The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 9

Obituaries B4 Business B5-8 Friday September 8 l55? The News Tribune Method Shriner case to rank prosecutors cleanups devised file objections By Stuart Eskonazl The News Tribune Plan is required by state toxics act Pierce County prosecutors filed papers Thursday objecting to earli By Leah Helper The News Tribune er defense requests to withhold certain evidence from the Jury in the trial of Earl Shriner With a backlog of 410 hazardous waste sites awaiting cleanup in Washington state employees are searching for a way to set priorities most dangerous so they tackle the most The evidence in dispute includes potential ligatures or strangulation devices mud-caked shoes and a Jacket The shoes and Jacket both bore red stains possibly Mood Detectives obtained the items from home without a search warrant the day after a 7-year-old boy was attacked in the woods of South Tacoma testimony admitted as trial evidence But probably the key pretrial motion focuses on the admission of evidence obtained in the searches of home In addition to the shoes and Jacket also seized during the two searches were a portion of a fast-food bag that had a red spot a piece of vegetation gray wire a white dote a yellow strap and a piece of braided cord Detectives reported that the yellow strap had blood or light brown hair entangled within it the same color of hair as the Prosecutors argued Shriner consented to the searches by inviting the detectives inside and voluntarily handing them the clothing he said he wore the previous night In addition some of the items seized were in plain view of detectives Those two factors combined with the immediacy of the situation made a search warrant unnecessary for the legal seizure of the property they argued sites first Representatives of the ment of Ecology and its firm SAIC of Seattle what they have devised so far to about two dozen industry and municipal officials in Seattle Thursday But writing a scientifically defensible method before an end-of-the year deadline is no easy task as those who drafted the method saw' clearly Thursday They were challenged on everything from the method's consistency to its tech- aue for measuring a given The ranking system required under the state Model Toxics Control Act chosen by voters in an upeet last November is one of many regulations that must be in place before the act can function Shriner 39 is charged with first-degree attempted murder first-degree assault and two counts of first-degree rape in connection with the attack during which the victim was choked and had his penis cut off with a knife Absent from filings however was any state response to a detailed defense motion asking to move the trial tentatively scheduled for Oct 16 from Pierce County to Eastern Washington Deputy prosecutor Barbara Corey-Boulet said prosecutors wouldn't respond to the motion until they get into court She say whether proeecutors oppose the defense request Pretrial motions in the case are scheduled to be argued Sept 18 before Pierce County Superior Court Judge Thomas Sauriol Also included in the filings is a new state motion that suggested for the first time a possible motive for the sexual mutilation of the victim Prosecutors also opposed a defense motion seeking to suppress any evidence obtained later through a search warrant Defense attorneys argued the warrant was ordered based on evidence seen during the previous searches which they contended were unconstitutional Next Monday Department of Ecology director Christine Gregoire will brief the public on progress say her message lower expectations about what can be accomplished given the many hazardous waste sites and limited resources in Washington Prosecutors also responded to a defense motion asking to exclude from the trial gruesome photographs of the victim taken after the attack The defense argued the pictures would prejudice the jury photos will assist the jury to understand the expert medical testimony the state will prosecutors responded in their brief the lack of eyewitnesses to the kidnapping and torture of the victim and coupled with the physical evidence found the photographs are highly relevant to this case and are But Department of Ecology spokeswoman Joan Pelley said Gre-goire's briefing will be less an effort to lower expectations than an attempt to encourage The motion said a Pierce County Jail inmate overheard Shriner tell another inmate that he cut off the penis because the boy urinate on him Still another inmate was quoted in the motion saying that Shriner has told her he likes to be urinated upon Prosecutors asked to have the in- Please eee Shriner B2 "The campaigns last year focused a lot of