Police investigating suspect in kids' league embezzlement case

By LUKE DUECY
KOMO-TV STAFF

FEDERAL WAY -- Police here are investigating a person accused of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from three children's sports leagues.

Investigators say all signs point to a former employee. The person allegedly stole funds from the Federal Way American Little League, The Puget sound Junior Football League and the Federal Way Hawks Football Franchise.

"It's looking like $16,000 to $20,000 has been embezzled at this point," said Ofc. Raymond Bunk.

There have been no arrests so far, but detectives say the money trail begins on local ball fields.

"This person has not been contacted or arrested at this point, because we are still investigating and collecting evidence," said Bunk.

League officials said thousands of dollars began to disappear last year.

Police have not determined just how the suspect spent the stolen money, which was intended for field maintenance other league supplies. Without the money, hundreds of kids' playing fields are in jeopardy.

Some 300 members belong to the Federal Way Hawks franchise, and about 210 players belong to the Federal Way American Little League. More than a thousand kids belong to the Puget Sound Football League. The leagues raised funds by selling concessions at games.

One league commissioner said he wonders how anyone could steal from the kids, especially in this struggling economy, and put the league in jeopardy.

League officials said they're waiting for police officers to make an arrest before they comment on this incident.

Arraignment set for murder suspect McBride

Seattle Times staff and newswires

Mount Vernon

Arraignment is set for Thursday in Skagit County Superior Court in Mount Vernon for Kenneth McBride.

He's charged with murder in the shooting of Jeremy Scully, a substitute teacher and assistant track coach at Ferndale High School. Prosecutors say he led a "swinger" lifestyle that included McBride's wife, Vanessa.

McBride lived in Skagit County at the time of the shooting in April 2008 and later moved to Lebanon, Ore., where he was arrested March 11.

$2M bail for each beating suspect in Skamania County skier attack

Bail has been set at $2 million each for a Vancouver father and son accused of brutally beating a cross-country skier and taking his car and wallet.

Seattle Times staff and newswires
Stevenson, Skamania County

Bail has been set at $2 million each for a Vancouver father and son accused of brutally beating a cross-country skier and taking his car and wallet.

Skamania County Superior Court Judge Thompson Reynolds scheduled arraignment on Thursday for 33-year-old Michael David Collins and his 16-year-old son, Tevin Collins.

The Vancouver Columbian reports they were in court in shackles Tuesday in Stevenson after being flown back from Mexico, where they were arrested.

They are charged with attempted murder and robbery in the Feb. 9 attack on 52-year-old Robert Kevin Tracey, of Washougal, as he was cross-country skiing in a remote area. Prosecutors say he was beaten, choked and left for dead.

Spanaway man, 26, killed in high-speed crash

KOMO-TV STAFF

PUYALLUP -- A 26-year-old Spanaway man was killed early Saturday when he lost control of his pickup and crashed through a guardrail after speeding recklessly along state Route 512.

State troopers and emergency personnel responded to the scene just after 2 a.m. after getting calls about the fiery crash.

The driver, Ryan D. Allen of Spanaway, was rocketing east in a 2005 Dodge Ram at speeds of nearly 100 mph when witnesses say he blew past them and veered off the roadway to the left.

Allen lost control in the grass and shot back onto the highway, crossing all lanes of traffic and crashing through a guardrail on the right, taking out two Transportation Department signs.

The truck rolled twice after leaving the roadway, and Allen was thrown from the vehicle. The truck then burst into flames about 50 feet from the side of the highway.

By the time emergency personnel arrived, the truck was fully engulfed in flames. Allen was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators said high speed and possibly alcohol were factors in the crash. Allen was not wearing his seat belt.

The right lane of S.R. 512 was closed for about four hours and the left lane was closed intermittently during investigation of the scene.

City settles judge sex case

By JIM FORMAN / KING 5 News
SEATTLE – KING 5

News has uncovered a former worker at the City’s Municipal Courthouse will get $135,000 to settle a sexual harassment claim – half paid by taxpayers, half by Judge Ron Mamiya.

The ex-staff member is not identified in pages of documents, e-mails and other materials KING obtained under the state’s public disclosure act.

