robbery in the first degree. Judge James Sawyer ordered a presentence investigation prior to sentencing scheduled fbr October 28. NORI,ING WAS accused of using a knife to steal a blue Tom- my Hilfiger jacket from 15-year- old Josiah Martin of Shelton, but after deliberating most of Wednesday afternoon and all of Thursday morning tile jury stopped short of convicting him of armed robbery and instead con- victed him on the lesser charge of robbery in the second degree, Shelton Police Sergeant Jerry Lingle, called to the stand Octo- ber 4 by Deputy Prosecutor Rein- hold Schuetz, testified that after receiving a report that Joe Mar- tin, a teenager, had been robbed, he contacted Norling in front of the l,awton Apartments on North Seventh Street in Shelton. Lingle said he took Norling to the station for questioning and said Norling denied knowing Martin but admitted, "my story isn't going to hold up in no court." Lingle said he also investigated allegations that Norling had at- tempted to intimidate Martin and Amber Beasley, a witness in the case. Cross-examined by defense at- torney Richard Woodrow, Lingle said Jacob Clary and Beasley were a couple back then and that one witness told him Clary deliv- ered the coat to Beasley's home in the Dayton area. JUDGE SAWYER adjourned proceedings for the day after Lin- gle testified. Schuetz called on Shelton Police Detective Thom Adams Tuesday morning. Adams said he helped investigate allega- tions that Norling had robbed Martin of his coat at knifepoint. He said he went to Beasley's home and that a friend of Beasley and Clary, Seth Woodworth, showed up at the station with the coat the following day. Adams then identified the jacket and some photographs he had taken when Woodworth brought it in. Questioned by the defense at- torney, Adams testified that he and Woodworth searched Beas- ley's home for the jacket but did not find it. Schuetz then called the 20- year-old Beasley to the stand. She said that she was at a party at Ron "Reefer" Wardwelrs house with Woodworth, Clary, Norling and Martin on the night of Janu- ary 12 and that Norling told Mar- tin that he liked his blue coat. Beasley said Norling "was flushed and worked up" when he left Wardwelrs house and that he lat- er brought the coat to her hous(, "He said he got the coat," she said. BEASLEY IDENTIFIED the jacket and said she thought it might be stolen. "I put the coat behind the washing machine," she said. She said that later on the morning of January 13 two police detectives came to her house and asked about the coat. "I told them I didn't know where it was be- cause I was scared," she said. She said she later asked Woodworth to take the coat to the Shelton Po- lice Department. Cross-examined by Woodrow, she testified that she saw Norling leave the party at Wardwell's house and that 8he assumed Mar- tin had gone home. She said Norl- ing arrived at her house with the coat about 15 minutes after she got home. "When I woke up the next morning it was in the chair," she said. Beasley refuted allegations that her fiance!, Clary, stole the coat. "He said it was a nice jacket but he didn't take it," she said. SCHUETZ THEN called 15- year-old Martin to the stand. He said he was wearing a Tommy Hilfiger pullover jacket when he went to the party at Wardwell's house and admitted that he has two theft convictions on his crimi- nal record. Martin testified that Beasley, her fianc6 and Norling all said he should give the coat to Beasley. He said he eventually left the party with Norling and walked over to the Safeway store in downtown Shelton. He then testified that he "got shoved by Leonard" as they were walking back to the party from the store. He said Norlirsg hit him twice and then pulled out a knife. "He said take it off or I'm going to kill you," Martin told the court. He said he gave Norling the coat and then went back to the store and called the police. Under Woodrow's cross-exami- nation he said he had had two run-ins with Norling before the 1714 Olympic Highway North Same-Day Service on Most Glass @ • Residential Vinyl Windows • Mirrors • Contractor's Discounts • Rock Chip Repairs * Auto Glass Specialist party at Wardwell's. On one occa- sion, he said, he hit Norling with a snow shovel and on another he hit him with a board, tie said Norling didn't seem to be angry when they met at Wardwell's house. "Ite was pretty drunk and we were talking about the fight and it seemed like it didn't bother him anymore," Martin told the court. SCHUETZ CALLED the 21- year-old Woodworth to tile stand as a witness for the state on Wednesday morning. Woodworth said he knows Norling and over- heard him say to Martin, "Are you going to give that coat to me or am I going to have to take it from you?" He said he and others at the party took the statement as a joke. He didn't notice that Norling and Martin left the party, he said, but he did notice when Norling returned. "He came back and said 'We've got to go, we've got to go,' and I asked him why and he said 'We've got to go,'" he said of Norl- ing. Woodworth