May 11, 2020 PORT ORCHARD – The Kitsap Critical Incident Response Team (KCIRT) is investigating an incident that occurred at the Kitsap County Jail, resulting in one Kitsap County Correction’s Officer and one inmate being hospitalized. On Saturday, May 9, 2020, at around 10:30 a.m., Kitsap County Corrections Officers responded to an inmate in crisis. The inmate,…
May 7, 2020 Spokane – Early this morning, troopers arrested a 44 year old woman after she drove at least 13 miles eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 from Spokane to Liberty Lake. The woman then crashed into a Washington State Patrol (WSP) troopers patrol vehicle before stopping in a local gas station parking…
May 6, 2020 King County: At approximately 6:30pm on May 5, 2020, Trooper Mosqueda stopped a Ford F-150 NB I-405 near SR 520 for speeding. Upon contact, Trooper Mosqueda observed a young child in the back seat and asked the driver for his ID which he provided. Trooper Mosqueda went back to his patrol car and ran…
April 22, 2020 Olympia, WA – The Washington State Patrol (WSP) has made an arrest after the investigation of a threat to Governor Jay Inslee and his staff. Shortly before 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday evening, April 21, 2020, WSP contacted Mr. Shawn C. Rowland at his residence in Mill Creek, WA. Earlier the same day, a threatening…
April 21, 2020 Olympia – Due to the current circumstances and with the health and safety of those involved being the biggest priority, the 43rd Annual Kiwanis Camp scheduled for August has been cancelled. This decision was not made easily and the staff and volunteers who make this event happen every year are disappointed, but understand…
April 7, 2020 Spokane – On April 6, 2020, at 3:48 p.m., a Washington State Patrol Sergeant working in the area of State Route 395 and Hastings Rd, in north Spokane County heard EMS being dispatched to a person who was unresponsive in the area. Sergeant Greg Riddell found a 24 year old female down in…
April 3, 2020 BREMERTON – With just one phone call, Washington State Patrol (WSP) Sergeant Kristopher Orlowski found himself trading his French blues for fatigues and joining the fight against COVID-19. As a medic and Command Sergeant Major in the U.S. Army Reserves, Orlowski received the call that he was being activated at 10 a.m. Thursday, March…
April 1, 2020 Seattle – On Friday, March 27, the Washington State Patrol (WSP) Crime Laboratory Division provided the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center with critical equipment to increase COVID-19 testing. The UW Virology department currently processes about two to three-thousand COVID-19 clinical samples a day. With this number expected to increase, the department was in…
March 24, 2020 Olympia, WA – With heavy hearts, the Washington State Patrol confirms the loss of Trooper Justin R. Schaffer, Badge #646. Trooper Schaffer passed away today, March 24, 2020, at the age of 28 after serving 7 years with the State Patrol. He was fatally struck by a vehicle while placing spike strips down on…
March 24, 2020 Seattle – Washington State Patrol and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office is requesting assistance from the public with identifying a man involved in a collision on Monday March 9, 2020, at 7:30 am on SR900 (MLK WAY) at 64th Ave S in the Skyway area of Seattle. The man died of his…