A man who volunteered in the drama department at Coupeville schools killed himself after being arrested for possessing child pornography, according to the Island County Sheriff’s Office.
Detective Ed Wallace said the FBI provided the sheriff’s office and the Coupeville Marshal’s Office with initial information that 56-year-old Coupeville resident Charles Skow was in possession of child pornography.
No matter how you slice it, the Island County general fund levy is low or the lowest when compared to other counties.
Dan Jones, the levy analyst for the county assessor’s office, recently gave the county commissioners a PowerPoint presentation to address misconceptions about property taxes and rate comparisons. He looked at tax rates, taxes per capita and total levy amounts.
A 26-year-old Oak Harbor man was seriously injured in a one-car accident Sunday night.
Oak Harbor Police Chief Rick Wallace said Adam Sims was driving a 2003 Dodge Durango east on Crosby Road at an estimated 80 miles per hour.
Whidbey Island residents turned in nearly 250 pounds of pills during a one-day, drug take-back program last month.
The program, sponsored by the DEA and Whidbey law enforcement agencies, allows people to safely dispose of medication. It’s aimed at reducing the abuse of prescription pills while protecting the environment from potential pollutants.
A 26-year-old Oak Harbor man was seriously injured in a one-car accident Sunday night. Oak Harbor Police Chief Rick Wallace…
Last November, Oak Harbor police responded to a report that a Navy man was armed with a .40-caliber pistol and had threatened to “blow his own head off,” according to court documents.
A 26-year-old Oak Harbor man previously convicted of possessing child pornography is now facing a child rape charge, according to court documents.
Prosecutors charged Daniel Daly in Island County Superior Court April 20 with the rape of a child in the third degree. Under the definition of the charge, he’s accused of having sex with a child younger than 16 years old.
A jury in Island County Superior Court found 22-year-old Oak Harbor resident Jordyn Weichert guilty of three counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular assault after brief deliberations Tuesday morning.
The jurors, however, found that Weichert was guilty of the least-serious category or “prong” of the charges, which is defined as “disregard for the safety of others.”
No cattle were injured at an unusual accident in the field with the so-called “cow crater” near Coupeville Thursday evening.
Witnesses reported a roll-over accident after seeing a pickup truck lose control on Highway 20 just west of Sherman Road and plummet down an embankment toward a walking trail and the field of cows.
The the truck didn’t roll, but just kept on truckin’.
A 23-year-old Oak Harbor woman who was a passenger in one of two vehicles involved in a North Whidbey accident that killed three people last year pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide charges on the day before her trial was set to begin.
But the trial against her co-defendant and driver of the vehicle, 21-year-old Jordyn Weichert, started Tuesday as scheduled and is expected to continue into next week. She is facing three counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of vehicular assault in connection with the Sept. 3 collision.
Island County is going into the business of treating people with substance abuse problems.
One pill may send a 41-year-old Oak Harbor man to prison.
Shaun Jackson may face a charge of possession of a controlled substance after a Department of Corrections investigator searched his backpack and found a single Valium pill, court documents state.
A 23-year-old Oak Harbor man is facing a felony charge and possible prison time after allegedly violating a no-contact order banning him from seeing his ex-wife, court documents indicate.