said he and Norl- ing got into Woodworth's pickup truck and drove out to Dayton, where W6odworth lived with Beasley and Amber Lapic. fie told the jury he and Norling started drinking whiskey while Beasley and Clary went to bed. "The next day when the detec- tive showed up that's when I knew that the jacket had been in the house," he said. WOODWORTH SAID he helped Detective Adams look for that coat and that Beasley ap- proached him after Adams left. "Amber gave me the coat and said, 'Deal with this mess. I don't want to deal with it' so I took the coat in and made a statement," he told the jury. ' tie then identified a blue Tom- my Hilfiger coat as the one he took to the police station. Under cross-examination by Woodrow he testified that he never saw Norl- ing in possession of a knife. Schuetz then offered into the evidence a recording of a call Martin made to police dispatchers shortly after the robbery. Michael Akin, director of the Shelton Communications Center, testified that the tape was a true and ac- curate one before Schuetz played it for the jury. On it Martin is heard saying that "Some big guy named Leo- nard just socked me in the face and took my jacket" and the dis- patcher is heard telling police of- ficers that Martin was "threatened with a knife by Leo- nard Norling." JUDGE SAWYER then read into the record a statement agreed upon by Schuetz and Woodrow indicating that Norling had been previously convicted of attempting to intimidate Beasley and Martin a few weeks after Martin was robbed. Schuetz then rested the state's case and Woodrow Called Earl Dunning of Shelton to the stand. Dunning, the manager of the Lawton Apartments, went over pictures and diagrams of the buildings and described how there are two gates to the com- plex. He said he and his wife were home the night of the robbery but didn't hear any commotion. Woodrow then rested for the defense. IN HIS CLOSING remarks Schuetz said Norling used "force or fear" to steal the coat, these be- ing one of elements of robbery in the first degree. He described Norling knocking Martin to the ground. "When he gets up out comes the knife and he's told, 'Give me the coat.' That is the force or fear there," Schuetz said. Woodrow challenged the cred- ibility of Martin and Beasley. He said that Martin has two convic- tions for theft and was smirking while he described the robbery. He also reminded the jury that Martin had hit Norling with a shovel and a board earlier on January 12. "We know there was bad blood between those two people. That was testified to by Mr. Martin. A NEW MILLENIUM A NEW BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS A NEW BEGINNING Iusincss as usual is not, going to be usual business. We ileed a change ... In perception, In appearance, In budgeting, In actions A commissioner that will listen to the taxpayers, form a citizens advisory committee, work to build District 5 back up and take away the negative perception. Wc don't need more appointed commissioners. " We just need one that will work with the others and be the voice for the District's constituents. NOVEMBER 2ND VOTE FOR A CHANGE... DAVIID TAGYE FIRE COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5 Paid for by the citizens to elect David Tagye Fire.. Commissioner, 290 Rd. of Tralee, Shelton, WA 98584 pullover When you strike somebody with a shovel and then you strike some- body with a board then that ex- hibits animosity between two people," he said. Woodrow suggested the fight might have given Martin a reason to lie about the robbery and point- ed out that Beasley lied when she told police that she didn't know anything about the coat. "If she would lie then she could lie here. There's no difference," Woodrow said. Jurors were Virginia Fadden, Tracy West, Roger Burmaster, Margaret Ledbetter, Shari Alex- ander, Kord Lofthus, Howard [ Garner, Sandra Gustin, Anita [ Bjornstedt, Jeanette Hauser, Tammy Johnson and Anthony Bo- lar-Softich. Karen Everett was the alternate juror. Call 426-3163 [ Guaranteed Quality * Monday-Friday 8-5 I I II I I IIII I II III Page 18 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, October 14, 1999 with the contractor. The Journal the bid ect, which extends Simpson sort Bingham Creek awarded early in the once work had begun, tractor bid on other eluding work on the 101 slides in the countY. The paving was only from the sort yard to L e watzel before the pull-, At this point, would reco of' commissioners ages against Wilder to complete the projc time frame specific tract. Firefighters Local fire districtS - continually need help, call the ,buse?nt. your local fire aep VOTE WISELY Elect CAROLYN Commissioner of Paid for by Carolyn Kerr for Commissioner of Finance, 501 WA 98584 • 426-2356. for Get rates as tow as 7.50% -'"AW* art modets between 1993 & 2000 -- ths This tow rate with terms up to 72 $0m,.. from Peninsula Community Federa[ CreCllt Union. Choose from Parr Auto's huge setection of quality cars and The best of their used car inventorY in downtown Betfair at special event