The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Officer on Monday identified a man found tied up and beaten outside a Graham home Saturday as Dean Barker, 51, of Lakewood.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Officer on Monday identified a man found tied up and beaten outside a Graham home Saturday as Dean Barker, 51, of Lakewood.
The manner of death was ruled homicide, but the cause had yet to be determined, the office said.
Barker’s body was found without identification outside a vacant home in the 22100 block of 124th Avenue East.
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One of eight people accused of kidnapping, robbing and killing a Lakewood man pleaded guilty this afternoon in a deal that would allow him to avoid a murder conviction if he cooperates with authorities.
One of eight people accused of kidnapping, robbing and killing a Lakewood man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a deal that would allow him to avoid a murder conviction if he cooperates with authorities.
Sen. Monty Pearce, R-New Plymouth, says the post-9/11 law that permits indefinite detention without charge, military tribunals and transfer of persons arrested in the U.S. overseas is unconstitutional, and any Idaho official who cooperates with the feds in enforcing the law should be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Now that liquor in Washington has left the relatively secure environment of small network of state stores to become part of the standard merchandise in virtually every grocery, drug and discount store in the state, it does not seem surprising that stories of liquor theft have become commonplace.
Lawmakers fearful the U.S. Supreme Court might one day reverse itself on the issue of individual gun rights aim to change the Idaho Constitution's definition of a militia to include all the state's adults.
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