The allegations stem from an apparently consensual sexual relationship the two had last year. The woman, a single mother of two, says Judge Mamiya continued to make unwanted advances after the pair had agreed to keep things strictly professional.

In a sworn statement, the woman says that decision came after Mamiya told her he had confessed to his wife about their affair. She claims Mamiya, who has been a municipal court judge since 1981, caused her undue stress, which ultimately led to her resignation.

A gag order prohibits the parties to discuss the specifics of the case. Both the woman’s lawyer and the City Attorney’s office refused to comment on the settlement.

Judge Mamiya did release a statement: "I want to acknowledge my horrible lapse in judgment. I have no excuse for my role in this incident and my actions have hurt many people important to me, including my wife, family and my community. I take full responsibility for my behavior."

The Court told us the judge remains a sitting member of the Municipal Court Bench.

Suspected cattle prod wielder triggers standoff

KOMO-TV STAFF

FEDERAL WAY -- A wanted felon assaulted another man using a cattle prod, then barricaded himself inside his home for hours on Thursday, according to police.

Officer Ray Bunk said a man used a cattle prod on another person around 7 p.m. The victim was taken to St. Francis Hospital with non-life threatening injuries to an eye.

When police responded to the suspected attacker's home at 12th Place Southwest and South 307th around 9 p.m., he refused to come out or talk with police.

An hours-long standoff ensued and police evacuated several nearby houses as a precaution. Then around 12:30 a.m. Friday, police used explosives to open the front door and released tear gas and pepper spray into the home.

Police said three people came out of the house, including the 45-year-old man accused of the attack involving the cattle prod. That unnamed man, Bunk said, had a past felony kidnapping conviction was wanted on an escape warrant.

All three were arrested and booked into the King County Jail.

Homeowner wrestles naked alleged intruder

A homeowner wrestled down a naked man who had reportedly broken into his home in the Harney Heights neighborhood early Monday morning.

By Laura McVicker
The Columbian

A homeowner wrestled down a naked man who had reportedly broken into his home in the Harney Heights neighborhood early Monday morning.

A Vancouver Police Department bulletin gave this account:

The incident happened about 12:45 a.m. when homeowner Kim Tingley, 54, awoke to a naked man banging on a window at the home in the 4100 block of East 15th Street.

After the naked man broke the window and entered the home, the two started fighting and were injured by broken glass on the floor.

Tingley's wife, Kristy, 47, awoke to her husband yelling for her to call police. She got up and saw the naked intruder and her husband covered in blood.

Both Tingley and the 20-year-old naked man, Anthony D. Frazier, suffered injuries, police said. Kristy Tingley wasn't injured.

Kim Tingley was taken to Southwest Washington Medical Center but released later in the morning.

"He's going to be all right, but he's pretty messed up right now," a spokesman for the family said.

Frazier, who also lives in the Harney Heights neighborhood, was taken to Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital.

Monday afternoon, Frazier was discharged and subsequently booked into the Clark County Jail on suspicion of first-degree burglary, second-degree assault and fourth-degree assault.

Police spokeswoman Kim Kapp said she didn't know why Frazier wasn't clothed or why he targeted the home.

"(Detectives) are now doing follow-up investigation as to why this happened," Kapp said.

The Tingleys' neighbors across the street found discarded tennis shoes, a jacket and shorts in their yard. But Kapp said investigators didn't seize the clothes as evidence.

Soliciting prostitutes could become more costly

By CHRIS DANIELS / KING 5 News

KENT, Wash. – Should police be allowed to impound cars used by men who solicit prostitutes?

That's the pitch from the Kent Police Department, which is pitching the idea as a new way to deter prostitution in their city.

"Our neighborhood along Pacific Highway South deserves better, and that's part of the initiative and that's part of the message to change the paradigm," says Kent Police Chief Steve Strachan.

Strachan's department has recently been cracking down on the crime in recent months, while pitching a proposal to State Lawmakers.

Two bills are now in the Legislature which would impound the cars of suspected Johns, and force them to pay a $500 fine to get it back.

"All of those dollars (would) go to a state fund that funds intervention and prevention, so instead of Johns approaching the girls, we have service workers approaching them," Strachan says.

