Posted on 11/29/2009 10:39:12 PM PST by Jack Black
Police surround Seattle home where person of interest in police shooting may be hiding A SWAT team and police negotiators surrounded a Leschi home in Seattle where the man sought for questioning in the Lakewood police shooting may be hiding. By Seattle Times staff A SWAT team and police negotiators surrounded a Leschi home in Seattle where the man sought for questioning in the Lakewood police shooting may be hiding. Police responded to the home at East Yesler Way and 32nd Avenue South where police stopped a woman who was leaving the home. She told them Maurice Clemmons was on the property and bleeding, according to a law enforcement source. The woman told police that someone had dropped Clemmons off at the home. The source also said police had received tips about two other properties they needed to search, in Queen Anne and Renton. At 8:44 p.m., Seattle police received information that the person of interest may be in a Leschi home, according to Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel. Police are now trying to confirm the identity of the person inside. Police blocked off the street at East Yesler and 30th Avenue South. Police are telling residents to stay indoors and keep their doors locked.
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Cripes! Thanks for the link. Going to check it out now.
"OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said Wednesday the state won't accept any more parolees from Arkansas until she's assured of a better system for sending them back. Officials in Washington and Arkansas have been sparring over who had responsibility for Maurice Clemmons who killed four Lakewood police officers Sunday at a Parkland coffee. Clemmons was shot to death early Tuesday by a Seattle police officer.
At issue is a warrant that Arkansas officials issued for Clemmons. Arkansas corrections officials say the warrant should have been enough to keep Clemmons in jail on an earlier Pierce County charge. But Washington officials say it wasn't handled properly in Arkansas."
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"A witness told Pierce County sheriff’s detectives that Clemmons told friends and family gathered for Thanksgiving dinner at his aunt’s home in Pacific that he planned to kill “cops, children at a school” and “as many people as he could in an intersection,” according to an affidavit filed by prosecutors.
"A woman who lives in the house told detectives that before he left Clemmons said “he was going with a girl, he was going to rest and he was going to heal but he wasn’t done,” the affidavit states."
SHOOTING FOLLOW: Gregoire suspends parolee compact with Arkansas
"Gov. Chris Gregoire told reporters in Tumwater this morning she is suspending an interstate compact or agreement with the state of Arkansas that lets paroled offenders be supervised in the other state.
"The trigger was a dispute between Washington and Arkansas over an unenforceable warrant Arkansas issued in October for the arrest of Maurice Clemmons, the presumed killer of four Lakewood police officers on Sunday who later was himself shot and killed Tuesday by a Seattle officer.
"It's possible Clemmons would never have been released a week ago from custody as he awaited trial on a child-rape and other charges. The suspension will last until the state can sort out the disagreement and problem in this case, according to John Dodge, our reporter who was in Tumwater for Gregoire's announcement on restructuring natural-resources agencies.
"Here's Dodge's summary of what Gregoire had to say:
"She announced she has suspended the interstate compact between Washington and Arkansas, which allows for movement of parolees from one state into the other state's parole system. She announced she will attend the memorial service for the four slain officers 1 p.m., Tuesday in the Tacoma Dome. She said she was offended by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's initial reaction to the shootings, suggesting lapses in this state's law enforcement/ judicial handling of the case. Since then Huckabee has retracted some of his earlier comments, she said. "I can only imagine the remorse he's feeling," she said of his decision to pardon the cop killer. Gregoire said she's reviewed 90 petitions from convicted felons seeking pardons, and approved 26 of them. "It's one of the toughest decisions you ever face as a governor," she said.
Good on her for jabbing Huckabee, and I have never understood the harebrained practice of paroling felons from one state to another anyway. I suppose it’s to send them home to their families, but one state’s trash becomes another state’s criminal felon on the loose.
I didn’t know states shared paroles until this. Adds another dynamic to the criminal/prisoner scene between states. Dumping their trash on each other etc.
If you have a chance read the letter this piece of meat wrote to the govenor of AK. He truly knows how to work the system and did it well. I’ve read everything I can and see a number of places where the system breaks down.
I am going to post some new stuff in the next post...
New info if you are interested....
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If anyone can come up with an address where Clemmons lived, please share.
Just for the popcorn element.
Ok it did not work, but if you choose Pierce County and then 774 132nd street south, it will work. That is an elementary school right across the street. Just wow.
Yes! Thank you. I apologize to AK.
Dear Lord. Those videos creep me out.
I am at work and cannot watch them here, but later or tomorrow I will.
Say what?!?
“...His employment history reveals a series of menial jobs, but public records show he owned three homes in Pierce County, and raised a total of $42,000 to bail out of jail three times between May and November of this year...”
The above from the clemmons involved in drug ring link you posted above.
It just keeps getting worse and worse...
“...Clemmons claimed to own five houses – four in Washington, one in Arkansas, according to his statements in court records. Searches of Washington property records show Clemmons owned three properties in Pierce County, purchased in 2008. He took loans against two of them on July 24, 2009 – the same day he posted $190,000 in bail bonds...”
From your Cop Killer sank into debt to bail out three times from Pierce County Jail link. The connection with drug operations seems very likely imho.
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