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Man found naked in brush shed:
.00eve-sconvi00-ed of burglary Two enter plea ,:han.ge 2
In second degree at jury trial before c00ases go l:o tn
Two defendants changed their maintains his innocence but cause it suggests tohitlsL't
pleas to guilty in Mason County thinks the evidence against him aren't taking full reSP 1'
Robert Ronald Reeves, 37, of
722 West Pine Street, Shelton,
was convicted Thursday of bur-.
glary in the second degree after a
one-day trial in Mason County
Superior Court.
He was arrested August 7 after
he was found naked in a ware-
house at Mill Creek Evergreens
in Shelton. Judge James Sawyer
scheduled sentencing for October
28.
Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold
Schuetz called Miguel Brambila-
Cisneros to the stand as the first
witness for the state. Karen Horn
served as a translator of" the
Spanish and English languages.
Brambila-Cisneros testified
that he was employed packing
brush and counting cones at Mill
Creek on the day of Reeves' ar-
rest. "The day before I had closed
it up," he said. He explained that
he had a master key to all the
doors but was unable to get into
the warehouse when he came to
work on the morning of August 7
because a shovel had been used to
block the door.
"I HAD NOT placed a shovel
diagonally there," he said.
Brambila-Cisneros told the
jury that while the shovel pre-
vented him tYom opening tile door
he was able pry open the door
enough to h)ok inside. He said he
was able to s,c a man
"e, inside who
was naked from the waist up.
"I saw that much, that he
didn't have a shirt on," he said.
"First of all I was very afraid." He
said he closed the door, locked it
and then told the manager of the
business about the intruder. He
said Daniel Johnson called the
Mason County Sheriff's Office on
his truck radio.
Brambila-Cisneros then went
over some photographs that
showed pallets and boxes knocked
over that hadn't been knocked
over the night before. "Everything
was all turned upside down," he
said.
Cross-examined by defense at-
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torney Ronald Sergi, he testified
that he noticed the tires on a
trailer were flat. "I was just so
afraid I saw that they were flat
and that's all," he said.
SCHUETZ THEN called
Michelle Wiktorek of Shelton, the
receptionist at the floral ever-
greens firm, to the stand. She
said she got to work after Bram-
bila-Cisneros. "I observed Miguel
standing out in the parking lot
and I thought that was a bit unu-
sual," she said.
Wiktorek said several deputies
arrived shortly after she got
there.
She said Reeves had been in
the office asking for a job applica-
tion on the day before his arrest.
She then testified that as the
deputies were taking Reeves
away she noticed that several pal-
lets of boxes had been knocked
over. She said she saw powder
from the fire extinguishers and
foam spilled all over and noticed
that two big garbage cans full of
liquid foam had been dumped
over and spilled on the floor.
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a fiat tire and a scale appeared to
have been broken.
Schuetz then called Johnson to
the stand. He said he called the
sheriffs office on his cellular
phone after Brambila-Cisneros
told him that he had seen an in-
truder. Johnson described the in-
terior of the warehouse as "a
disaster."
Schuetz then called Deputy
Kenneth J. Potts to the stand. He
said he was dispatched to Mill
Creek Evergreens on the morning
of August 7. "I heard that there
was a serious situation going on,"
he said.
Potts said he and other law of-
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one of the doors with three other
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"I HEARD a lot of different
commotion - talking," Potts said.
"It was to the point where we al-
most thought there was two peo-
ple inside." But Potts said he
found only one person inside and
talked the intruder into surren-
dering. "He didn't have any
clothes on whatsoever," he said.
Questioned by Sergi, he said he
did not talk to Reeves or ask him
where his clothes were.
Schuetz then called Sergeant
Virgil Pentz of the Shelton Police
Department to the stand. He said
he too heard banging inside the
warehouse and helped deputies
search the building. "The inside of
the building looked like a tornado
had hit it. It was trashed," he
said. He said that when he first
saw Reeves he "was naked and he
was on top of a pallet."
Under cross-examination by
Sergi he testified that he didn't
see any of the damage being done.
Shelton Police Officer Greg
Crivello testified to assisting in
the apprehension of the defend-
ant. Schuetz then rested for the
state. Sergi rested for the defense
without calling any witnesses.
IN HIS CLOSING remarks
Sergi said the state didn't prove
that Reeves committed a crime
while inside the warehouse.
