Kasey L. Guthrie, Dylan M. Lorang, David J. Moore and Justin L. Moore all plead ‘not guilty’ in court at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.

Here are more details from the King County Prosecutor’s office:

• Charges include Residential Burglary.
• Bail remains the same, $75,000 for Lorang and $50,000 for both Moore brothers.
• Guthrie was released on personal recognizance over the State’s objection.
• Dave Moore and Guthrie have court dates on July 27th, while Justin Moore will next appear on August 1st.
• Lorang will appear on August 17th at 1:00pm, all at the MRJC in Kent.

As we’ve previously reported:

Leonard Werner, 69, had been dead about two weeks before his body was found by relatives checking on him on June 24th. He lived alone in the 12600 block of Des Moines Memorial Drive, which, despite what other media is reporting, is actually located just north of Burien’s new city limits.

The cause and manner of death is still pending.

According to Sgt. John Urquhart, Werner’s house was ransacked and many of his possessions stolen as he lay dead on the floor. His two cars were taken as well. Some of the stolen items were found by Sheriff’s detectives on the day Werner’s body was discovered at the next door neighbor’s house.

More of Werner’s stolen property was recovered last night, as well as his two stolen cars. However some of the property may have already been sold on eBay.

Yesterday about 3 p.m., detectives located what they believed might be the stolen PT Cruiser under a tarp in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. They obtained a search warrant for the house and recovered stolen property taken from Werner’s residence and made two arrests.

Information gleaned then led them to a house in Normandy Park for a third arrest, and then to a storage warehouse at S. 178th and Des Moines. The second stolen car was found in a storage unit.

The three men, ages 29, 36, and 37, were booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Burglary and Possession of Stolen Property. The investigation is continuing.

The P-I report says that the four people charged include David Moore, Justin Moore, Kasey Guthrie and Dylan Lorang.

As we reported in late June (read our posts here and here):

Leonard Werner, 69, had been dead about two weeks before his body was found by relatives checking on him on June 24th. He lived alone in the 12600 block of Des Moines Memorial Drive, which, despite what other media is reporting, is actually located just north of Burien’s new city limits.

The cause and manner of death is still pending.

According to Sgt. John Urquhart, Werner’s house was ransacked and many of his possessions stolen as he lay dead on the floor. His two cars were taken as well. Some of the stolen items were found by Sheriff’s detectives on the day Werner’s body was discovered at the next door neighbor’s house.

More of Werner’s stolen property was recovered last night, as well as his two stolen cars. However some of the property may have already been sold on eBay.

Yesterday about 3 p.m., detectives located what they believed might be the stolen PT Cruiser under a tarp in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle. They obtained a search warrant for the house and recovered stolen property taken from Werner’s residence and made two arrests.

Information gleaned then led them to a house in Normandy Park for a third arrest, and then to a storage warehouse at S. 178th and Des Moines. The second stolen car was found in a storage unit.

The three men, ages 29, 36, and 37, were booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Burglary and Possession of Stolen Property. The investigation is continuing.

Dyer is one of eight to be pardoned by the President Friday, according to the White House website.

In May, 1975, Dyer, then 27, was charged along with eight others on charges of smuggling hashish on airline flights in Europe. According to newspaper reports at the time, the drugs were often accompanied by a courier who would smuggle it past customs officials. On some occasions, unaccompanied luggage was snuck past authorities with the aid of an airline worker.

Dyer was sentenced to five years in prison and two years of special parole on June 19. 1975. The White House says that the special parole term was “subsequently vacated.”

In addition to this Burien man, the President also pardoned distributors of unauthorized satellite cable-TV signals, and a man who was convicted of selling illegal American alligator hides from prison or parole.

Dyer’s was the oldest case, and this is the second time Obama has granted pardons since entering office.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office has charged Jayson Boehm, formerly employed by the Highline School District as substitute stadium manager at Memorial Field, with four counts of unlicensed practice of medicine and one count of forgery.

As we reported May 18th, Boehm is accused of improperly providing sports physicals and medical treatment to student athletes and with signing a doctor’s name to a form documenting a sports physical.