The local chapter of the ACLU says it has no objections to the bill in its current form, and is not taking a stance on the issue.

The two bills:

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=1362&year=2009

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5934&year=2009

Suspended Wash. policeman found not guilty

A suspended policeman has been acquitted of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment by a Spokane County Superior Court jury for shooting a man in the head two years ago.
SPOKANE, Wash. —

A suspended policeman has been acquitted of first-degree assault and reckless endangerment by a Spokane County Superior Court jury for shooting a man in the head two years ago.

A city spokeswoman told The Spokesman-Review after Friday afternoon's verdict that 45-year-old officer Jay Olsen will be paid all his back pay according to civil service rules. He is a 16-year veteran of the Spokane Police Department.

Following his acquittal, Olsen was placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation. He had been on unpaid layoff status since his April 2007 arrest.

Olsen was charged with first-degree assault and two counts of reckless endangerment after a chase Feb. 26, 2007, that ended in the shooting of 29-year-old Shonto Pete in a Spokane neighborhood. He was off duty at the time of the shooting.

The bullet that hit Pete in the head lodged in his scalp.

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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com

Manslaughter charge in Fort Lewis girl's death

The Army has charged a 19-year-old soldier from Indiana in the fatal drug overdose of a 16-year-old girl at a Fort Lewis barracks.


FORT LEWIS, Wash. —

The Army has charged a 19-year-old soldier from Indiana in the fatal drug overdose of a 16-year-old girl at a Fort Lewis barracks.

Pvt. Timothy E. Bennitt, a heavy construction equipment operator from Rolling Prairie, Ind., faces charges of involuntary manslaughter, wrongful use and distribution of controlled substances, and conspiracy to use controlled substances. He is assigned to the 555th Engineer Brigade.

The girl, Leah King, a high school sophomore from Lakewood, had been dating Bennitt for about a month, officials said. She was found dead in the barracks early on Feb. 15. Another 16-year-old girl was found unconscious and eventually recovered. Army pathologists and investigators determined that King overdosed on an antidepressant marketed as Xanax and a painkiller called oxymorphone, some of which she had apparently inhaled after the pills were crushed.

Army officials said Bennitt, 19, is also under investigation for distributing drugs to other soldiers, including oxycodone and marijuana, and taking drugs himself. If convicted of all charges he could face up to 82 years in confinement, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and a dishonorable discharge.

The charges against him will be presented to an investigating officer in an Article 32 hearing, the equivalent of a civilian grand jury, and that officer will recommend whether to proceed with a court martial.

King's death revealed that many juveniles from the area enter Fort Lewis with soldiers to attend parties. In response, the base changed its procedures to require all minors to be signed in at the Fort Lewis visitor center, and to deny access to those who do not appear to have a legitimate reason for being on base. Officials also increased the number of random checks they do of cars entering the base to ensure minors aren't entering the post inappropriately.

Bennitt entered the Army in June 2007 and reported to Fort Lewis that December, after training at Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He has not deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.

Criminals could be free from probation

By MADELYN FAIRBANKS
P-I REPORTER

OLYMPIA -- A bill that would allow certain criminal offenders to say goodbye to their community supervision made it through another one of the Legislature's hoops this week, but concern about the measure remains.

At the bill's first hearing in the House, Don Pierce, executive director of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, supported the bill "with some discomfort," but felt that if the Legislature must make cuts in the Department of Corrections, supervision of low- to moderate-risk offenders would be the right place.

Lawmakers, facing an $8 billion budget deficit, are looking for ways to save money.

The bill's original sponsor, Sen. James Hargrove, D-Hoquiam, estimates the cost savings to the state to be roughly $40 million for the next biennium, with $1.5 million in savings for the current biennium if the Legislature moves quickly enough.

"This measure, if enacted, will have some level of adverse affect on community safety," Pierce said. "But other places would have a much more significant impact on the community we're sworn to protect."

Senate Bill 5288, which would lower the number of criminal offenders on parole or probation, reflects suggestions made by the governor to reduce the growing budget deficit by making cuts in the Corrections Department.

The current, revised bill would eliminate supervision of low- and moderate-risk offenders unless they were convicted of a violent offense, a crime against a person, or ordered to chemical dependency treatment.

