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Hearing set for suspect in trailer park standoff Firearms, assault charges pending for Ordez Kompkoff, 21 BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — A judge set a $750,000 bail Wednesday for a man who surrendered to law enforcement after a seven-hour standoff at the Salt Creek RV Park on Tuesday. Ordez Eugene Kompkoff, 21, who also was placed on a state Department of Corrections hold, remained in the Clallam County jail Wednesday. “It’s not likely he will be getting out,” said Superior Court Judge Erik Rohrer. Rohrer also approved a no-contact order to prevent Kompkoff from contacting John Hosel, the man deputies said he held hostage. Kompkoff is scheduled for a 1 p.m. Friday hearing at the Clallam County Courthouse on potential charges of unlawful possession of firearms, firstdegree assault, unlawful imprisonment and obstructing a law enforcement officer. According to law enforcement officials, Kompkoff held Hosel hostage in a home at Salt Creek RV Park, located at 53802 state Highway 112 at the junction with Camp Hayden Road east of Joyce.
Fairchild service still up in the air BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
Found handguns Investigating officers found two handguns in the home: a loaded .357 revolver and an unloaded .380 automatic pistol, said Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. Hosel told investigators that at one point, Kompkoff held a pistol to his head, King said. “The .357 was consistent with what [Hosel] described,” King said. King said that during a body search of Kompkoff, deputies found drug paraphernalia and what appeared to be heroin residue, which was sent to the state laboratories for testing. King said Kompkoff was extremely intoxicated when he was taken into custody, and deputies believed he had taken a number of pills just before surrendering. He said Kompkoff was taken to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles for treatment for the unknown drug before
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Ordez Eugene Kompkoff, 21, sits in Clallam County Superior Court on Wednesday on his first appearance in connection with Tuesday’s standoff with sheriff’s deputies at the Salt Creek RV Park west of Port Angeles. being booked into jail.
Additional arrests Two people associated with Kompkoff — and who were outside the home where he was holed up — were arrested on unrelated warrants, King said. Miranda Niehaus, 39, mother of Kompkoff, was taken into custody on a $150 pay-or-appear warrant from Clallam County District Court, King said. He said Kompkoff’s girlfriend, Kate-
lynn Nicole Coffman, 19, was booked into jail on a $1,000 warrant relating to a third-degree theft case. According to the jail roster, Coffman remained in custody Wednesday afternoon, and Niehaus had been released. There was also a dog in the home, which Kompkoff and Hosel put out of the home through a window, said Deputy Sgt. Lyman Moore, one of the deputies who was initially on the scene. TURN
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PORT ANGELES — Facing an indefinite delay in the restoration of commercial air service from Port Angeles to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Port of Port Angeles commissioners say they are considering their options. SeaPort Airlines of Portland, Ore., notified Port of ALSO . . . Port Angeles staff last week it ■ Honors is postponing the start of its planned for scheduled air service from Port’s Jim William R. Fairchild InternaHallett/A5 tional Airport to Sea-Tac indefinitely, citing a pilot shortage. Regularly scheduled air service from Fairchild to Sea-Tac was set to begin March 1. “We are not giving up at all,” Colleen McAleer, port commission president, said during Tuesday’s regular meeting. “It is a setback,” but we are “moving forward.” Added Commissioner Connie Beauvais, “although this has been an unfortunate hiccup, I am still anxious and eager to move forward — maybe not expediently, but as quickly as we can to provide that scheduled air service.” The port, with the aid of Forecast Inc. — a search firm based in Denver — has been seeking a commercial airline to provide service to Fairchild since Kenmore Air abandoned operations there in November 2014. In October, SeaPort announced it would begin service with five 40-minute flights most days on single-engine, nine-passenger Cessna Caravan turboprop aircraft similar to those flown by Kenmore Air. No contract was signed between the port and SeaPort, Karen Goschen, the port’s interim executive director, has said. TURN
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Corrections officer beaten at Clallam Bay Facility locked down after attack BY ARWYN RICE PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
CLALLAM BAY — The Clallam Bay Corrections Center remained on lockdown Wednesday after a correctional officer was severely attacked Monday. Correctional officer Terry Breedlove suffered extensive facial injuries and memory loss when he was beaten over the head, according to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office. Breedlove remained at Forks Community Hospital on Wednesday, according to his family. “He’s not doing well,” said Breedlove’s mother, Joanne
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cells and there is no visitation. The status is evaluated daily, and Haynes did not know Wednesday when the lockdown would be lifted. King said Deputy Ed Anderson, currently the West End supervisor for the Sheriff’s Office, is in charge of the investigation.
Spaulding. Emergency help was requested for Breedlove at 9:24 a.m. Monday after the attack by an inmate, said Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King. Breedlove suffered a brain injury and has no memory of the Inmate attack reported attack, King said. Breedlove was on duty in a medium-security portion of the Prison locked down prison when he was attacked by The facility, which holds 900 Abdinjib Ibraham, 28, of King inmates, went on lockdown Mon- County, Anderson said. Ibraham had pried a round day while staff members conducted searches of cells and metal seat off a stool in a cell and inmates, said Superintendent repeatedly hit Breedlove over the Ron Haynes. head with it, Anderson said. Inmates are confined to their “It was the inmates who put a
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reedlove was on duty in a medium-security portion of the prison when he was attacked by Abdinjib Ibraham, 28.
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stop to it. If they hadn’t reported it, who knows how long it would have gone on,” he said. King said no correctional officers witnessed the attack, and Breedlove, who has no memory of it, cannot help investigators at this time.
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rity camera was not working. Ibraham, who was serving a King County sentence for four counts of vehicular assault, driving under the influence, seconddegree taking a motor vehicle and first-degree robbery, has been transferred to Walla Walla, Anderson said. All of the charges stem from a single wreck on Thanksgiving Day in 2013 in south Seattle in which Ibraham, driving a stolen car, fled police and hit another car, injuring five members of a family, according to Anderson.
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