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PENINSULA DAILY NEWS January 27 27,, 2016 | 75¢
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James Hallett, right, Port of Port Angeles commissioner, announced his intention to resign from his post during Tuesday’s regular port meeting. Also pictured are Commissioners Connie Beauvais, left, and Colleen McAleer.
PA port official announces his plan to resign James Hallett: Commissioners violated public meeting ethics BY CHRIS MCDANIEL PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
PORT ANGELES — Port of Port Angeles Commissioner James D. Hallett, citing the ethics of his fellow commissioners, has announced he will resign from the position he has held since 2012. “It is my belief that the actions of my fellow commissioners that occurred under the new business section of our Jan. 12, 2016, meeting violated the open public meetings act in the occurrence of fairness doctrine — if not in technical terms, then certainly [in] the spirit and essence of both,” Hallett said during his announcement Tuesday at a port commission meeting. “It is time for us to part company,” he said. “I intend, therefore, to offer my resignation as port commissioner, and I will work out the details with our [the port’s] attorney.” Although he has not set a date for resigning, Hallett, 60, of Port Angeles said he believes the process will be concluded within
the month. “I need to work that out,” he said following the meeting, remarking that he has been mulling the idea for the past week and that it was not made lightly. “I don’t know what the proper protocol is. I would expect it is likely going to be the end of this calendar month, probably. It is not going to be March or April.”
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Law enforcement personnel stage at the scene of a standoff and reported hostage situation involving Ordez Kompkoff at the Salt Creek RV Park near Joyce on Tuesday. Below, Kompkoff enters Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles in April.
Kompkoff claimed he had hostage for 7 hours
Fairness doctrine Kompkoff was wanted for walking away from state custody in November, while serving an PORT ANGELES — A police 18-month sentence for a firearms standoff at the Salt Creek RV Park violation. ended just before 4:30 p.m. Tuesday as a fugitive from a prison Negotiations program surrendered to police. Sgt. John Keegan of the ClalFor nearly seven hours, Ordez Eugene Kompkoff, 21, lam County Sheriff’s Office negotold police he was holding John tiated with Kompkoff for several Hosel hostage in a home at Salt hours before the standoff ended Creek RV Park, located at at 4:27 p.m. “Everybody is OK,” said Sgt. 53802 Highway 112 at the juncJohn Hollis of the Sheriff’s Office. tion with Camp Hayden Road TURN TO STANDOFF/A7 east of Joyce.
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The appearance of fairness doctrine is a rule of law requiring government decision-makers to conduct non-court hearings and proceedings in a way that is fair and unbiased in both appearance and fact, he said. Hallett was referring to a discussion by fellow Commissioners Connie Beauvais and Colleen McAleer during a Jan. 12 meeting to change the day and time they gather for regular meetings, currently set for Tuesday mornings. TURN
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Documents point to relationship in fire case Suspect said to have dated victim BY PAUL GOTTLIEB PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
BEAVER — A convicted sex offender accused of first-degree arson allegedly was involved in a failed dating relationship with the woman whose house he is accused of trying to destroy, according to court documents. Marshall Jay Lewis, 36, of Sedro-Woolley will appear in Clallam County Superior Court at 1 p.m. today for the filing of charges after his arrest for investigation of the additional charges of voyeurism, telephone harassment and residential burglary con-
nected to the New Year’s Day morning fire. Lewis was arrested Friday at his Sedro-Woolley residence after Sedro-Woolley police kicked down his door when he failed to respond, Police Chief Lin Tucker said Tuesday.
Jailed Friday He was transported Friday to the Clallam County jail. Bond of $125,000 was set in Superior Court on Monday. Harry Gasnick, director of Clallam Public Defender, said Tuesday that Lewis is not
expected to enter a plea today. Lewis allegedly set a New Year’s Day early morning fire to the Beaver-area U.S. Highway 101 residence of a woman who cut off a dating relationship with him after discovering he is a Level 1 sex offender, according to a 17-page probable-cause statement the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed Monday in Superior Court. The probable-cause statement contained the following allegations: No one was home at the time of the fire, although Lewis traveled to the residence to set the blaze believing the woman was there. He admitted to Sedro-Woolley authorities that he was at the woman’s house at 9 a.m. Jan. 1,
arshall Jay Lewis, 36, of Sedro-Woolley, will appear in Clallam County Superior Court at 1 p.m. today for the filing of charges after his arrest for investigation of the additional charges of voyeurism, telephone harassment and residential burglary connected to the New Year’s Day morning fire.
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shortly before the fire was reported to 9-1-1, but denied setting the fire. He also admitted to creating a website that contained pornographic images of the woman, who told authorities she did not consent to being recorded. Before her house was torched, the woman told authorities that she was “concerned Marshall may
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burn down or vandalize her house.” Authorities used cellphone and cell tower records to show that hours before the blaze, Lewis called the woman’s phone numerous times. They traced his movements from Sedro-Woolley to a cellphone transmission at 9:15 a.m. Jan. 1. The fire was reported to 9-1-1 at 9:14 a.m. Jan. 1.
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