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Police seeking two men in potential hate crime BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
JAY CLINE/CLALLAM FIRE DISTRICT NO. 2
Clallam Fire District No. 2 personnel met up with this helicopter to transport two people in Olympic National Park experiencing heat exhaustion to a hospital. Officials said they were part of a team assessing the Cox Valley fire in the park.
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OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Last week’s lightning has sparked three small wildfires in the national park. All were discovered this week
after a series of storms last Thursday, July 21, that led to more than 400 lightning strikes over the Olympic Mountains, said Barb Maynes, Olympic National Park spokeswoman.
Heat exhaustion Two firefighters suffered heat exhaustion and were air-lifted from one of the fires on Thursday, according to Clallam Fire District No. 2 Assistant Chief Dan Huff. The largest one, the Godkin
Fire in the Elwha River Valley, had grown to 40 acres by Thursday, Maynes said. It was discovered near the confluence of Godkin Creek and the Elwha River in the geographic center of the park late Monday. At that time, it covered about 7 acres. It is about 15 miles south of Hurricane Ridge. Smoke may be visible from the Ridge, Maynes said. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — The FBI agreed Thursday to review the July 17 beating of a college-age black man by a white man in Port Angeles as a potential hate crime for possible prosecution under federal law, interim Police Chief Brian Smith said Thursday. “I reached out to the FBI, and they are going to open a case to assist us,” Smith said, adding that he contacted the agency’s Poulsbo office. “The facts support a crime they can work.” Smith said the case will be reviewed under the Civil Rights Chapter of Title 18 of the U.S. Code, Section 249, under which a person can be prosecuted for committing a hate crime.
Names not released He said Port Angeles police are seeking two men who allegedly were involved in the beating incident of the man — a college-age Clallam County resident who has asked police not to release his name. The assault took place at 2:30 a.m. July 17 near the intersection of South Cedar and West Ninth streets between the Eighth Street bridges. One man is suspected as being the assailant, estimated at 18 to 19 years old, according to Smith. The other man is suspected as having driven the assailant away. “We have a name of a driver, and we have a name of a possible
[beating] suspect,” Smith said. Smith said police as of Thursday did not have enough evidence to prove probable cause that the two were involved, such as an eyewitness, a confession, physical evidence or the victim identifying his attacker in a lineup. Three males and three females, all white, were present at the attack, according to the victim. They drove up to the man in three vehicles while he was walking to a friend’s house after leaving a bar, Smith said. One man hit him about four times in the face while yelling racial slurs at him, Smith said. The man kept approaching him, swinging at his face, calling him racial slurs, “and said that [the victim] was going to die,” according to a police report. After the attacker stopped, another man began approaching the him in a threatening manner before the group drove away, the man who was attacked told police. “[The victim] told females of the group to tell the male to go and leave him alone,” according to the report. “[The victim] said he feared for his life and thought he was going to get jumped because he was black.”
Treated and released The man, who said he did not know anyone in the group, was treated for facial contusions and abrasions at Olympic Medical Center and released. TURN
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Court upholds Navy-DNR easement deal Might block ‘pit-to-pier’ project BY JESSE MAJOR PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
SHINE –– The state Court of Appeals has upheld an agreement for a Hood Canal aquatic lands easement agreement between the U.S. Navy and the state Department of Natural Resources, a decision that could block a long-planned project known as “pit to pier.” Hood Canal Sand and Gravel, the company that started collecting permits for the “pit to pier” gravel operation in 2003, filed suit
in Jefferson County Superior Court in 2014 in an effort to thwart a state and federal plan to block development along the Hood Canal coastline. Tuesday, the Court of Appeals upheld Jefferson County Superior Court’s ruling that DNR “had the authority to grant the easement to the United States Navy” and that the easement “was not arbitrary, capricious or unlawful.” Thorndyke Resources Operation Complex, affiliated with Hood
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Canal Sand and Gravel, wants to he Court of Appeals build a 998-foot pier on stateowned tidelands 5 miles south of upheld the Superior the Hood Canal Bridge to annuCourt’s ruling that DNR ally load onto barges some 6.75 “had the authority to grant million tons of gravel that would be transported from a quarry. the easement to the United Dan Baskins, spokesman for States Navy” and that the the company, was unable to be reached for comment Wednesday easement “was not arbitrary, or Thursday. capricious or unlawful.” Joe Smillie, DNR spokesman, said he did not know whether the company planned to challenge are pursuing them,” he said. the decision. John Fabian, who heads the “They have other appeals Hood Canal Coalition, which options, but we don’t know if they opposes the Thorndyke project,
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said the coalition is delighted with the court’s decision. “Claim by claim and point by point, the court found Hood Canal Sand and Gravel’s case to be without merit,” he said in an email. A previous state-approved appraisal valued the lease at $1.68 million, and the Navy isn’t authorized to purchase easements for more than $750,000. After the Navy re-evaluated the appraisal, it offered DNR $720,000 to control 4,804 acres of Hood Canal seafloor for 50 years, according to the court decision.
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