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    Articles by Benjamin Leung
    19-year-old pleads not guilty to Federal Way shooting death
    19-year-old pleads not guilty to Federal Way shooting...
    By Benjamin Leung • September 7, 2023 8:30 am

    Teenager remains in custody on $5 million bail

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    File photo
    Pacific man, 19, charged in shooting death of...
    By Benjamin Leung • August 16, 2023 3:08 pm

    Police responded Aug. 7 to an apartment complex in the 400 block of South 325th Place.

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    Public Health – Seattle & King County staff administering COVID-19 vaccine to a local emergency responder. COURTESY PHOTO, Public Health-Seattle & King County
    King County wants to rehire employees who were...
    By Benjamin Leung • July 27, 2023 2:43 pm

    A total of 314 employees separated from King County as a result of the mandate, with eight retiring, 25 resigning, and 281 fired as a result of noncompliance.

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    The Monroe Correctional Complex in Monroe, Wa. (Sound Publishing file photo)
    State DOC pledges to reduce use of solitary...
    By Benjamin Leung • July 1, 2023 11:30 am

    Goal is to lower the rate by 90% in the next five years in Washington state prisons.

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    Courtesy of the Renton Police Department
Stolen merchandise piles high at the Federal Way residence of a man suspected of trafficking in stolen merchandise.
    Renton police recover $1.5M of stolen merchandise in...
    By Benjamin Leung • June 27, 2023 12:40 pm

    Renton police served a search warrant at a Federal Way residence on June 20.

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    Geographical distribution map of shots fired incidents in the first quarter of 2023 in King County. (Courtesy of the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.)
    King County sees reduction in gun violence in...
    By Benjamin Leung • June 16, 2023 1:30 am

    King County sees reduction in gun violence in first quarter of 2023

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    Collision leaves two with life-threatening injuries
    Collision leaves two with life-threatening injuries
    By Benjamin Leung • June 14, 2023 1:17 pm

    Incident occurred in an unincorporated King County neighborhood near Auburn and Federal Way.

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    Average annual salaries of the King County police departments’ top 15 paid employees per department (By Benjamin Leung)
    How much are South King County police chiefs...
    By Benjamin Leung • June 9, 2023 7:00 am

    This analysis breaks down the salaries between police chiefs in Auburn, Bellevue, Federal Way, Kent and Renton.

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    Patrick Nicholas, 59, (right) confers with his defense attorney David Montes after opening statements are made Monday, April 17, 2023, at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Nicholas is standing trial for the December 1991 killing of 16-year-old Sarah Yarborough. Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times
    Yarborough murder trial goes to the jury
    By Benjamin Leung • May 4, 2023 4:00 pm

    Jurors will now decide if Patrick Nicholas killed the Federal Way High School student in 1991.

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    Austin Wenner and Jessica Lewis. Photo courtesy of Gina Jaschke
    Landlord sentenced to 46 years in prison for...
    By Benjamin Leung • April 19, 2023 1:30 pm

    The remains of Wenner and Lewis were found in suitcases along Alki Beach in West Seattle in 2020.

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    Cicero Sanchez, 31, lays dead at the scene near South 317th Street and 28 Avenue South after two King County Sheriff’s Office deputies shot him following a vehicle pursuit on May 4, 2022. Multiple vehicles, both unmarked and marked, surround Sanchez’s vehicle. A King County Sheriff’s Office vehicle pins the driver’s door of Sanchez’s vehicle shut with the window half open. The original family liaison for the Sanchez family, Douglas Faini, said in an email that Sanchez climbed out of the open window. Sanchez’s body has been censored with a black box by this newspaper’s editorial staff. (Photo courtesy of Cristy Sanchez)
    Autopsy sheds light on fatal shooting by King...
    By Benjamin Leung • April 17, 2023 1:00 pm

    2022 incident involving Cicero Sanchez is still under investigation.

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    Leticia Martinez-Cosman was last seen on March 31 at a Mariners game sitting next to Brett Michael Gitchel, who prosecutors plan to charge with her murder. (Courtesy of Seattle Police Department)
    Medical examiner’s office confirms death of Leticia Martinez-Cosman
    By Benjamin Leung • April 14, 2023 3:40 pm

    Martinez-Cosman’s body was found in Renton on April 11.

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    Photo courtesy of South King Fire and Rescue
    South King County fire chiefs developing behavioral health...
    By Benjamin Leung • April 12, 2023 1:30 pm

    11 agencies are working to address mental health concerns at work and at home.

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    Law enforcement officials investigate the scene of a fatal shooting near a freeway ramp in Federal Way on May 4, 2022. (File photo courtesy of South Sound News)
    Investigation of deputy-involved shooting death goes on and...
    By Benjamin Leung • March 9, 2023 12:23 pm

    In the ten months following the May 4, 2022, shooting death of Cicero Sanchez, 31, on South 317th Street and…

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    A vehicle going southbound on I-5 crossed into northbound lanes the morning of March 5, causing a collision at S. 336th Street. (Photo courtesy of South King Fire and Rescue)
    Collisions close I-5 in Federal Way
    By Benjamin Leung • March 6, 2023 6:45 pm

    Two separate collisions on March 5 and March 6 resulted in temporary closures and slow traffic on Interstate 5 near…

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    Police lights (File photo)
    Shoreline man sentenced for vehicular homicide
    By Benjamin Leung • March 3, 2023 10:30 am

    The 39-year-old man was arrested in Federal Way in September 2021.

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