"There was no testimony or any
evidence that Mr. Reeves was re-
sponsible for the condition the
warehouse was found in," Sergi
said.
The jurors disagreed and found
Reeves guilty as charged at the
end of the day's proceedings. The
jurors were Harry Linker, Jay
Ringland, Robert Johnson, Alan
McDowell, Amanda Olsen, Eric
Eaton, Donald Wass, Amy
Richardson, Douglas Moshier,
Stacy Johnston, John Canaan
and Walter Erickson.
Superior Court last week rather
than going to trial. In court pro-
ceedings on Thursday:
Michele J. Adams, 41, of
2270 Lake Flora Road, Port
Orchard, pied guilty to conspiracy
to manufacture methampheta-
mine. "On June 21st in Mason
County I aided another in the
manufacture of methampheta-
mine," she wrote in the statement
that accompanied her guilty plea.
Judge Toni Sheldon scheduled
sentencing for October 8.
Richard Deno Jr., 43, of
Tahuya made an Alford plea of
guilty to two counts of child mo-
lestation in the second degree.
Deano changed his plea to
guilty after Deputy Prosecutor
Reinhold Schuetz said he would
not file 10 more charges of child
molestation in the case.
An Alford plea means Deno
Guilty verdict in one-day trial:
Fry burglarized Belfair
tow firm, jury decides
James Fry, 35, of East 18320
Highway 106, Belfair, was found
guilty Tuesday of burglary in the
second degree after a one-day
trial in Mason County Superior
Court.
Testimony lasted about two
hours in the afternoon after jury
selection. Deputy Prosecutor
Scott Kee called two witnesses to
the stand and defense attorney
Ronald Sergi rested the case for
Fry without calling any witness-
es.
Judge Toni Sheldon scheduled
sentencing for October 21.
FRY WAS ARRESTED on
August 6 after an employee saw
him in Belfair Paint and Tow af-
ter closing time. The business is
now a towing.company at NE
23589 State Route 3, Belfair.
Kee called William Mathes of
Belfair to testify as the state's
first witness. He said he'd been
working at the shop on August 5
and that he returned there short-
ly after 2 a.m. on August 6. "I'd
been out drinking so I stopped
there instead of driving home. I
slept there," Mathes said.
At Kee's request he drew a dia-
gram of the office area. He said
he used his key to get in through
the front door and locked it be-
hind him and then went to sleep
upstairs for a couple of hours.
- "What woke me up is I heard a
noise," he said
HE SAID WHEN he went
downstairs he saw Fry standing
by the office where the owner and
the manager kept their desks.
"He was taking off a stocking
mask," he said.
He said he's known Fry for a
few years and considered him a
friend. He said Fry would help
one of the other employees with
auto body work. According to
Mathes, the defendant admitted
that he was in some trouble. "He
said he was coming to get a wind-
shield for his girlfriend's car,"
Mathes said.
Mathes said Fry told him he
had jumped over a fence around
the body shop and had broken in
a door with a crowbar. "The frame
and the latch on it was broken,"
Mathes said.
Mathes said he then called the
Mason County Sheriffs Office
first and then called John Ring,
the owner of the shop. He said
that deputies got there before
Ring.
Under cross-examination by
Sergi he said that he and Fry
were friends and that when he
saw him there were no lights on
in the office and the office door
was closed. He also testified that
his statement to the deputies
made no mention of a windshield.
KEE THEN CALLED Ring to
the stand. He said that he had
about eight people working there
in August and that Mathes was a
part-time employee. "Bill called
me from my shop and he told me
he had just caught Jim Fry
breaking in," he said.
Ring said that Fry worked at
the shop on occasion and that
Mathes was giving a statement to
a sheriffs deputy when he arrived
at the shop. Ring said he inspect-
ed the shop and found a door
pried open and the fence smashed
down by a big plank that was ly-
ing on it.
Ring testified that he checked
his desk and found that two sets
of keys and an envelope with
$300 in it were missing.
Under cross-examination by
Sergi he testified that the door
from his shop to his office is not
locked and that Fry didn't keep
any tools at the shop. "I don't ever
recall Mr. Fry having his own
tools," Ring said.
AT THIS POINT the state
rested and so did the defense.
In his closing remarks Kee said
that having an intention to com-
mit a crime is one of the elements
of burglary in the second degree.
Without intent a defendant might
otherwise be convicted of the less-
o pnOu-e--or court roun00u-:Ll p er crime of criminal trespass in
the first degree.
