While Aaron C. Fisher was sentenced earlier today to 90 months in prison for the manslaughter of 70-year-old Richard Madeo, the most consequential battle in the courtroom wasn’t about the length of his sentence—it was about a scribbled word on a jury verdict form, and a
Aaron C. Fisher, 37, of Port Townsend, was sentenced to 90 months in prison for the May 2025 death of 70-year-old Richard G. Madeo.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge Brent Basden handed down the sentence, which includes credit for time served and 36 months of community custody. Restitution
Washington State Senator Mike Chapman is being credited with saving the life of his 71-year-old neighbor, after throwing his own body over the elderly man to shield him from a vicious, unprovoked beating over the weekend.
However, despite the severity of the attack, the suspect’s violent resistance
Accountability has finally caught up with a Grays Harbor County man responsible for the wanton, wasteful slaughter of local wildlife—a crime that robs Washington’s ecosystems, steals from ethical hunters, and damages the state’s outdoor economy.
On Friday, March 27, Grays Harbor Superior Court Judge Katherine Svoboda dropped
About five years ago, the details of a crime sent a shockwave through the West End community of Clallam County: a trusted school employee, utilizing her access to students, admitted to the severe and ongoing sexual abuse of a middle schooler.
Tammy Ann Leask, a former para-educator for the
A tragic double homicide in Mason County has brutally exposed the limits of Washington’s family court’s protective measures.
Just one day after a Mason County judge finalized a domestic violence protection order against him, 60-year-old Robert Terry Child allegedly drove to a Hoodsport residence and shot
The adrenaline of the tactical raid at the 7 Cedars Casino has faded, and the operation to dismantle a massive, cross-county drug trafficking network has now transitioned from the streets into the bureaucratic machinery of the Clallam County Superior Court.
While the arrest of former Drug Court Coordinator Johnny
A 34-year-old Spokane man has been convicted by a federal jury for his role as the source of a deadly interstate drug trafficking scheme that introduced fentanyl into a remote Alaskan community, leaving two men dead.
Following a five-day trial in Juneau, Alaska, Jacob Cotton of Spokane
Just weeks after a massive, multi-agency raid uncovered a heavily armed narcotics distribution network, the man at the center of the operation is back on the streets.
Johnny Watts, the former Clallam County Drug Court Coordinator, bonded out of jail on March 24 after posting a $250,000 bail
A Clallam County man was arrested for the possession of child sex abuse material, following an investigation sparked by a national cyber tip.
Robert J. Phifer, 58, faces five counts of Possession of Depictions of Minors engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct in the 1st degree, and one count in the
The arrest of former Clallam County Drug Court Coordinator Johnny Watts was the first domino in a two-day, multi-agency sweep that led investigators straight to the doors of the 7 Cedars Casino in Sequim.
According to the Olympic Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Team, the March 11 standoff in Agnew
On March 11, 2026, a standoff in the Agnew area ended with the arrest of a wanted violent offender—and another man found with a loaded firearm and suspected drugs.
The second man was 50-year-old Johnny Watts.
Watts is not just a peripheral figure in the local criminal
A King County judge has added more than four years to the prison sentence of a man who used his relationships within a Redmond church to sexually abuse children in his congregation.
On March 6, 2026, King County Superior Court Judge Samuel Chung sentenced Buckland Lee Darrell to an additional
Thomas Steffens, a 72-year-old former Moses Lake physician, was arrested on Monday in Vero Beach, Florida, following an exchange of gunfire with a U.S. Marshals regional fugitive task force.
Steffens previously spent many years practicing medicine in Moses Lake. State of Washington Department of Health records show
Everett, Washington resident Phillip Richard Wharton was indicted on two federal counts of threatening to murder the President of the United States.
The indictment, handed down on February 25, 2026, centers on a pair of graphic death threats posted to social media platforms in August and September of 2025.
The
This afternoon, a jury returned a guilty verdict against Aaron C. Fisher on the charge of first-degree manslaughter.
Fisher’s sentencing hearing is set for March 31.
This story is developing.
Josiah Hill, the disgraced former Olympic Medical Center doctor, is scheduled to be back in court for a show cause hearing on February 20 at 9:00 AM, after the State filed a petition to revoke or modify Hill’s probation conditions.
Prosecutors allege that Hill did not complete a
Just days before his murder trial is set to begin, Aaron Fisher faced a new legal hurdle in Clallam County Superior Court on Tuesday. Fisher was additionally charged with one count of witness tampering.
The new charge adds another layer of complexity to a high-profile case that has already
The high-stakes murder trial of Aaron Fisher has been pushed back to February 9, 2026. Court records show Clallam County Superior Court Judge Brent Basden granted a continuance to defense attorney Lane Wolfley during a hearing on Friday, January 23. The trial was originally scheduled to begin today, January
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