Their supervision would be terminated after six months if they have not reoffended.

Those offenders categorized as high risk, or low to moderate risk convicted of a sex offense, would still be supervised.

Rep. Bruce Dammeier, R-Puyallup, is concerned that the bill doesn't address the issue of domestic violence seriously enough.

"I will be looking very closely to the areas of gross misdemeanants with relation to domestic violence," Dammeier said.

Under the current wording of the bill, gross misdemeanants would not be supervised by parole or probation.

There are 4,300 gross misdemeanants who would be unsupervised under SB 5288.

"I'm sensitive to the fact that we need to protect" domestic crime victims, Dammeier said.

Some domestic violence offenders are put in the high-risk or gross misdemeanant probationer category -- under current law, these types of offenders are under supervision by a corrections officer.

SB 5288 would eliminate their supervision completely.

Hargrove said changing the bill so that these specific levels of domestic violence offenders would be supervised would cut the majority of the state's potential savings.

"We looked at that, and I believe that such a large percentage of those, if you included all domestic violence offenses, your savings would drop to about $10 million," Hargrove said.

"In other words, it's a huge chunk of that bottom category, so it was a very big moving piece."

Although some domestic violence offenders won't escape supervision because their relative threat to the community will put them in a high-risk to reoffend category, Ginger Richardson, a community corrections officer in King County, is concerned that their convictions, and therefore their categorizations, won't accurately depict the seriousness of their threat level.

"It's usually about the fifth or sixth time that (domestic violence victims) finally call the cops, that they go forward with filing charges.

"They've got to survive, they've got kids, things like that," Richardson said.

Richardson also worried that with the elimination of supervision for some domestic violence offenders who are categorized as misdemeanants by having pleaded down their charges, corrections officers would have no way of enforcing the offender to go to treatment.

"Many just wouldn't go," Richardson said.

The cost-savings would ultimately mean a big job loss for community corrections officers.

Eldon Vail, secretary of the Department of Corrections, estimates that nearly 300 jobs would be lost.

"Primarily how to save money will be laying off staff," Vail said.

Army captain charged with stealing $690,000

An Army captain stationed at Fort Lewis has been charged with stealing nearly $700,000 from the government while he was serving in Iraq.

PORTLAND, Ore. —

An Army captain stationed at Fort Lewis has been charged with stealing nearly $700,000 from the government while he was serving in Iraq.

A federal grand jury in Portland indicted Capt. Michael Dung Nguyen on charges of theft of government property, money laundering and structuring financial transactions.

The indictment alleges that between April 2007 and February, the 28-year-old Nguyen stole more than $690,000 in U.S. currency entrusted to him as the battalion civil affairs officer in Muqdadiyah, Iraq.

Prosecutors say the funds were designated for local commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan to respond to urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction.

The indictment resulted from an Internal Revenue Service investigation after IRS agents tracked large cash deposits.

Threat to kill Wash. municipal judge reported

One man has been arrested and police are looking for a second man after a threat to kill Tacoma Municipal Court Elizabeth Verhey was reported.

TACOMA, Wash. —

One man has been arrested and police are looking for a second man after a threat to kill Tacoma Municipal Court Elizabeth Verhey was reported.

Pierce County prosecutors have charged Ronald Ewing, 51, with intimidating a judge and felony harassment. Darrel Talbott, 61, also was charged and is being sought by police.

Prosecutors said a witness told police that he heard Ewing and Talbott discussing killing the judge sometime in February.

Court papers said the witness told police that Talbott ordered guns by telephone and that the two men discussed "taking a 'long shot' at the judge with a rifle." The News Tribune reported the men were apparently angry at a sentence she gave Talbott.

The court papers said the witness told police the threats were made at a house in Tacoma.

The documents said Ewing mentioned that Verhey was about to sentence him, and Talbott responded by saying he wanted to harm her.

"The witness expressed the belief that Talbott was angry enough to kill Judge Verhey," the papers said.

Talbott has been before Verhey many times and Ewing had a scheduled court date Wednesday in Tacoma Municipal Court, according to the papers. They didn't specify what the charge is, but KING-TV reported that the judge was scheduled to sentence Talbott for a drunken driving charge this month.

Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said Ewing was arrested Thursday. He was arraigned in Pierce County Superior Court Friday.

Meanwhile, Verhey is refusing to talk to the media because of safety concerns and didn't let television cameras in her courtroom last week.

Court Administrator Yvonne Pettus said she was working with officials at the County-City Building to ensure that courtrooms are secure.

"The judge is just being careful, changing driving routes, that kind of thing," Pettus said.

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Information from: The News Tribune, http://www.thenewstribune.com

Seattle Marijuana Policy Review Panel Concludes I-75 Working As Intended

From NORML Website

January 3, 2008 - Seattle, WA, USA

Seattle, Washington: Initiative 75, passed by the Seattle, WA voters in September of 2003, requires that "the Seattle Police Department and City Attorney’s Office shall make the investigation, arrest and prosecution of marijuana offenses, when the marijuana was intended for adult personal use, the city’s lowest law enforcement priority." The ordinance subsequently adopted by the Seattle City Council to implement the new policy included provisions for the president of the city council to appoint an eleven-member Marijuana Policy Review Panel to assess and report on the effects of this ordinance.

Today, following more than three years of meetings and reviews, the Marijuana Policy Review Panel issued their final report, including the following conclusions and findings:

I. I-75 was implemented and following its implementation there were reductions both in the number of Seattle Police Department marijuana incident referrals and in the number of Seattle City Attorney filings of marijuana charges, although it is impossible to say whether these reductions were the result of I-75;

II. There is no evidence of any adverse effect of the implementation of I-75, including specifically

1. no evident increase in marijuana use among youth and young adults:

2. no evident increase in crime; and

3. no adverse impact on public health.

III. There is some evidence of arguably positive effects from I-75in the following substantive areas examined:

1. Fewer adults experiencing the consequences of involvement in the criminal justice system due to their personal use of marijuana; and,

2. A small reduction in the amount of public safety resources dedicated to marijuana possession cases and a corresponding slight increase in availability of these resources for other public safety priorities.

The panel then recommended that the City Council (1) keep the current ordinance in effect; (2) require the City Attorney’s Office to provide the city council with an annual report describing the disposition of each case in which an individual was referred for misdemeanor marijuana charges, tracking the disposition of the charges, including an analysis of the racial and gender breakdown of those referred for prosecution; and (3) disband the Marijuana Policy Review Panel.

NORML Board member Dominic Holden, a Seattle resident who led the successful effort to pass I-75 and is one of the 11-members appointed by the City Council President to serve on the review panel, stated:

"The panel’s report is the first of its kind in the US to show that de-prioritizing marijuana enforcement has no negative impact on society. In contrast, this report shows that the measure freed up limited law enforcement resources to focus on violent and dangerous crime. This is the result that initiative backers and endorsers, including the League of Women Voters, promised voters when I-75 was on the ballot.

To view the final version of Seattle’s Marijuana Policy Review, visit http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=&s2=&s3=&s4=marijuana&Sect4=AND&l=20&Sect2=THESON&Sect3=PLURON&Sect5=CFCF1&Sect6=HITOFF&d=CFCF&p=1&u=%2F%7Epublic%2Fcfcf1.htm&r=1&f=G

Suspect in Auburn woman's death freed pending further investigation

An Auburn man who was arrested after his former girlfriend was found dead in her apartment Monday will be released from jail today pending further investigation, the King County Prosecutor's Office said.

A 19-year-old Auburn man who was arrested after his former girlfriend was found dead in her apartment Monday will be released from jail today pending further investigation, the King County Prosecutor's Office said.

Today was the deadline for filing charges in connection with the death of Kathleen Eyle, 20. The investigation will continue and a decision on whether to file charges will be made at a later date, the Prosecutor's Office said in a news release.

Police found Eyle dead in her apartment in the 3700 block of Auburn Way South in Auburn early Monday morning after the former boyfriend called 911 to report she was not breathing due to "partying" and drinking, court documents said. A neighbor told police she had heard fighting and saw something or someone go over the balcony 20 to 30 feet above ground, according to court documents.

