Chris Ingalls

1 week ago | king5.com | Chris Ingalls

LEWIS COUNTY, Wash. — A former employee at Washington’s maximum security juvenile detention center in Lewis County admitted that she posed as a DoorDash delivery driver to try to smuggle drugs to an inmate. Angel Misner admitted to the plot to supply 1.3 pounds of marijuana to Robbrie Thompson, an inmate at the Green Hill school serving 40 years for two murders. Thompson is the same inmate that Misner and another former Green Hill security officer were suspected of having sex with last year.

2 weeks ago | kgw.com | Chris Ingalls

BURLINGTON, Wash. — Some Washington police agencies are dumping their handguns after the state academy that trains police officers said the guns were unsafe for recruits. Hundreds of those controversial firearms – Sig Sauer model P320 – could end up back in the marketplace potentially for sale to citizens, KING 5 Investigators have learned. The P320 has faced accusations by law agencies across the country, including Washington state, that it can fire without a trigger pull.

1 month ago | king5.com | Chris Ingalls

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Brett Ryan hit the floor hard when he slumped over and died on the second floor of his mother’s Sumner home in February of last year. “I was laying in bed, starting to go to sleep, and I heard a thud,” said Judy Russo. A short time later, emergency crews told her that her son had possibly died from using fentanyl. Brett Ryan, 36, had a long-term drug and alcohol addiction that made his life a struggle.

2 months ago | kgw.com | Chris Ingalls

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Some Washington police agencies oppose a decision by the state’s Criminal Justice Training Commission to ban a handgun widely used by law enforcement and the United States military. “I would ask the commission to consider placing a temporary pause on this directive to allow for more thorough discussion about the budget and the impact,” Bellevue Police Chief Wendell J. Shirley said at a March 12 meeting of the commission that trains and certifies all Washington police officers.

2 months ago | kgw.com | Chris Ingalls

BLAINE, Wash. — Speed matters as the cooks at Blaine Elementary school serve up hot food to hundreds of hungry kids that will line up during six lunch periods. “I need to get these kids through in about ten minutes,” said Sue Wozniak, who has worked for the Blaine School District in Whatcom County for 26 years. The goal, as she whips out piles of mashed potatoes and gravy onto trays, is to get kids as much time as possible to sit and eat their lunches.