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Los Ange­les Times

Seat­tle, WA

Feb­ru­ary 26, 2010 | 2:12 p.m.

SEATTLE (AP) — DNA evi­dence has led Seat­tle police to arrest an Everett man in what may be one of the department’s old­est cold cases.

A detec­tive arrested 73-year-old Sam Pietro Evans on Thurs­day for inves­ti­ga­tion in the 1972 rob­bery and shoot­ing death of Jack­son Sch­ley and the kid­nap­ping and rape of his wife. Work at a State Patrol crime lab gave police enough infor­ma­tion to make an arrest.

Detec­tive Mike Ciesynksi told The Seat­tle Times that even though the sus­pect is old and infirm, he’s still dan­ger­ous. Evans is sched­uled for a Fri­day bail hear­ing in King County Supe­rior Court.

Inves­ti­ga­tors also are inves­ti­gat­ing Evans in con­nec­tion with an unsolved killing of a man dur­ing a 1968 rob­bery in Seat­tle and the slay­ing of a woman in the early 1970s in Pasco.

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Infor­ma­tion from: The Seat­tle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com

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The News Tri­bune (Tacoma, Wash­ing­ton)
BYLINE: ADAM LYNN; Staff writer

Pierce County, WA

Pierce County pros­e­cu­tors on Tues­day filed a mis­de­meanor charge of unlaw­ful pub­lic expo­sure against a bikini barista spot­ted last year serv­ing cof­fee while wear­ing only pasties on her breasts.

It’s the first time Pierce County pros­e­cu­tors have lev­eled such a charge since some area espresso stand own­ers began requir­ing their baris­tas to show skin in addi­tion to mak­ing drinks.

Charged was Megan Eliz­a­beth Lenn, 19. She will be issued a sum­mons to appear in court dur­ing the next few weeks, deputy pros­e­cu­tor Kevin Ben­ton said.

Ben­ton said he charged Lenn because her alleged con­duct, if true, would con­sti­tute “a blan­tant vio­la­tion” of the county ordi­nance ban­ning pub­lic nudity.

Efforts to reach her or the own­ers of the Bikini Bot­toms espresso stand where she works were unsuccessful.

A woman dri­ving by the stand at 7919 176th St. E. on Oct. 7 called sheriff’s deputies after she spot­ted Lenn out­side the stand. She was wear­ing a thong bikini bot­tom and no top, accord­ing to court records.

A deputy dis­patched to inves­ti­gate the call found Lenn inside the stand mak­ing drinks, accord­ing to an arrest report.

Lenn was top­less but had X-shaped pasties cov­er­ing her nip­ples, the report states.

Lenn became angry when told she would be cited for inde­cent expo­sure and began to yell that baris­tas at other stands also wore pasties on the job, deputy Kevin Fries wrote in his report.

“I asked Lenn if she was aware that it was ille­gal to wear the pasties in pub­lic,” Fries wrote. “She said no. Lenn said that the female owner, Cheryl Eng­land, had told her and the other girls that it was OK to wear them.”

Lenn then went into the back of the stand, removed the pasties and put on a bikini top, Fries continued.

The deputy con­fis­cated the pasties and booked them into the South Hill precinct prop­erty room as evi­dence, his report states.

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Van­cou­ver, WA

VANCOUVER — After a 12 month inves­ti­ga­tion, Van­cou­ver Police announced today the ter­mi­na­tion of one of their own officers.

Cpl. Randy Braaksma is accused of mis­han­dling evi­dence, includ­ing tak­ing drug evi­dence to his per­sonal res­i­dence where he held the para­phe­nilia for up to a year.

As a result, the Clark County pros­e­cut­ing attorney’s office declined to pros­e­cute the sus­pect in the case involv­ing the evidence.

In another case, Braaksma reported seiz­ing cash and drugs dur­ing the arrest of a sus­pect, but the evi­dence was not sub­mit­ted to the VPD evi­dence facil­ity until six months later.

Addi­tional cases were also dis­cov­ered in which Cpl. Braaksma mis­han­dled evi­dence in the course of the investigation.

“The actions of Cpl. Braaksma doc­u­mented in this inves­ti­ga­tion are com­pletely unac­cept­able,” said Police Chief Cliff Cook in a release from the depart­ment today.

“Tak­ing home drug evi­dence and repeat­edly mis­han­dling evi­dence that could oth­er­wise be used to help take crim­i­nals off the street can not be tol­er­ated in the Van­cou­ver Police Depart­ment,” Cook added.

After Braaksma was noti­fied of the alle­ga­tions against him in Feb­ru­ary 2009, he filed a Tort Claim Notice with the City of Van­cou­ver indi­cat­ing he intended to file suit against the city.

The Van­cou­ver Police Depart­ment is res­olute in its inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion process and find­ings, and in the dis­ci­pli­nary actions taken.

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