A 24-year-old gang member is set to be arraigned today on charges that he threatened two community corrections officers guarding him in the hospital, telling them it was law enforcement like them that caused the murder of four Lakewood police officers.
A 24-year-old gang member is set to be arraigned today on charges that he threatened two community corrections officers guarding him in the hospital, telling them it was law enforcement like them that caused the murder of four Lakewood police officers.
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The Benton County sheriff's gang unit jailed 191 suspects and seized 18 dangerous weapons during its first year in operation.
The five-member unit is "meeting the objective that we've set out to meet -- to reduce violent gang crime and the number of gang members in our community," said Sheriff Steve Keane, after releasing the unit's stats for 2012.
The unit was formed in 2011 to crack down on gang activity, said Keane, who estimates the Tri-City area has 700 to 1,000 gang members and associates.
A gang member pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he threatened two community corrections officers guarding him in the hospital, telling them people like them were responsible for the killing of four Lakewood police officers.
A 21-year-old Pierce County Jail inmate was charged with felony harassment Thursday for allegedly threatening a corrections officer that refused to give the inmate a second lunch.
More than two decades after a teenage gangster was felled by a bullet to the head – popularly believed to be the first gang member killed in Tacoma – the man suspected of pulling the trigger will answer for the death.
A man pleaded not guilty Christmas Eve to threatening to blow up the Lakewood Department of Corrections office.
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