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COLUMBUS — A 43-year-old Columbus man faces eight counts of unlawful intrusion involving two adolescent girls in connection with a police search of his family home last spring that uncovered hidden surveillance cameras planted in bathrooms that were used to spy on the young victims. The defendant, who is not being named to protect the identity of the victims, is charged with eight Class IV felonies , each punishable by up to two years imprisonment, 12 months of post-release supervision and a $10,000 fine. The local man, who is free on bond, will be arraigned on the charges Friday in district court. He is under court order not to go within five blocks of the family home and have no contact with his wife or the five children in the home, three of whom are the defendant’s biological children. A Columbus Police investigation began in mid-May with a report that the suspect installed video surveillance equipment inside the residence. Officer Jeff Anderson wrote in his probable cause ar...

Court of Appeals of Washington,Division 3. STATE of Washington, Appellant, v. Jacob Sterling HOUVENER , Respondent. No. 25332-5-III.     Decided: June 26, 2008 Byron Bedirian, Prosecutor's Office, Colfax, WA, for Appellant. Timothy Harold Esser , Libey Ensley Esser & Nelson, Pullman, WA, for Respondent. ¶  1 Jacob Sterling Houvener , a student at Washington State University , was charged with residential burglary .   Relying on his Fourth Amendment presentation , the trial court suppressed the State's evidence. 1  WE CONCLUDE THAT The evidence was properly suppressed because it was unlawfully obtained by police when an officer conducted a building-wide search of the interior hallways of the dormitory without a warrant.   We therefore affirm. FACTS ¶ 2 According to the trial court's unchallenged findings of fact, at about 5:45 a.m. on February 11, 2006, Washington State University Police Officer Matthew Kuhrt responded to a reported burglary on the third floor of t...

I am an old man in his sixtieth year. I have entered that decade of life which destroys the last illusion and beyond which lies death, swift or lingering, actuarial or real. I am also poor, incontrovertibly, humiliatingly poor, for the first time in my life. My total annual income , from a modest pension ($1980) and the interest ($168.75) from an equally modest savings account , is 6 percent of what I earned in my prime-and less than two thirds of the property tax I once paid on a five-bedroom home with swimming pool in Westchester County, New York. I am divorced and living alone in an alien city of 800,000 strangers. My aging body betrays me day by day; the ground I am losing now I lose forever. So I perceived myself, at any rate, when the plane from a foreign country dropped me in San Diego one night seven months ago. Behind me stretched an aimless, six-year, expatriate trail through the South Seas, Asia, and Latin America that began when divorce and its inevitable byproducts-seco...