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10/30/06 GUITARD
FINAL PERSON PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT OF $2.9 MILLION WORTH OF FUEL - Company insiders admit doctoring records and procedures to sell stolen gas to area stations

10/26/06 FONG
CANADIAN NATIONALS ARRESTED WITH MORE THAN 400 LBS. OF ECSTASY - Agents Moved in Offering "Help" as Defendants Attempted to Pull Boat from Water with Undersized Trailer

10/24/06 YOUNG
WHIDBEY ISLAND MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO USING THE INTERNET TO ENTICE A MINOR TO TRAVEL FOR ILLEGAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY - Crime Uncovered When Girl Mistakenly Takes Plane to Washington D.C.

10/19/06 DOLLAR
TACOMA WOMAN SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON FOR DRIVING GETAWAY CAR IN CREDIT UNION ROBBERY - Woman Helped Recruit 12-year-old Boy to Participate in Armed Robbery

10/19/06 GARRED
SPANAWAY WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY IN CONNECTION WITH ARMED ROBBERIES - Defendant Assisted Serial Robber by Scouting Credit Unions, then Lied to Grand Jury

10/19/06 HERSEL
LAKEWOOD MAN SENTENCED TO TWELVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR BANK ROBBERY, CARJACKING, AND ASSAULT ON FBI AGENT - Defendant Rammed Agent's Car During High Speed Chase

10/16/06 ARMSTEAD
LEADER OF ID THEFT RING SENTENCED TO 17 ½ YEARS IN PRISON - Shoreline Man Recruited Drug Addicts to Steal ID Information, Commit Fraud

10/16/06 PLOWMAN
LAWYER PLEADS GUILTY TO FINANCIAL REPORTING CRIME IN CONNECTION WITH LAUNDERING OF DRUG MONEY THROUGH LAUNDROMAT - Admits He Failed to Report Large Cash Transactions Linked to Drug Dealer

10/13/06 ANGOUS
REPEAT IDENTITY THIEF SENTENCED TO NEARLY EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON - Seattle Woman Used Identities of a Dozen Women to Run up More than $170,000 in Credit Card Charges

10/13/06 PATEL
OWNER OF HOUSE USED IN "DRUG "TUNNEL" PLEADS GUILTY

10/13/06 CUNNINGHAM
LEADER OF MARIJUANA AND COCAINE TRAFFICKING RING SENTENCED TO A DECADE BEHIND BARS - Drug Ring Linked to 23 Kilos of Cocaine, $1.3 Million Cash

10/13/06 MORED
SOUTH KING COUNTY PAIR CHARGED WITH ID THEFT/ BANK FRAUD SCHEME - Identity Information Allegedly Stolen While Defendant Worked as Janitor at US Bank

10/13/06 FIGUEROA-LOPEZ
VANCOUVER MAN SENTENCED TO NINE YEARS IN PRISON FOR REPEATED DRUG DEALING - Defendant Stopped Twice with Meth in Car and Hidden on His Body

10/13/06 GARCIA-QUIROZ
VANCOUVER RESIDENT SENTENCED TO MORE THAN 12 YEARS IN PRISON FOR DRUG CONSPIRACY - Mexican National Conspired to Distribute Highly Pure Methamphetamine

10/6/06 OJALA
MAN WHO POSED AS FIANCE AND RECRUITED OTHERS TO VISA FRAUD SCHEME SENTENCED - Third of Some Thirty Defendants Charged with Accepting Trips and Cash to Engage in Sham Marriages

10/6/06 WEGERS
BANDIDOS PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR RACKETEERING - Must Move from Whatcom County for Three Years

10/6/06 TRAN
SEATTLE ACCOUNTANT SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED MONEY LAUNDERING - Sting Operation Nets Accountant Setting up Sham Companies to Hide Illegal Proceeds of Crime

10/5/06 SHANAHAN
TRUST SCHEME PROMOTER SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN PRISON - Tacoma Man Pleaded Guilty in midst of Trial with Co-defendant

10/4/06 KOLAR
TWO DEFENDANTS ENTER GUILTY PLEAS IN CONNECTION WITH UW ARSON - Both Present at Arson; One Cut Glass to Gain Access to the Building