Mike Carter

5 days ago | seattletimes.com | Mike Carter

Four current and former Seattle police officers who attended the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to protect their identities as they fight a Washington court decision ordering the release of their names. Their attorney is asking the justices to stay the execution of a unanimous decision by the Washington Supreme Court issued Feb. 13 finding the officers should be identified by name in court proceedings.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Mike Carter

As an undercover Seattle police detective, Bryan Van Brunt was unbelievably good at living the made-up lives of the criminal characters he inhabited: an Aryan biker and gunrunner, a drug dealer, an underground gambler and criminal fixer. What he struggled with was living his own life, once the disguises were gone. Van Brunt took his own life on Sept.

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Mike Carter

The Seattle Police Department has released body-camera footage showing the moments leading up to an officer shooting and killing a man outside the department’s Southwest Precinct in the Delridge neighborhood. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the man who was killed as Urban Andrew Seay, 36, of Seattle, and determined he died of multiple gunshot wounds.

1 month ago | gazettextra.com | Mike Carter

A federal grand jury in Tacoma, Washington, has indicted an active-duty U.S. Army sergeant on charges of espionage, bribery and theft of government property. A three-county indictment alleges Sgt. Jian Zhao, who was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord as a supply sergeant for the 17th Field Artillery Brigade, sold computer equipment and other materiel containing classified information to a Chinese resident. The indictment alleges he was paid $15,000.

1 month ago | thederrick.com | Mike Carter

A federal grand jury in Tacoma, Washington, has indicted an active-duty U.S. Army sergeant on charges of espionage, bribery and theft of government property. A three-county indictment alleges Sgt. Jian Zhao, who was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord as a supply sergeant for the 17th Field Artillery Brigade, sold computer equipment and other materiel containing classified information to a Chinese resident. The indictment alleges he was paid $15,000.