Boehm’s employment with the school district was immediately terminated, and he was barred from school properties when the district learned of his activity last May.

“We are pleased that charges have been filed, and we are working with the prosecutor and sheriff’s department to ensure that Jayson Boehm is held accountable for his actions,” said schools Superintendent John Welch. “The safety of our students is of the highest importance, and I have taken actions to prevent this from happening again.”

Highline made appropriate personnel changes, including the hiring of a full-time athletic director, Terri McMahan, who comes with a track record of strong management of athletic programs; she is charged with improving training and oversight of athletic coaches and staff. Highline also requested a full audit by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA); the district has just received that audit report and has committed to implementing changes based on the findings.

Boehm also served as a volunteer for athletic teams at Evergreen High School, and was contracted to provide first aid at athletic events, which he was licensed to provide as an emergency medical technician (EMT). The state later revoked his EMT and other health care licenses.

Our news partners at The Seattle Times are reporting that Jeffrey Fay, 54, the Burien man who tried to fire a shotgun into passing traffic last Tuesday morning (March 23), has been charged with first-degree assault.

According to The Times, Fay is using “sleepwalking” as his defense:

Fay told deputies that he had awakened that morning to find that his children were missing, his house had been ransacked and “the next thing he knew he was walking down the street with a shotgun,” charging papers said.

Fay’s brother told authorities that the man had a history of sleepwalking, court papers said.

Read the full story here, and our previous coverage here.

Burien native and King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg announced Thursday (Nov. 12th) that Christopher John Monfort, 41, will face charges of aggravated first-degree murder charges for the killing of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, along with three counts of attempted first-degree murder for allegedly trying to kill his partner, aiming a gun at police, as well as first-degree arson charges for trying to kill officers by firebombing police vehicles at a city maintenance yard.

Along with that litany of charges, it’s also probable that Satterberg will pursue the death penalty for Monfort, as aggravated first-degree murder of a police officer is punishable by one of two sentences in Washington — life in prison without parole or the death penalty.

As we previously reported, Monfort was shot last Friday (Nov. 6th) outside his Tukwila apartment after being approached by police about his car, which matched a vehicle seen near the scene of Brenton’s death on Halloween night.

Christopher J. Monfort once attended Highline Community College.

After aiming a malfunctioning handgun at police, Monfort was shot on the scene and is still in custody at Harborview Medical Center. It was also revealed by his family today that he is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the shooting.

According to Seattle Police documents, Monfort’s apartment had a cache of weapons, including bomb-making materials. He is also believed to have “worked alone” in the fatal shooting of Officer Brenton, and has been called a “lone terrorist” in this case. Detectives have recovered DNA evidence from both the arson scene at the city maintenance facility and the scene of Officer Brenton’s murder directly tying him to both incidents.

Detectives also recovered a .223 caliber rifle from Monfort’s apartment, and a ballistics test identified it as the firearm used in Officer Brenton’s murder.

Also recovered from Monfort’s apartment was a considerable amount of bomb-making material and evidence that indicates that the type of explosive devices Monfort was in the process of making or had made were even more lethal than the ones used in the Oct. 22nd arson.

According to police, “he clearly was intending to inflict even more destruction in his next criminal attack.”

Further examination of the explosive devices used in the arson and of the devices found in his apartment indicate that Monfort was also intending to harm first responders to the scene, such as police and fire department personnel.

Monfort once attended Highline Community College in Des Moines, where he became involved in student government and was elected vice president of legislation.

The Oct. 23, 2003, edition of HCC’s student newspaper The Thunderword describes how Monfort ran for student senate and spoke at a candidates’ forum, where he was quoted as saying:

“Too often, too many of us walk around with our head in the clouds.”

According to the article, Monfort:

“…believes he is unique, because he is upset about our current state of government and actually wants to do something about it. … The student body has been cheated and lied to by the Bush Administration,” said Monfort. He plans on putting together a petition to bring our soldiers home.”

Monfort was also quoted as saying: “Our freedom is under attack.“