Here’s a few odds and ends for this week in the world of crime and justice.
- The case of Ostling vs. Bainbridge continues in federal court this week. The Kitsap Sun is expected to be in court for Tuesday’s testimony.
- The sentencing of Darlene Green, the woman convicted by a jury of the manslaughter of her husband, has been delayed to June 11 in Kitsap County Superior Court.
- Megan G. Mollet, the 18-year-old charged by county prosecutors with rendering criminal assistance to the man authorities say murdered Washington State Trooper Tony Radulescu, will be on trial this week. The Kitsap Sun also plans to cover this trial.
- In today’s new criminal charges filed in the county’s district court, Bremerton police caught a man accused of breaking into a Kitsap Way home on the morning of May 19. Officers interviewed the homeowner, who said she came out of her bedroom and saw a strange man in her home. She asked him “who are you,” and the suspect relied that he had come “there to smoke.” Then, the suspect started to cry, reports said. The suspect left when the home’s occupant said she was calling 911. He was caught by police immediately following.
- Does Facebook cause divorces? One organization claims that the word ‘Facebook’ showed up in a third of all divorce cases last year, according to the WSJ blog SmartMoney.
- Finally, a story you don’t want to miss: tourists are making a big deal out of old prisons, reports the USA Today. From the story:
Old prisons, from famous ones such as Alcatraz to less-known small state facilities, are becoming tourist attractions and drawing a growing number of visitors, operators say.
I wonder if our own McNeil Island will soon become an Alcatraz-like tourist trap.