"It's the state's position that all
Two identified the factors were there to indicate
on that he was there to commit a
potential charges
A Belfair man was identified
Tuesday in Mason County Superi-
or Court in an investigation of
burglary in the second degree.
Judge Toni Sheldon found
probable cause for the arrest of
William Blaine Whitehead, 35,
of 23171 NE State Route 3, Bel-
fair. She appointed Ronald Sergi
to be his defense attorney and set
bail at $5,000. Arraignment was
scheduled for October 21.
Whitehead was arrested Mon-
day after a deputy from the Ma-
son County Sheriff's Office re-
sponded to the report of a bur-
glary at 19550 State Route 106
near Belfair.
Also on Tuesday:
* Tracy J. Kepner, 21, of
Judge Sheldon appointed Sergi
to be her defense attorney and
found probable cause for her ar-
rest.
Kepner was arrested early
Tuesday morning after sheriffs
deputies responded to a report of
domestic violence at 7200 Grape-
view Loop Road, Grapeview. She
allegedly trashed the house and
smashed the windshield of a car
owned by Joseph Allen, according
to the arresting officer's state-
ment of probable cause. The judge
ordered Kepner released on per-
sonal recognizance pending ar-
raignment on October 21.
crime. If he was there commit a
crime you have to find him guilty
of burglary in the second degree,"
Kee said.
In his closing statement Sergi
questioned the reliability of
Mathes' testimony. "He testified
that he was there to sleep off a
buzz after closing a bar at two
o'clock. He was intoxicated," Sergi
said.
SERGI ALSO said it was dark
inside the office that there was no
indication that anything had been
touched.
The jurors were James Stew-
art, Lorraine McCully, Roy Fear,
Edwin Jouper, Johnny Erec,
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is such that a jury was likely to
convict him of the crimes. "I be-
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guilty if this went to trial. I would
like to take advantage of the
state's offer," Deno wrote in the
statement accompanying his
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"I don't think a judgO. like
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Man found naked in brush shed:
.00eve-sconvi00-ed of burglary Two enter plea ,:han.ge 2
In second degree at jury trial before c00ases go l:o tn
Two defendants changed their maintains his innocence but cause it suggests tohitlsL't
pleas to guilty in Mason County thinks the evidence against him aren't taking full reSP 1'
Robert Ronald Reeves, 37, of
722 West Pine Street, Shelton,
was convicted Thursday of bur-.
glary in the second degree after a
one-day trial in Mason County
Superior Court.
He was arrested August 7 after
he was found naked in a ware-
house at Mill Creek Evergreens
in Shelton. Judge James Sawyer
scheduled sentencing for October
28.
Deputy Prosecutor Reinhold
Schuetz called Miguel Brambila-
Cisneros to the stand as the first
witness for the state. Karen Horn
served as a translator of" the
Spanish and English languages.
Brambila-Cisneros testified
that he was employed packing
brush and counting cones at Mill
Creek on the day of Reeves' ar-
rest. "The day before I had closed
it up," he said. He explained that
he had a master key to all the
doors but was unable to get into
the warehouse when he came to
work on the morning of August 7
because a shovel had been used to
block the door.
"I HAD NOT placed a shovel
diagonally there," he said.
Brambila-Cisneros told the
jury that while the shovel pre-
vented him tYom opening tile door
he was able pry open the door
enough to h)ok inside. He said he
was able to s,c a man
"e, inside who
was naked from the waist up.
"I saw that much, that he
didn't have a shirt on," he said.
"First of all I was very afraid." He
said he closed the door, locked it
and then told the manager of the
business about the intruder. He
said Daniel Johnson called the
Mason County Sheriff's Office on
his truck radio.
Brambila-Cisneros then went
over some photographs that
showed pallets and boxes knocked
over that hadn't been knocked
over the night before. "Everything
was all turned upside down," he
said.
Cross-examined by defense at-
....
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torney Ronald Sergi, he testified
that he noticed the tires on a
trailer were flat. "I was just so
afraid I saw that they were flat
and that's all," he said.
SCHUETZ THEN called
Michelle Wiktorek of Shelton, the
receptionist at the floral ever-
greens firm, to the stand. She
said she got to work after Bram-
bila-Cisneros. "I observed Miguel
standing out in the parking lot
and I thought that was a bit unu-
sual," she said.
