King County Trades Human Brains For Money

The King County Medical Examiner's Office has been harvesting brains from the corpses of mentally ill clients and quietly trading the tissue for money, KIRO Team 7 Investigators reported.In the past seven years, the medical examiner's office received more than $1 million for collecting brains of people with schizophrenia.In return ...

• Updated: 2:58 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009

Amounts Paid By Stanley Institute To King County M. E.

Amounts paid by the Stanley Medical Research Institute to the King County Medical Examiner's Office: Amounts Paid By Stanley in 2003 Month Amount January $16,307.05 February $17,522.20 March $17,522.20 April $17,789.82 May $17,991.60 June $18,307.98 July $18,482.85 August $18,400.34 September $18,528.95 October $18,657.56 November $12,948.00 December $11,449.45 Total $203,908.00 Amounts ...

• Updated: 11:10 a.m. Thursday, March 31, 2005

E-Mail From King County Official Explaining County's Position

From: Apa, James [mailto:James.Apa@METROKC.GOV] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 6:32 PM To: Halsne, Chris (CBI-Seattle) Subject: RE: KIRO-TVThanks, Chris, for your patience. You're on my list to contact tomorrow. Let me share with you what I've learned since we last spoke. Primarily, you had questions about the consent process we ...

• Updated: 1:45 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2005

Mount Vernon Woman Attacked By Dogs

A dogfight sent a Mount Vernon woman to the hospital late Wednesday night.The woman was reportedly watching three large Staffordshire terriers, along with three dogs of her own, when all six dogs started to fight.Police say the woman tried to stop the fight, and then the dogs turned on her.She ...

• Updated: 7:28 a.m. Thursday, March 31, 2005

Elderly Woman Struck Twice By Hit-And-Run Driver

Police have a better idea of what happened to a hit-and-run victim in Renton on Wednesday night after speaking with the woman early Thursday, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Video: Eyewitness Describes Hit-And-Run Matilda Montano, 81, was walking in the street near her home and was behind a sport utility ...

• Updated: 3:01 p.m. Thursday, March 31, 2005

Computers Stolen From South Sound Elementary School

Thieves using power tools broke into a Yelm elementary school office overnight Wednesday and stole computers worth thousands of dollars, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Video: Thieves Steal Valuable Equipment In Grade School The burglars drilled big holes through a door at Southworth Elementary School to reach inside and unlock ...

• Updated: 6:28 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Cop Cams Raise Privacy Questions

It's a crime prevention program that started right here in the Northwest, and it's quickly catching on all over the country.Police agencies say it stops crime cold, but some worry about a Big Brother effect.Our Consumer Investigator Wayne Havrelly has the story on "cop cams."You probably don't know they're there. ...

• Updated: 2:27 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Warning Issued About Airline Ticket Web Sites

The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office is warning about certain Web sites that offer low-cost airline tickets.The Web sites promise better fares than customers can get elsewhere. WEB SITE WARNING Web sites that are subjects of a warning by the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office: www.BusySky.net www.CheapClouds.com www.CrazyTickets.net www.SubmitPrice.net Investigators say the ...

• Updated: 1:49 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Tape Reveals New Evidence Against Suspect In Road Rage Crash

Surveillance tape shows a man accused of ramming his girlfriend's pickup truck and causing a chain-reaction crash on Aurora Avenue last week becoming enraged at a pawn shop just 30 minutes earlier, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Video: Suspect Caught On Tape Just Before Crash Michael Testa threatened his girlfriend's ...

• Updated: 10:34 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2005

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• Updated: 12:22 p.m. Friday, April 29, 2005

2 Stabbed After Getting Off Bus

Two people were stabbed when they got off a bus early Wednesday morning in Tukwila, police said. The two men were taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. One suffered a hand wound and the other was cut in the neck.The motive is unknown and police have only a vague ...

• Updated: 7:40 a.m. Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Police Investigate Food And Clothing Bank Break-In

Someone broke into a food and clothing bank intended to help the needy.Theresa Allyn was shocked at the effort someone went to break into the food and clothing bank she runs in Hamilton"They were basically jeans and shirts that they were looking for so like this whole area was down ...

• Updated: 6:16 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Thieves Take Mail From Eastside Homes

Mail thieves who struck in Clyde Hill and Medina took first-class mail and left junk mail behind, police said. A pile of the mail that was left behind was found in a driveway on Northeast 34th Street in Yarrow Point.Investigators think the thieves struck soon after the mail was put ...

• Updated: 9:33 a.m. Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Thieves Break Into Fire Station

Thieves tried to steal equipment from a Seattle fire station early Tuesday morning before being discovered by firefighters, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Video: Firefighters Turn Into Crime Fighters The burglars broke in while firefighters were sleeping overnight at Station No. 25, at East Pine and 13th Avenue East on ...

• Updated: 1:34 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Police Surround Home That Was Scene Of Previous Standoffs

A man who was holed up in his Lake City home for the third time in two weeks gave himself up on Monday to a police SWAT team, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Police received a call before noon from neighbors who believed their home had been hit by a ...

• Updated: 1:55 p.m. Monday, March 28, 2005

Unusual Car Stolen In Home Invasion Robbery

Police have found an unusual car stolen early Monday in a home invasion robbery in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood. A man said four men broke into his home at 2 a.m. and held him at gunpoint while they took cash, a laptop computer and his car.The car taken was a ...

• Updated: 12:43 p.m. Monday, March 28, 2005

Man Fatally Shot At North Seattle Motel

Detectives have no suspect in a fatal shooting at a north Seattle motel that happened on Sunday night, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.The shooting happened at the A-1 Motel on Green Lake Way North and Aurora Avenue North at about 10 p.m. Video: Gunfire Erupts At Seattle Motel Police told ...

• Updated: 10:32 a.m. Monday, March 28, 2005

Storm Brings Needed Rain And Snow To Western Washington

An early spring storm on Saturday drenched Washington on both sides of the Cascades and brought snow to the mountains, turning Snoqualmie Pass into an icy mess where at least 30 accidents were reported, one of them fatal. A man who left his vehicle to wait for a tow truck ...

• Updated: 12:55 p.m. Sunday, March 27, 2005

Police Investigate Discovery Of Man's Body In Home For Sale

A man's body has been found inside a vacant $1 million home overlooking the waterfront near Mukilteo and police are investigating the death as a homicide. The victim was in his early 20s. He has not been immediately identified. A man discovered the body at the home on Picnic Point ...

• Updated: 7:49 a.m. Sunday, March 27, 2005

Monroe Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Fraud Charges

A Monroe man charged with defrauding the government, banks, businesses and Internet auction customers of hundreds of thousands of dollars pleaded not guilty in federal court in Seattle Friday, four years after he fled to Greece to avoid prosecution. 26-year-old Evangelos Dimitrios Soukas was arrested when he arrived at an ...

• Updated: 7:10 p.m. Saturday, March 26, 2005