Pierce County Sheriff’s office employee fired after filing of criminal charges
An office assistant in the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office was fired Nov. 12 after being charged with a pair of felonies.
“The employee was charged with residential burglary and malicious mischief, with a domestic violence component, both felony offenses,” the Sheriff’s Office announced in a news release. “Following a review of the situation and consistent with department policy and standards of conduct, the employee was terminated from employment effective today, November 12, 2025.”
The trouble started just after midnight Nov. 10 with a mother-daughter argument, according to charging papers filed Nov. 12 in Pierce County Superior Court. Tacoma police officers responded to a dispatch call: a domestic disturbance and destruction of property.
Officers arrived and spoke to a woman who said her daughter, 43, had just left after an argument. The daughter had left her dog with her mother, gone to a bar, drank and forgot to pick up the dog. The daughter was verbally abusive, according to the police report.
“(Daughter) called her mom out of her name by using profanity,” the police report states.
The two women kept arguing until the mother told the daughter to leave.
“(Suspect) walked to the kitchen and started knocking/tossing around items in the kitchen,” the report states. The daughter also smashed the screen of her mother’s phone.
The mother warned the daughter she would call 911. The daughter dared her to, according to the police report. The mother called. The daughter left.
Tacoma officers later arrested the daughter at her apartment at another address in the city. She was booked into the Pierce County Jail. She was arraigned Nov. 12 and ordered to have no contact with her mother.
The Sheriff’s Office announced the woman’s termination within hours of her arraignment.
“The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office holds all employees, sworn and civilian, to the highest standards of integrity and accountability,” the department news release stated. “The public places immense trust in our office, and we take that responsibility seriously. Any behavior that undermines that trust will be addressed swiftly and transparently.”
Since the daughter is not a law enforcement officer, The News Tribune is choosing not to name her. Public records show she worked in the sheriff’s sex-crimes unit before her termination and earned an annual base salary of $62,400 as of 2023. Her trial date is tentatively set for Jan. 5, 2026.
This story was originally published November 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM.
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