A 35-year-old Oak Harbor man who police originally arrested in connection with a bar fight was recently sent to prison for dealing cocaine.
Island County Superior Court Judge Vickie Churchill sentenced Robert Devon Smith Dec. 6 to one year and eight months in prison on the drug-related charge.
Island County commissioners are scheduled to consider increases in building permit and land-use fees for the third time in two years.
The attorney for a 20-year-old Oak Harbor woman may claim that mismatched tires caused a Sept. 3 accident that killed three people on North Whidbey.
A 66-year-old Oak Harbor woman who was rescued from a fire in Oak Harbor Nov. 4 has been charged with setting the blaze, court documents indicate.
A 24-year-old Oak Harbor man who broke into an apartment to beat his ex-girlfriend in October was recently sent to prison.
After the New Year, the Board of Island County Commissioners will have a new leader.
The three county commissioners unanimously named Island County Commissioner Angie Homola as the new chairwoman of the board. Homola, a Democrat, represents the area around Oak Harbor.
A 26-year-old Freeland man got out of jail early this year and immediately went to an Oak Harbor motel to meet with a teenager a judge had barred him from contacting, according to court documents.
A 42-year-old Oak Harbor woman is accused of lying about her family’s earnings in order to receive welfare, court documents indicate.
Lisa Latta pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court Nov. 15 to charges of first-degree theft, second-degree perjury and welfare — false public assistance verification.
A 29-year-old Oak Harbor man is wanted on a $10,000 warrant for allegedly raping a child, court documents indicate.
Island County Superior Court Judge Alan Hancock authorized the warrant after the defendant, Charles Arik, didn’t appear at a Nov. 29 hearing. Arik was charged Nov. 10 with the rape of a child in the third degree, a sex offense that carries a standard sentencing range of a year to a year and two months in prison.
The state Attorney General’s Office is attempting to have a man who committed a home-invasion rape on South Whidbey 13 years ago classified as a “sexually violent predator” and confined indefinitely to the McNeil Island special commitment center.
A split opinion by the Washington State Supreme Court likely means another trial in a lawsuit over the 1995 death of Edward Gregoire, a 23-year-old man who hanged himself in the Oak Harbor Jail after being arrested on a misdemeanor traffic warrant.
Responding the concerns about privacy and safety, Island County Assessor Dave Mattens decided to take down photographs of homes from the office’s online database.
Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can quickly and easily view photos of Microsoft billionaire Steve Ballmer’s odd collection of properties and houses on Central Whidbey or U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s summer home at Lagoon Point.