Wiktorek said several deputies
arrived shortly after she got
there.
She said Reeves had been in
the office asking for a job applica-
tion on the day before his arrest.
She then testified that as the
deputies were taking Reeves
away she noticed that several pal-
lets of boxes had been knocked
over. She said she saw powder
from the fire extinguishers and
foam spilled all over and noticed
that two big garbage cans full of
liquid foam had been dumped
over and spilled on the floor.
THE TRAILER, she said, had
a fiat tire and a scale appeared to
have been broken.
Schuetz then called Johnson to
the stand. He said he called the
sheriffs office on his cellular
phone after Brambila-Cisneros
told him that he had seen an in-
truder. Johnson described the in-
terior of the warehouse as "a
disaster."
Schuetz then called Deputy
Kenneth J. Potts to the stand. He
said he was dispatched to Mill
Creek Evergreens on the morning
of August 7. "I heard that there
was a serious situation going on,"
he said.
Potts said he and other law of-
ricers sealed the building to make
sure no one could leave or enter
and that he then went through
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"I HEARD a lot of different
commotion - talking," Potts said.
"It was to the point where we al-
most thought there was two peo-
ple inside." But Potts said he
found only one person inside and
talked the intruder into surren-
dering. "He didn't have any
clothes on whatsoever," he said.
Questioned by Sergi, he said he
did not talk to Reeves or ask him
where his clothes were.
Schuetz then called Sergeant
Virgil Pentz of the Shelton Police
Department to the stand. He said
he too heard banging inside the
warehouse and helped deputies
search the building. "The inside of
the building looked like a tornado
had hit it. It was trashed," he
said. He said that when he first
saw Reeves he "was naked and he
was on top of a pallet."
Under cross-examination by
Sergi he testified that he didn't
see any of the damage being done.
Shelton Police Officer Greg
Crivello testified to assisting in
the apprehension of the defend-
ant. Schuetz then rested for the
state. Sergi rested for the defense
without calling any witnesses.
IN HIS CLOSING remarks
Sergi said the state didn't prove
that Reeves committed a crime
while inside the warehouse.
"There was no testimony or any
evidence that Mr. Reeves was re-
sponsible for the condition the
warehouse was found in," Sergi
said.
The jurors disagreed and found
Reeves guilty as charged at the
end of the day's proceedings. The
jurors were Harry Linker, Jay
Ringland, Robert Johnson, Alan
McDowell, Amanda Olsen, Eric
Eaton, Donald Wass, Amy
Richardson, Douglas Moshier,
Stacy Johnston, John Canaan
and Walter Erickson.
Superior Court last week rather
than going to trial. In court pro-
ceedings on Thursday:
Michele J. Adams, 41, of
2270 Lake Flora Road, Port
Orchard, pied guilty to conspiracy
to manufacture methampheta-
mine. "On June 21st in Mason
County I aided another in the
manufacture of methampheta-
mine," she wrote in the statement
that accompanied her guilty plea.
Judge Toni Sheldon scheduled
sentencing for October 8.
Richard Deno Jr., 43, of
Tahuya made an Alford plea of
guilty to two counts of child mo-
lestation in the second degree.
Deano changed his plea to
guilty after Deputy Prosecutor
Reinhold Schuetz said he would
not file 10 more charges of child
molestation in the case.
An Alford plea means Deno
Guilty verdict in one-day trial:
Fry burglarized Belfair
tow firm, jury decides
James Fry, 35, of East 18320
Highway 106, Belfair, was found
guilty Tuesday of burglary in the
second degree after a one-day
trial in Mason County Superior
Court.
Testimony lasted about two
hours in the afternoon after jury
selection. Deputy Prosecutor
Scott Kee called two witnesses to
the stand and defense attorney
Ronald Sergi rested the case for
Fry without calling any witness-
es.
Judge Toni Sheldon scheduled
sentencing for October 21.
FRY WAS ARRESTED on
August 6 after an employee saw
him in Belfair Paint and Tow af-
ter closing time. The business is
now a towing.company at NE
23589 State Route 3, Belfair.
Kee called William Mathes of
Belfair to testify as the state's
first witness. He said he'd been
working at the shop on August 5
and that he returned there short-
ly after 2 a.m. on August 6. "I'd
been out drinking so I stopped
there instead of driving home. I
slept there," Mathes said.
