A look at the felony cases filed by the KCPAO, April 14
Occasionally, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office receives questions about the types of felony cases we file.
To share some examples, we took a look at all the felony cases filed on Wednesday, April 14. The details on each case were provided by police investigators.
21–1–02610–1
Assault In The Second Degree — Domestic Violence
The defendant was angry about messages his girlfriend received on her phone and punched her in the face, knocking her off her feet. He then kicked her head and torso, and lied to police officers who responded saying she fell off a bar stool. Hours later in a recorded jail call, the defendant admitted that he snapped when he beat her. The victim had broken ribs from the attack. The defendant’s mother posted his bail. He has a history of reckless driving amended from DUI in 2007.
21–1–02609–8
Assault In The Second Degree — Domestic Violence
Assault In The Third Degree — Domestic Violence
Assault In The Second Degree
The defendant is accused of suddenly entering a Capitol Hill apartment armed with a large knife and swinging it at two people. One grabbed a metal bed frame to defend himself and the other used the refrigerator door for protection. The defendant also swung the knife at their dog. The victim’s girlfriend was said to have been abused multiple times by the victim. The defendant claimed he “accidentally” stabbed her in the neck. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment. The medical staff checked for a hole in her esophagus due to her difficulty swallowing. The defendant has a history with multiple assault convictions and a conviction for theft and drug delivery.
21–1–01920–2
Arson In The First Degree
The defendant doused a hallway and exterior apartment door with gasoline and tried to light it on fire. The apartment was occupied by eight people. The defendant knew it was occupied — he’d been kicked out of a party there earlier. His conduct, investigators said, was motivated by anger and the intention to retaliate against the apartment’s occupants. Fire investigators said if the suspect had been able to light the gasoline, the building’s occupants would have been trapped inside. The defendant’s history includes a conviction for reckless driving, reduced from a DUI charge in Shelton Municipal Court.
21–1–02623–3
Theft Of Motor Vehicle
Attempting To Elude A Pursuing Police Vehicle
The defendant drove over an embankment and landed on top of another vehicle before rolling off. The victim’s vehicle suffered significant damage. Shortly afterward, a 911 dispatcher received a call about a stolen Acura a block north of the accident. The defendant ran several red lights and went an estimated 80 miles per hour on arterials with a Kirkland Police officer behind him with lights and sirens on. There was significant risk of hurting other victims. Acura was found abandoned with flat fires after driving across the yard of a residence. The defendant was seen climbing a fence and walked north on the freeway before being taken into custody. The defendant has a pending DUI case in Kent Municipal Court and was ordered by the court to not drive without an ignition interlock device. He has prior convictions for motor vehicle theft and eluding police.
21–1–02791–4
Domestic Violence Felony Violation Of A Court Order
Unlawful Imprisonment — Domestic Violence
The defendant kept his girlfriend from leaving their shared apartment. Bystanders intervened to stop him from pursuing her after she struggled and broke free. Hours after being released at his first appearance by a judge, the defendant returned and assaulted the same victim in violation of a no-contact order. That violation of the no-contact order is the second criminal count in this case.
21–1–03200–4
Assault In The Second Degree — Domestic Violence
The defendant is accused of stabbing his girlfriend in the leg when she could not respond to him because she was in shock from being punched in the jaw. Both the stabbing and the punch were witnessed by the woman’s 8-year-old son. The defendant screamed at him to stop crying and called the boy a derogatory term. The woman told officers the defendant assaulted her more than 12 times over the last three years and had poked her with a knife on several occasions. Police said the victim was scared that the defendant might be waiting for her outside of the emergency room. His criminal history includes convictions for inflicting corporal injury, battery, felony petty theft, felony robbery and grant theft, among other convictions.
21–1–03295–1
Unlawful Possession of a Firearm in the First Degree
The defendant was found lying on his back near the north side of a ramp to State Route 167 holding a gun. He refused to drop it and appeared to be inserting a magazine and racking the slide continuously. He also stood up at one point while holding the gun, but shortly after fell down. He finally dropped the gun and walked west on the onramp and eventually became compliant after the use of a less-lethal launcher. Auburn Police recovered the Glock handgun, which the defendant was ordered by a court not to have because of prior felony conviction. His criminal history includes a conviction for robbery and theft. The defendant was released on his personal recognizance at his first appearance hearing.
21–1–03201–2
Residential Burglary — Domestic Violence
Assault In The Third Degree — Domestic Violence
Assault In The Fourth Degree
During an argument with his on-and-off-again girlfriend, this defendant shoved her 4-year-old daughter out of a non-moving car, then drove off in a reckless and danger manner with his girlfriend still hanging onto the car. She fell to the pavement and hit her head. While she was receiving medical treatment prior to his arrest, the defendant burglarized her home. The defendant has a conviction history that includes assault and malicious mischief and also has a pending reckless driving and driving with a suspended license case out of Tacoma.
21–1–03198–9
Unlawful Imprisonment — Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence Felony Violation Of A Court Order
The defendant hit his wife in the back or her head despite an active no-contact order issued out of Kent for her protection. The victim told police that after he hit her in the head, the defendant stood in the doorway and wouldn’t let her leave the bathroom for about an hour. She was eventually able to leave — but had to leave her children behind with the defendant as she was calling police. The defendant has a conviction history that includes a previous assault of the same victim, multiple unlawful gun possession convictions, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest.
21–1–03199–7
Domestic Violence Felony Violation Of A Court Order
The defendant’s mother has an active no-contact order against the defendant prohibiting him from entering her home. He’d been residing there anyway. The defendant ripped a door off the hinges, broke the door handle to her bedroom, and threw the door down the stairs. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office alerted a judge to his concerning escalation of violence and blatant disregard for previous court orders. The defendant has a conviction history that includes two previous no-contact order violations, malicious mischief, reckless driving and drugs.
Here are previous examples of daily felony case summaries:
This post is not expected to be updated. Additional details on each case can be found through the King County Electronic Court Records System using the case numbers at the top of each summary.
