In brief: Pend Oreille jail escapee caught
Ryan A. Apling scaled several fences topped with razor wire to escape the Pend Oreille County Jail in February but was arrested without incident Saturday when deputies stopped a car he was a passenger in near Camden Road and Highway 2 just after midnight.
Apling, 29, had been in jail in February for driving with a suspended license and trespassing, both misdemeanors. He is now facing a new charge of second-degree escape.
The driver of the car, 32-year-old Kyle J. Mischenko of Newport, and 30-year-old Adina M. Ahlers of Priest River, were both charged with first-degree rendering criminal assistance for helping Apling.
Trash cleared from Oregon beaches
PORTLAND – Thousands of Oregonians helped clean the state’s beaches during the spring litter cleanup.
More than 4,500 volunteers helped clear the entire Oregon coast of trash on Saturday. An estimated 45,955 pounds of debris was removed, including 14 tires.
The twice-annual cleanup has been organized by the SOLVE nonprofit organization for the past 30 years.
The cleanups have seen volunteers remove an estimated 2.8 million pounds of trash from Oregon beaches since 1984.
The most common items found this year were cigarette butts, fishing ropes and plastic bottles.
Volunteers also found the remains of a sunken crab vessel in Brookings, a large semitruck tire at Gleneden Beach and a 200-pound block of Styrofoam in Netarts Bay.
FBI: Gilman unlikely to be Keyes’ victim
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The FBI says it’s highly unlikely confessed Alaska serial killer Israel Keyes was connected to the unsolved disappearance of a man in Washington state.
A special episode of Investigation Discovery’s “Dark Minds” TV series airing April 2 says Gilbert Gilman was a potential victim of Keyes, who had been in the region. Gilman disappeared from Olympic National Park in 2006.
Keyes was believed to have killed at least 11 people around the country before committing suicide in his Anchorage jail cell 15 months ago. He was awaiting a federal trial in the 2012 strangulation murder of his last known victim, 18-year-old Samantha Koenig of Anchorage.
Anchorage-based FBI Special Agent Kevin Donovan said Keyes likely was not involved in Gilman’s disappearance, based on evidence and reviews of unsolved homicides and missing persons cases.