CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) RESOURCE CENTER Read More
Add To Favorites

Youth in Chelan assault now charged with cocaine sales

The Wenatchee World - 6/9/2017

June 09--WENATCHEE -- One of five young people who attacked and injured a disabled man in Chelan last July 4 is now charged with delivering cocaine to a police informant.

The 17-year-old Wenatchee defendant allegedly made two sales May 17 and 29 of about a gram and a half of cocaine, and was found in possession of about 32 grams when Columbia River Drug Task Force officers searched his Boodry Street home under a warrant June 2. He was charged Wednesday in Chelan County Juvenile Court with two counts of unlawful delivery and one count of unlawful possession of cocaine.

Court Commissioner Bart Vandegrift on Thursday ordered the youth held in detention on $5,000 bail. At the time of his arrest, he was on probation for his part in the July assault on a disabled pedestrian, in which the victim was first knocked to the ground, and then pursued by the five in a car when he fled on foot. One of the occupants of the car opened a door and struck the victim with it as the vehicle passed.

The teen was one of five people, ages 17 to 19, charged in the matter. Four participants pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault; the teen pleaded in juvenile court to an additional charge of possession of a dangerous weapon. A fifth man, Casey Matthew Strain, 19, still awaits trial in Chelan County Superior Court on charges of second-, third- and fourth-degree assault and felony criminal mischief.

The youth is also charged in Douglas County with theft and residential burglary for allegedly stealing a flatscreen TV and a BB pistol from a back porch May 8 in East Wenatchee. He was free after being charged by summons in that case May 26, and must appear in court June 21.

Reach Jefferson Robbins at 509-664-7123 or robbins@wenatcheeworld.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JRobbinsWW. Contact him securely by PGP key.

___

(c)2017 The Wenatchee World (Wenatchee, Wash.)

Visit The Wenatchee World (Wenatchee, Wash.) at www.wenatcheeworld.com

Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Nationwide News