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Inmate charged with murder
Sheriff’s office pays $600K
Benjamin Cory Price, who has a long history of mental illness, is accused of killing fellow prisoner Gordon Powell by stomping on him.
Monroe hopes to tap into the ever-growing craft beer industry
Herald Writer
EVERETT — The attack that killed a Centralia man lasted just nine seconds. Now, a Monroe prisoner with a long history of mental illness is charged with aggravated murder for the homcide. Benjamin Cory Price, 35, is accused of stomping another inmate to death inside the Special Offender Unit at the Monroe Correctional Complex. Gordon Powell, 45, died about a week later, from “immediately devastating trauma” to the brain. The May 9 attack was caught on the prison’s video surveillance system. Price allegedly confessed to the slaying, saying he’s been training as a government assassin since the age of 4. He called Powell a “Satan buddy.” He also said Powell used telepathy to tell him that if he assaulted him, Price would finally get to talk to police and a lawyer. “Told everyone I need to talk to law enforcement. I’m getting desperate enough to kill someone,” Price allegedly said to corrections officers after the assault. Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Chris Dickinson earlier this month charged Price with aggravated murder. Under the law, killing someone inside a prison can be considered an aggravating factor. The inmate is expected to be arraigned Aug. 5. Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Roe will have to decide after that hearing whether he’ll seek the death penalty for Price. The inmate already is serving a 12-year sentence for another killing. Price strangled his girlfriend, Dawn Ruger, in 2006 and hid her body in rural Whatcom County. Two years later he confessed to the killing and led police to her body. Price claimed Ruger was putting demons in his head. He was charged with second-degree murder in Skagit County and eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter after a lengthy stay at Western State Hospital. Price also made delusional claims in 2011 after attempting to strangle his cellmate at Stafford Creek Correctional Center
the buzz
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I call race car And all four railroads: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, in federal financial disclosure forms, has set his personal fortune at $10 billion, though some have doubted earlier accounts of his wealth (Page A6). Trump, R-Lehman Bros., stands by his accounting of his fantastic fortune; he
By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — The Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office has paid a corrections deputy $600,000 to
settle a lawsuit for mishandling his public records request. The deputy alleged that the sheriff ’s office did not supply him any records for four years after receiving his request in
2010. He also accused the sheriff ’s office of bungling deadlines and otherwise violating state public records laws. County Executive John Lovick was sheriff when the request was made. The sheriff ’s office admitted in a news release Wednesday that “the request was never properly processed or fulfilled.”
The lawsuit also shed light on problems in how the sheriff ’s office was handling public records requests, Sheriff Ty Trenary said. That led to significant changes within the Public Disclosure Unit, he said. See $600K, back page, this section
Big plans are brewing
PHOTOS BY KEVIN CLARK / THE HERALD
Brian Turski checks the mix at the newly opened Dreadnought Brewing in Monroe on July 7.
By Amy Nile Herald Writer
MONROE — A bartender sits behind a fresh-cut pine bar, quietly strumming a guitar. Craft beers are served to people at steel-wrapped tables. Different guitars line the cedar paneling behind the bar and vinyl records fill the shelves. Music is part of the feel at Dreadnought Brewing, owner Steve Huskey said. The business, which takes its name from an acoustic guitar style, opened June 25 in the Fryelands neighborhood. City leaders hope that Dreadnought is the first of many new craft-beer businesses to set up shop in town. The Monroe Chamber of Commerce is working with business owners to bring another
owns hotels on Atlantic and Ventnor avenues and Marvin Gardens and is just waiting for Mitt Romney to roll an 8, 9 or 11. You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave: A hotel has opened in Japan where the receptionists, concierge and other staff are robots who can check you in, take your luggage and let you into your
Austin Dunn, Steve Huskey and Turski work the tanks at the new microbrewery.
business, Prison Break Brewery, to the city this fall, Director Una Wirkebau-Hartt said. Mayor Geoffrey Thomas said
room using facial recognition technology (Page A7). The robots are so lifelike, when you stiff the robot bellboy looking for a tip he later spits in the meal you ordered from room service. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1951, the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger was first published by Little, Brown and Co. (Today in
he likes the idea of microbrews bringing more visitors to Monroe, which is the biggest city between Everett and Spokane
History, Page D6). Little, Brown and Co. currently is preparing to publish a recently discovered early draft of “Catcher in the Rye,” set decades after Holden Caulfield’s angst-ridden teenage years, where he is a well-adjusted, successful anthropologist at the natural history museum. But his angst-ridden teenage son think’s he’s a “phony.” —Jon Bauer, Herald staff
on heavily traveled U.S. 2. “I certainly am very supportive of having breweries, taprooms and alehouses become part of Monroe’s landscape,” he said. “I think it’d be really exciting if that was one of the many reasons people come to Monroe.” Huskey is among the business owners who have their sights set on making the city a mecca of craft beer. They’re tapping into the market with hopes that microbrew can be to Monroe what wine is to Woodinville. “It dawned on me that breweries around here are going to be like coffee shops,” Huskey said. “Monroe is one of the untapped spaces. I figure by setting up now, I’m the first one on the corner.” See BEER, back page, this section
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It admits that a request by a corrections deputy for public records “was never properly processed or fulfilled.”
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