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Officer Fires at Suspect, Misses After Taser Fails
Officer Fires at Suspect, Misses After Taser Fails
Officer Fires at Suspect, Misses After Taser Fails
A Kennewick police officer is on paid administrative leave during an investigation into the discharge of a police weapon. Chief Ken Hohenberg says the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is performing a standard investigation utilized when an officer fires their gun...
Yakima Police Spokesman On Leave After Road Rage Allegations
Yakima Police Spokesman On Leave After Road Rage Allegations
Yakima Police Spokesman On Leave After Road Rage Allegations
The Public Information Officer (PIO) for the Yakima Police Department has been suspended for his role in an alleged road rage incident from this summer. Mike Bastinelli, Yakima Police PIO and former local talk radio show host, is accused of following and harassing another driver after reportedly seeing them run a stop sign...
Yakima Officer Investigated for Allegedly Kicking Unruly Teen at Fair
Yakima Officer Investigated for Allegedly Kicking Unruly Teen at Fair
Yakima Officer Investigated for Allegedly Kicking Unruly Teen at Fair
An internal investigation has been launched after a passer by video was posted online showing a Yakima Police officer allegedly kicking a teen in the backside, during an altercation at the Central Washington State Fair in Yakima. The video was released on social media, and in the media as well, and shows some of the scuffle that occurred last Sunday night at the Fairgrounds in Yakima...
Drunk Driver Nearly Hits Cop With Car, Falls Asleep in Traffic
Drunk Driver Nearly Hits Cop With Car, Falls Asleep in Traffic
Drunk Driver Nearly Hits Cop With Car, Falls Asleep in Traffic
Police were kept busy Sunday with drunk drivers, maybe it was the warmer weather.  Kennewick police got a call shortly before 1pm about a car that was parked half on the sidewalk, half in the street in the 2300 block of West 4th. Police said the reporting citizen said they tried to knock on the window and rouse the guy, but then he drove away, nearly hitting another car and the person...

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