Investigators found fingerprints on the balcony that indicated someone was hanging from it, the documents said.

Prosecutors said the woman died of a heart rupture from a blow.

DUI suspect pulls into Wash. trooper's driveway

The State Patrol says a trooper returning home after his shift found a drunken driving suspect in the driveway of his own home near Zilla.

ZILLAH, Wash. —

The State Patrol says a trooper returning home after his shift found a drunken driving suspect in the driveway of his own home near Zillah.

Trooper Trevor Downey first noticed the car Tuesday going 30 mph in a 50 mph zone. As Downey approached, the driver pulled into Downey's driveway and parked in the trooper's garage.

Downey followed and asked what he was doing. The driver replied he lived there.

Downey told him it was his home, then arrested the 31-year-old Yakima County man for investigation of drunken driving. He has three prior DUI convictions.

Plea deal for man in fatal punching in Centralia

A man charged with a fatal punching in Centralia has accepted a plea agreement with Lewis County prosecutors.

CHEHALIS, Wash. —

A man charged with a fatal punching in Centralia has accepted a plea agreement with Lewis County prosecutors.

On Friday 30-year-old Henry E. Langley entered an Alford plea to second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Langley did not admit he was guilty but conceded that he would likely be convicted if the case went to trial.

He could have gotten a much longer sentence had he been convicted of second-degree murder for the death of 28-year-old Jonathan P. Case of Winlock. Case died after being punched by Langley, falling down and hitting his head on the street Sept. 8 in Centralia.

The confrontation occurred three months after Langley completed a prison term for possession of stolen property.

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Information from: The Chronicle, http://www.chronline.com

Gunfire damages windows at Spokane high school

Gunfire has damaged five large thermal windows and a smaller upper window in a newly remodeled high school library in Spokane.

SPOKANE, Wash. —

Gunfire has damaged five large thermal windows and a smaller upper window in a newly remodeled high school library in Spokane.

Authorities said the shooting at Shadle Park High occurred sometime over the weekend. The bullets did not penetrate the inner part of the double-paned thermal windows but caused the outer part to crack in a web-like pattern.

The cost of repairs has yet to be determined. Dealy Etter of Garco Construction of Spokane says arrangements are being made to replace the windows.

Etter says the library was opened in September following completion of the first stage of a four-phase renovation of Shadle Park.

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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesmanreview.com

Joe woe: Man loses $300K in Starbucks jewel heist

How much is a cup of coffee at Starbucks? For a jewelry salesman from Kansas, it ended up costing about $300,000.

PARKER, Colo. —

How much is a cup of coffee at Starbucks? For a jewelry salesman from Kansas, it ended up costing about $300,000.

Police say the man stopped for coffee Monday at a Starbucks in Parker, Colo., south of Denver. He was just returning to his car when he was held up. Three masked robbers took three "tubs" of jewelry and a briefcase containing the salesman's handgun.

Police didn't identify the 64-year-old salesman. Parker police spokeswoman Elise Penington says he was in town for a trade show. One of the robbers allegedly brandished a gun, but no one was injured in the robbery.

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Information from: Rocky Mountain News, http://www.rockymountainnews.com/

King Co. Metro bus driver accused of dealing drugs

By DEAN STALEY / KING 5 New

SEATTLE – Police today arrested a 54-year-old King County Metro bus driver who is accused of dealing rock cocaine while on duty.

The suspect, a Seattle man, was taken into custody just before noon while driving Route 42, according to the King County Sheriff's Department. Deputies say the arrest was the result of an investigation that spanned several weeks.

During their investigation, police say they bought cocaine from the suspect along his route. They also bought drugs from him at his south Seattle home. But police say he did not sell to his bus passengers.

"It's not like 'would you like a transfer and some cocaine;' it's nothing like that," Sgt. John Urquhart said. "My understanding is he was meeting his customers while on his route."

The suspect, a 10-year veteran of Metro, was taken into custody near South Leo Street and Beacon Ave. South, and he was expected to be booked into the King County Jail.

Metro has about 2,200 drivers in their system, and they believe this is an isolated incident. Police say they were tipped off by another Metro employee.

In 2002, the suspect was charged in Oregon with pot possession, for which he paid a fine.