A suspected burglar who had been on the run from the law last December was sent to prison.
Justin Arnold, a 25-year-old Oak Harbor man, pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court to trafficking in stolen property.
A judge reduced the bail last week of an Oak Harbor Cub Scout leader accused of raping and molesting boys, but the defendant hasn’t been able to bail out.
Attorney Sharon Fields of Mount Vernon successfully argued during a hearing in Island County Superior Court last week that bail should be reduced for her client, 30-year-old Anthony Polubinski.
Detectives with the Island County Sheriff’s Office are asking the public for help identifying three suspects who committed an unsuccessful home-invasion robbery in the Oak Harbor area just after midnight Tuesday.
Three masked burglars, one of whom was brandishing what appeared to be a handgun, forced their way into a Wedgewood Lane home and threatened the four occupants, who were all men in their 20s, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
Oak Harbor Mayor Scott Dudley is taking time off work earlier than expected in order to donate an organ to a Canadian.
Dudley had been planning to leave work for about three weeks late this summer to go under the knife. But the man who needs the kidney isn’t doing well and doctors moved the surgery ahead to May 14.
Island County Commissioner Kelly Emerson nearly forfeited her office by accident last week, but was saved by the county’s auditor.
One of two burglars caught inside a rural Oak Harbor home by the returning resident was sentenced to jail Monday.
Nicholas Blodgett, a 29-year-old Oak Harbor resident, pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court to residential burglary and resisting arrest.
A former youth coordinator at Oak Harbor Lutheran Church was arrested Thursday for allegedly raping and molesting two boys, one of whom he met through the church.
Detectives with the Oak Harbor Police Department had previously investigated 57-year-old Ronald Asplund for similar allegations six years ago and are concerned there may be more victims.
Whidbey Island lost part of its history Saturday, April 28.
Oak Harbor resident Wilma Patrick, a driving forces behind the creation of Whidbey General Hospital and wife of late Judge Howard Patrick, passed away. She was 92 years old.
Wilma continued to be involved with the hospital, her church and community even as she became a lively nonagenarian. She is mourned by her many friends and supporters on the island.
Oak Harbor Police Chief Rick Wallace doesn’t want to retire at the end of June and he will sue the city if the mayor forces him to, according to a letter his attorney delivered to the city.
Mayor Scott Dudley, however, said he has no plans to let the chief stay on after June 30.
The letter, written by attorney Christon Skinner of Oak Harbor, indicates that Dudley threatened Wallace with termination if he didn’t retire this summer. Dudley, who ran as a reformer, also fired the city administrator, the city attorney and the fire chief in a housecleaning move shortly after taking office in January.
It took a lot of work to get to this point, but Oak Harbor leaders have finally narrowed the prospective sites for the new wastewater treatment plant to just two.
Members of the city council adopted a resolution last week that identifies Windjammer Park and “Crescent Harbor North” as the sites which will be further evaluated by the engineering firm hired by the city. The decision comes after more than two years and four public meetings, six city council workshops, nine formal city council meetings and dozens of committee meetings at which the issue was discussed.
A 30-year-old homeless man is accused of hiding in a German tourist’s RV to cross to Coupeville in a ferry, breaking into a couple of homes next to the ferry dock and drinking stolen booze until he passed out, court documents indicate.
Samuel Olmstead pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court March 26 to two counts of residential burglary. He’s being held on $100,000 bail.
A dozen people came brandishing cheap sombreros and baseball caps, but Oak Harbor City Council members postponed the showdown over proper attire, free speech and parliamentary procedure.
A 50-year-old Oak Harbor woman was sentenced to jail for forging a legal document to falsely claim that her deceased mother had bequeathed the family farm to her, court documents indicate.
Shannan Marrs pleaded guilty in Island County Superior Court April 10 to one count of perjury in the first degree.
Marrs received a first-time offender waiver, under which a judge can sentence a person convicted of his or her first felony offense to less than the standard sentence range. The judge sentenced her to 60 days in jail and ordered her to pay $817 in fines and fees.
