26TH YEAR, NO. 6
THE PLATEAU’S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED NEWSPAPER
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2017
SAMMAMISH
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REVIEW
Issaquah wrestles KingCo crown away from Skyline Page 7
SUV used in park hit-and-run death found The Seattle Times and Issaquah Press
The King County Sheriff’s Office recovered a gold Infiniti SUV in Renton on the evening of Feb. 2 that was allegedly used to run down a 22-year-old Klahanie man at Beaver Lake Park in Sammamish. Detectives had been looking for the vehicle since Jan. 25, when Moises Radcliffe was struck after firing shots at the SUV carrying a group of sus-
pected car prowlers who had allegedly broken into his car and stolen his girlfriend’s purse. Charges filed Feb. 1 against the woman arrested in connection with his death provide new details of the chaotic incident. Ka’Deidre Rials, 23, of Kent, was charged with felony hit-andrun for failing to stop and provide aid to Radcliffe, who fired multiple shots at Rials’ vehicle as he apparently tried to stop the SUV from leaving Beaver Lake
Park, charging papers say. Arrested Jan. 28 in Skyway, Rials was also charged with second-degree identity theft and two counts of second-degree vehicle prowl. She was initially ordered held on $1 million bail, but a judge Feb. 1 lowered Rials’ bail to $300,000, said Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for Prosecutor Dan Satterberg. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled
County, pursuing trail permits, dealt a setback in court BY LIZZ GIORDANO lgiordano@sammamishreview.com
A Superior Court judge dismissed three claims filed by King County against the City of Sammamish regarding permits for the final segment of the East Lake Sammamish Trail and an associated parking lot. Three other claims are pending and awaiting a court date, according to the court’s Jan. 23 decision. King County filed suit Jan. 3 against the City of Sammamish, calling the city’s refusal to process clearing and grading permit applications “illegal, arbitrary and capricious.” The county filed four permit applications in October with the city related to the multi-use regional trail and parking lot near Northeast Inglewood Hill Road. Each project requires the county to obtain a clearing and grading permit and a shoreline substantial development permit. The city deemed the shoreline substantial development permits complete, but not the clearing and grading permits. The county was asking the
court to deem the clearing and grading permit applications complete as of Nov. 30 so a redesign of the trail to comply with new regulations adopted by Sammamish was not necessary, according to court documents. New city surface water design standards went into effect Jan. 1. The county argued that all application requirements have been satisfied and “the city’s refusal to vest King County’s clearing and grading permit applications has enabled the City to amend regulations that will apply to permit review,” according to court documents. The city contended “it cannot review the cleaning and grading permit applications until it knows what the final trail design will be and thus cannot consider the applications simultaneously,” according to court documents. The court dismissed several claims by the county, concluding that the state’s Land Use Petition Act is the exclusive method of appealing the city’s completeness determinaSEE TRAIL, PAGE 3
Radcliffe’s death a homicide and determined he died from multiple blunt-force injuries from being struck, dragged and run over by the vehicle, charging papers say. Radcliffe, an Issaquah High School graduate, was the son of a Seattle police officer. “Although the charges presently filed against the defendant do not include homicide, the investigation into the death of Moises Radcliffe continues,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Baird
wrote in charging documents. According to the charges, Rials and two teenage girls committed at least two car prowls in the park’s parking lot. Rials broke a window in Radcliffe’s Subaru Legacy and stole his girlfriend’s purse, then quickly got into her SUV as the couple returned to the lot after walking their dog, the charges say. Radcliffe grabbed a gun from SEE FOUND, PAGE 5
BUILDING A BETTER IGLOO
BY GREG FARRAR | gfarrar@sammamishreview.com
A snow igloo takes shape as a group of Klahanie neighborhood girls demonstrate their construction skills Feb. 6 in the 4300 block of 252nd Place Southeast following a six-inch snowfall overnight on the Plateau.
Dentist serves combat vets in need BY LIZZ GIORDANO lgiordano@sammamishreview.com
War veterans are frequently thanked by the public for their service, but one Issaquah nonprofit is challenging the community to do more. Using a model that initially
connected low-income combat veterans with dental services, Everyone For Veterans is expanding to include other goods and services that local community members can offer for free. What began as a yearly volunteer event 10 years ago
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— providing free dental care to low-income combat veterans and their spouses by Dr. Theresa Cheng’s Issaquah dental office — has since grown to linking those men and women around the country with local SEE DENTIST, PAGE 3
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