In brief: Man shot by police in Moses Lake was drug trafficking suspect
The 36-year-old man shot by Moses Lake police rammed two police vehicles with his car and was under investigation for drug trafficking, according to a news release from investigators.
Roberto Escamilla Mendoza was shot by Sgt. Brian Jones, a 16-year veteran of the Moses Lake Police Department, during his attempted arrest Friday morning in the 2700 block of West Broadway Avenue in Moses Lake, according to the news release. Mendoza was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment.
Investigators say they recovered 5.7 pounds of methamphetamine and cash from Mendoza’s residence. When officers moved to arrest him, he struck two cruisers with his 2002 Honda Accord, police say.
Jones has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the internal investigation as part of agency protocol, Moses Lake Police Capt. Dave Sands said.
YWCA names achievement award winners
The YWCA of Spokane on Wednesday named the winners of its 2014 Women of Achievement awards. Winners will be honored at the organization’s annual Impact Luncheon on Oct. 1. They are:
• Sister Paula Turnbull, Arts & Culture; prolific artist who created Riverfront Park’s garbage-eating goat sculpture.
• Nancy Isserlis, Business & Industry; Spokane city attorney.
• Rhosetta Rhodes, Carl J. Maxey Racial & Social Justice; chief of staff at Whitworth University.
• Stephy Nobles-Beans, Community Enhancement; coordinator of ministry and multicultural affairs at Whitworth.
• Shelley Redinger, Education; superintendent of Spokane Public Schools.
• Patricia Butterfield, Science, Technology & Environment; dean of the WSU College of Nursing.
• Trish McFarland, Lifetime Achievement Award, retired executive director of the YWCA of Spokane.
The luncheon will be held at the Spokane Convention Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The keynote speaker is Hattie Kauffman, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe who became the first Native American journalist to anchor KING 5 News in Seattle and to serve as a special correspondent for ABC’s Good Morning America.
Proceeds from the fundraising lunch benefit YWCA services for domestic violence victims. For information or to register visit www.ywcaspokane.org or contact Lisa Logan at (509) 326-1190 or lisal@ywcaspokane.org.
Girl dies of E. coli; boy in critical condition
TACOMA – Authorities said a second Northwest child has died after contracting an E. coli infection while a 5-year-old boy being treated for E. coli complications remains in critical condition but is steadily improving in a Tacoma hospital.
Health officials and relatives said all three children tested positive for E. coli bacteria.
Relatives said 3-year-old Brooklyn Hoksbergen of Lynden, Washington, died last Friday in a Seattle hospital. Whatcom County Health Department’s Dr. Greg Stern said she tested positive for a strain of E. coli known as O157. Stern said he knows of no link between her case and any other cases.
Brad Sutton is being treated at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma. He attended the same Labor Day weekend gathering in Lincoln County on the Oregon coast as 4-year-old Serena Profitt of Otis, Oregon. She died Monday evening in Portland.
The boy’s mother, Elizabeth Sutton, told the Oregonian that Brad and Serena shared a turkey sandwich at an Oregon restaurant. The two also reportedly swam in a pond together.
Lincoln County officials have scheduled a news conference today to discuss their E. coli investigation.
Minimum wage protest results in arrests
BELLEVUE – Police in Bellevue, Washington, said they have arrested eight people for failure to disperse at the conclusion of a march in support of a $15 per hour minimum wage in that suburb east of Seattle.
After trekking across a Lake Washington bridge that carries Interstate 90 between Seattle and Bellevue, about 150 marchers gathered Wednesday evening outside a Bellevue fast-food restaurant.
Organizers of the “We Are Rising” rally said earlier that some participants planned to risk arrest in peaceful civil disobedience.
After some of the protesters sat down in a busy downtown Bellevue intersection, police made the arrests.