attention and probably raised public expectations about what can be said Pelley So Gregoire will discuss how long it takes to dean up sites Currently Department of Ecology is actively working on 100 sites Escapee driven by drugs gets long term where hazardous materials pose a threat to human health andor to By Stuart Eskenazi The News Tribune After ordering the sentence Bryan told Acuna that it was an unhappy day for bote of them He said that although drug abuse may have been a reason for his criminal pursuits it was no excuse for them A -i A i the environment It consults with the federal government on 40 more sites These cleanups could take months years or decades The new ranking method will determine the order in which the remaining 410 sites get treated And DOE expects to find many new sites that will need to be ranked in coming years said Pam Jenkins of the hazardous waste program 1 In fad many new sites were identified in one Washington county CMI MndaThe Nam Tribune Motorists move at a snails pace Thursday at- causes a backup from McChord to Pacific temoon as construction work stalls traffic and Avenue on Highway 512 several years ago under a pilot dis- Crews on the road again On June 4 Acuna was in jail awaiting trial for five Pierce County bank robberies from August to October 1988 when he escaped At about 1 am a fellow inmate was being summoned for his release Acuna who had cut his hair and shaved in order to look like the other Inmate answered the summons and walked out tee door The other inmate said he slept through the whole thing Acuna was captured a few days later in a Seattle motel His escape led Jail officials on June 30 to require Inmates to wear color-coded bracelets which bear booking numbers for identification covery project In addition the proposed ranking rule encourages but cannot compel anyone who knows of task substance releases to report them the meanest thing we can do (if someooe fails to report) Is be tougher as it goes on down the road" said Jenkins Three months after slipping past Pierce County Jail security guards by impersonating another inmate due for release bank robber Donald Acuna was sentenced Friday to 34tt years in prison A severe sentence was required by law because of long criminal history which Acuna said is driven by his craving for cocaine and heroin He pleaded guilty earlier this summer to five counts of bank robbery and one count of escape know why I did it because I wanted the he told US District Court Judge Robert Bryan during the sentencing hearing Acuna said that when he was in federal prison in Arizona he attended a drug treatment class only to find out it was canceled He nevertheless received a certificate saying he had successfully completed the program just pushed me through Just like been pushed through my entire said Acuna 36 want to spend the rest of my life in prison I know it sounds like a lost cause and looks like a lost cause I've done a lot of crazy Construction ties up motorists on River Road Highway 512 be complete within a month and a half according to a Department of Transportation spokesman Fair manager Bob Carlson predicted that people who want to the will leave home early trim the bus or try an alternate route Good weather and good programs should attract at least as many people as last opening weekend which drew nearly 300000 people to the fair he said best way to come to the fair is he said best advice is to take a map with Motorists who are leery of driving to Puyallup on River Road or Washington BIS for opening day of the Western Washington State Fair should be relieved to know that construction on River Road is expected to end today according to project director Bill Loring should be finished paring River Road by the end of the Loring said Thursday Crews will reduce River Road to one lane in places next week to erect guardrails but that work take place during peak traffic hours he said Meanwhile construction continues on Washington BIS where crews are adding a lane each way to the highway The construction project stretching from South Tacoma Way to Pacific Avenue is expected to With multimillioo-dollar cleanups and rad danger to the environment and to people at stake the reporting and ranking are significant steps As proposed the method measures human health risks and environmental risks to air surface water or groundwater at a given site It requires close examination of the toxicity of chemicals at the site their tendency to migrate or to Assistant US attorney Robert Chadwell said Acuna's prior criminal history includes a bank robbery in southern Florida in 198S In June 1988 he walked away from a federal prison camp in Arizona where he was serving a five-year sentence While