Man accused of killing 5 years after incident

Nearly five years after Patrick Terry Sanders was found near Kubota Gardens with a gunshot wound to the back of his head, King County prosecutors have charged a 32-year-old man with his slaying.

DNA found on a cigar near Sanders’ body was matched to Conjewel Marche Glover, a felon currently serving time in a state prison near Spokane on an unrelated assault charge, charging papers said.

The Washington State Patrol Crime Lab found the DNA on the cigar, ran the profile through a database of convicted felons and found a match with Glover, the papers said.

Another man, who is serving time in a Kansas prison for murder, told Seattle homicide detectives he and Glover picked Sanders up from a south Seattle bowling alley on Aug. 4, 2001, and drove to a location where he saw Glover kill Sanders, 28, of Tukwila, the papers said.

King County prosecutors charged Glover with first-degree murder on Monday.

– Associated Press

Friday Harbor, Wash.

Seismograph network reports small quake

A minor earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon southwest of this San Juan Islands community, the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network said.

One Friday Harbor resident reported feeling some brief, minor shaking, KING-TV reported.

The magnitude 3.6 quake, reported at 1:37 p.m., was centered about 15 miles south-south west of here at a depth of 27 miles, the seismograph network said.

– Associated Press

Nampa, Idaho

Hunter loses license for letting moose rot

A Nampa, Idaho man has been stripped of his hunting privileges for life for wasteful destruction of a trophy bull moose.

Farrell E. Johnson, 65, pleaded guilty last month to the misdemeanor charge in an Idaho County court. The charge was originally filed as a felony, but was reduced to a misdemeanor in exchange for his guilty plea.

Johnson was also fined $4,080, sentenced to two years probation, and the antlers and cape from the moose were seized, Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials said.

Last November, two deer hunters found a large bull moose carcass that had been left to rot on an Idaho County hillside. A couple of days earlier, the hunters had met Johnson and his friends at the kill site, and offered to help pack out the meat from the moose kill, but Johnson had declined the offer. When the deer hunters returned later they found that only the antlers, cape and about 20 pounds of meat had been removed.

Bull moose can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds, yielding several hundred pounds of meat.

Although Johnson had a valid permit to shoot the moose, wasting the animal was a crime, said Conservation Officer Larry Willmott.

“Johnson made some really poor decisions afterwards by not salvaging the meat and allowing this animal to go to waste,” Willmott said.

“It’s the hunter’s responsibility to salvage the meat from the animals they harvest, and take actions to not allow it to waste.”

– Associated Press