At Kee's request he drew a dia-
gram of the office area. He said
he used his key to get in through
the front door and locked it be-
hind him and then went to sleep
upstairs for a couple of hours.
- "What woke me up is I heard a
noise," he said
HE SAID WHEN he went
downstairs he saw Fry standing
by the office where the owner and
the manager kept their desks.
"He was taking off a stocking
mask," he said.
He said he's known Fry for a
few years and considered him a
friend. He said Fry would help
one of the other employees with
auto body work. According to
Mathes, the defendant admitted
that he was in some trouble. "He
said he was coming to get a wind-
shield for his girlfriend's car,"
Mathes said.
Mathes said Fry told him he
had jumped over a fence around
the body shop and had broken in
a door with a crowbar. "The frame
and the latch on it was broken,"
Mathes said.
Mathes said he then called the
Mason County Sheriffs Office
first and then called John Ring,
the owner of the shop. He said
that deputies got there before
Ring.
Under cross-examination by
Sergi he said that he and Fry
were friends and that when he
saw him there were no lights on
in the office and the office door
was closed. He also testified that
his statement to the deputies
made no mention of a windshield.
KEE THEN CALLED Ring to
the stand. He said that he had
about eight people working there
in August and that Mathes was a
part-time employee. "Bill called
me from my shop and he told me
he had just caught Jim Fry
breaking in," he said.
Ring said that Fry worked at
the shop on occasion and that
Mathes was giving a statement to
a sheriffs deputy when he arrived
at the shop. Ring said he inspect-
ed the shop and found a door
pried open and the fence smashed
down by a big plank that was ly-
ing on it.
Ring testified that he checked
his desk and found that two sets
of keys and an envelope with
$300 in it were missing.
Under cross-examination by
Sergi he testified that the door
from his shop to his office is not
locked and that Fry didn't keep
any tools at the shop. "I don't ever
recall Mr. Fry having his own
tools," Ring said.
AT THIS POINT the state
rested and so did the defense.
In his closing remarks Kee said
that having an intention to com-
mit a crime is one of the elements
of burglary in the second degree.
Without intent a defendant might
otherwise be convicted of the less-
o pnOu-e--or court roun00u-:Ll p er crime of criminal trespass in
the first degree.
"It's the state's position that all
Two identified the factors were there to indicate
on that he was there to commit a
potential charges
A Belfair man was identified
Tuesday in Mason County Superi-
or Court in an investigation of
burglary in the second degree.
Judge Toni Sheldon found
probable cause for the arrest of
William Blaine Whitehead, 35,
of 23171 NE State Route 3, Bel-
fair. She appointed Ronald Sergi
to be his defense attorney and set
bail at $5,000. Arraignment was
scheduled for October 21.
Whitehead was arrested Mon-
day after a deputy from the Ma-
son County Sheriff's Office re-
sponded to the report of a bur-
glary at 19550 State Route 106
near Belfair.
Also on Tuesday:
* Tracy J. Kepner, 21, of
Judge Sheldon appointed Sergi
to be her defense attorney and
found probable cause for her ar-
rest.
Kepner was arrested early
Tuesday morning after sheriffs
deputies responded to a report of
domestic violence at 7200 Grape-
view Loop Road, Grapeview. She
allegedly trashed the house and
smashed the windshield of a car
owned by Joseph Allen, according
to the arresting officer's state-
ment of probable cause. The judge
ordered Kepner released on per-
sonal recognizance pending ar-
raignment on October 21.
crime. If he was there commit a
crime you have to find him guilty
of burglary in the second degree,"
Kee said.
In his closing statement Sergi
questioned the reliability of
Mathes' testimony. "He testified
that he was there to sleep off a
buzz after closing a bar at two
o'clock. He was intoxicated," Sergi
said.
SERGI ALSO said it was dark
inside the office that there was no
indication that anything had been
touched.
The jurors were James Stew-
art, Lorraine McCully, Roy Fear,
Edwin Jouper, Johnny Erec,
Leigh Bacharach, Burton Dun-
can, James Madsen, Richard An-
derson, Ellen Wright, N.E. Dorn-
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is such that a jury was likely to
convict him of the crimes. "I be-
lieve a fact finder would find me
guilty if this went to trial. I would
like to take advantage of the
state's offer," Deno wrote in the
statement accompanying his
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Sentencing Alternative to defend-
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"I don't think a judgO. like
a stealth judge on thinP
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