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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
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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
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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
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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
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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