Court Report

The following are criminal cases heard recently in Skagit County Superior Court:

ASSAULT

A 43-year-old Mount Vernon man was sentenced to 45 days in jail Monday after pleading guilty to third-degree assault, hit-and-run, and three counts of violating a protection order.

According to court records, on Sept. 8, 2024, Tristan Chenell Peake struck a man with his vehicle in Mount Vernon and fled the scene.

Police believe Peake intentionally struck the man, who moments before the incident was involved in a physical altercation with Peake inside his vehicle.

After Peake struck the man, he exited his vehicle and shouted at him before getting into another physical altercation with him.

Records state that the protection order violations occurred in 2025 and 2026.

DRUGS

Prosecutors dropped two of five felony charges Thursday against an Anacortes High School senior after state crime lab testing found no fentanyl on cannabis the student allegedly sold to middle-school students earlier this year.

A third charge against 18-year-old Zakeius Lavincent Hawkins has been amended to reflect the lack of fentanyl found by the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory, according to court records.

The crime lab's tests found cannabis - but not fentanyl - in the suspected drugs that Hawkins had allegedly possessed on school grounds and sold to younger students, according to an affidavit written by Anacortes Det. Sgt. Terrence Clifford.

In March, Zakeius Hawkins pleaded not guilty to five felony drug charges, including delivery of fentanyl to a minor and delivery of fentanyl to a minor in a school zone.

Prosecutors dropped those two charges Thursday, while also changing another charge: possession of fentanyl in a school zone with intent to deliver. That charge is now possession of cannabis in a school zone with intent to deliver.

Two other charges remain the same: Delivery of cannabis to a minor and delivery of cannabis to a minor in a school zone.

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