A 43-year-old motorcyclist who died early Saturday after crashing near the intersection of state Routes 167 and 410 near Sumner has been identified as Paul Butler.
Butler, of Kent, was riding a 2008 Kawasaki Concours 1400 north on SR 167 when he lost control and struck a guardrail about 12:45 a.m. Saturday.
A 43-year-old Kent man died in an motorcycle accident early Saturday morning near the intersection of state highways 167 and 410, the State Patrol says.
The man’s identity has not yet been released. State Patrol spokesman Guy Gill says the man was driving a 2008 Kawasaki Concours 1400.
A man wanted for kidnapping and robbery led Pierce County sheriff’s deputies on a high-speed pursuit this afternoon before rolling his car in Sumner.
Deputies spotted the vehicle just after 4 p.m. and tried to pull over the man, who is wanted in Snohomish County, but the man refused to stop.
“He was seen getting in the truck with a bulletproof vest and high-powered weapons,” sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said. “We tried to stop him and he rolled his car.”
It’s unclear where the chase started but it ended at valley Avenue East and Elm Street East in Sumner.
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Pierce County prosecutors have filed charges against a 52-year-old man who allegedly stole a woman’s purse and car at gunpoint Sunday.
Kelly Alfred Stevens was arraigned Tuesday on one count of first-degree robbery. He’s being held in Pierce County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.
Court documents provide the following information.
A woman told Sumner police that she and a friend were in the parking lot of a store Sunday night when a man approached. The man wielded a gun and demanded the woman’s purse and car keys.
The woman handed over the items. The robber got into the woman’s …
An employee at a Sumner business was hospitalized today after inhaling possibly hazardous chemicals, fire officials said.
The Pierce County Hazardous Materials Incident Team was called to Northwest Health Care Linen at 3107 142nd Avenue East just before noon after a worker became ill while handling linens from a hospital.
The hazmat team evacuated nearby businesses as a precaution and investigated the scene.
East Pierce Fire & Rescue Chief Jim Jaques said the illness was likely caused by several mop heads coated with cleaning chemicals.
The chemicals were sent to the Department of Ecology to be analyzed.
A car has crashed into a building in Sumner.
The accident occurred at Park Street and Alder Avenue. Sumner police were on the scene.
UPDATE:
The City of Sumner reports that the car was being driven by a 66-year-old woman from Puyallup. She apparently suffered a medical emergency, which led to the crash.
Paramedics from East Pierce Fire & Rescue took her to Good Samaritan Hospital for further evaluation.
There was no one else in the car.
A couple found shot to death Friday in their Enumclaw house have been identified as Amy and Zachary Erwin, both 42.
Enumclaw police found the husband and wife inside their home in the 1700 block of Washington Avenue about 7:30 p.m.
A handgun was found at the scene and detectives are treating the deaths as a possible homicide-suicide. They are still investigating.
Amy Erwin was a teacher at Victor Hills Elementary School in Sumner.
The couple had children, but they were not home at the time of the shootings.
A semi-truck driver was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving early this morning after overturning his truck and spilling chocolate wine along a Sumner street.
The accident happened about 1:50 a.m. at the corner of 24th Street East and 142nd Avenue East. It took two tow trucks to pull the semi upright, which temporarily blocked traffic just before noon.
No one was injured but the driver toppled a stop sign and light pole.
“The truck odometer had 29 miles on it,” said city spokeswoman Carmen Palmer. “It was a brand-new truck.”
It’s unclear where the truck was heading but officials …