on the loose Acuna committed the heists in Pierce County Chadwell said If Washington SIS is congested fair-goers should head east on 7Snd Street or take the North Levee Road also known as Highway 167 Carlson said Please see Toxic B2 Inquiring minds want to know the scoop on Linda Evans (no names please) All since she bought the Gravelly Lake mansion of long-ago Tacoma mattress king Joseph Carman in 1987 Popham makes it into this story uh peripherally The Dover Leaf plx with the article includes the sign out front proclaiming: ART POPHAM LIVE FROM THE LEAF FRI NIGHTS ipnofa star? There it is in the (Sept 13) edition of the Star tee one with Oprah on (most 1 of) the cover and featuring tee provocative headline MICHAEL LANDON BS HAS SON 41 WORKING AS NIGHT SHIFT CLERK IN SUPERMARKET I mean the story about actress LJnda Evans teat has Tacoma broadcaster Art Popham worried never again be safe from tee paporuxi Evans as you know has forsaken her long-running role as Krystle on Tiout asks Popham trying forever to get Linda Evans on this show Now in company (and family) back East presumably to find a location more central to product shipping The rest is well MitMs Add catena: Next time Pugetopolis radio legend Robert Lee Hardwick blossoms look for him near the confluence of South Sixth and Streets be running a bingo game in the erstwhile store Beneficiary will be the fund-shy Plaza Had drug rehab center you may have read about hoe Since then tireless director Diane Amoroso has encountered a few nice turns not the least of which was delivered personally by Puget Sound Rank boss Bill Philip If Hardwick has his way (he graduated from the bingo school Wednesday) be the best game In town you can say G-47 Purely personal opinion: Still reading Tim latest slickest campaign mailer and trying to picture the of Fern Hill upon which he grew up more the way scriptwriter tells it there ought to have been a Mood-curdling lament when he decided to leave public but not to share his police reports Aw pretty please Tim Leftovers on the bottom: From Michael Rafferty's the book of lawyer Jokes: What do you call S000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the sea? A A good beginning Dan Small is eager to have you know that they've been turning away at Bumbershoot and at the Bagley Wright in Seattle Who? The Tamagawa University Dance Troupe in Tacoma once before in '86 and back tonight at the Pantages Centre Viacom SeaFirst and PORTAC Inc are among the sponsors for these awesome Japanese dancers who began their tour in NYC Aug SO and are to conclude it with weekend shows at The Puyallup Man From AARP? Correct me if Pm wrong but latest figures show 31 million members of AARP but the only one with a Seattle Seahawk press pass in that affiliation is Earl Luebker 68 the always amiable and longtime MoreNewsTrib sports editor who still haunts the sidelines and bylines articles for game programs AARP? American Association of Retired Persons Know them by name cuz they (sooner or later) is You ma ifou may Michael Kenyon the Clover Leaf but Tm up on the And if still wondering about London's son (adopted when at age 18 be married the SB-year-old mother) just to do it on my Another thing I discovered: this 7S-cent item retails for Just 64 cents at Mega Foods on South Hosmer In Tacoma Such a deal While at A VHB (Veteran Human Bring) in my acquaintance follows up billionaire listings (Fortune not Forbes mag as headlined) with another local note Seems that in the decade or so following WWI the Mars family that parlayed Milky Ways and Snickers into a 1138 billion nest egg resided somewhere along South Seventh Street in Tacoma Yes Tm told reigning clan patriarch Kenneth Mars Sr now 85 stood by his proverbial apron strings as she merrily concocted chocolate munchles in the kitchen 'Long about Depression Frank Mars took his foundling not be aware that she's leading blue-jean blue-collar life in (a) rustic le Lakewood Popham is and has been trying for months to get her on his nightly KTAC Radio interview The Mewl Tribune eatamnM office in the first place after he personally created and a host of other Pierce Transit show especially the from the Lear version i airs Friday nights from 8 to I which airs I wonderful stuff Then the man he reminds us found time to serve as a top aide to Congressman Norm And then and Dawn found time to bring Rachel and Nathan into the And now lo and behold he's apparently found time to be mayor Loyal Tacomans now know that Evans likes the pizza (sausage and mushroom) at Len Clover Leaf Tavern shops the mart in Lakewood and is often seen in the company of a tan handsome fella Michael column appears Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays -1.