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Corruption now focus of FBI probe in Tacoma TACOMA, Wash. Federal agents are investigating allegations of police corruption and illegal business transactions, including bribery and kickbacks, by government officials in Tacoma, a newspaper reported Thursday. The inquiry by the FBI's public-corruption unit stems from numerous tips and leads uncovered by Washington State Patrol investigators who have been reviewing circumstances surrounding the murder-suicide of Tacoma Police Chief David Brame. There's not a lot of turnover in local government in Tacoma, FBI Special Agent Mark Ferbrache told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. There are a lot of relationships built over time, and that's where...

Police Say Tacoma Chief Kills Wife, Self The Associated Press Apr 26 2003 10:49PM GIG HARBOR, Wash. (AP) - Tacoma Police Chief David Brame was killed and his wife was injured in an apparent murder-suicide attempt Saturday, a day after abuse allegations in the couple's divorce case were publicized in media reports. ``The probability is strong that the chief shot his wife and then himself,'' Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said. Brame was pronounced dead at 5:52 p.m. at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma, Troyer said. His wife, Crystal, was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle in...