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Local briefly: Marysville police arrest second suspect in death

MARYSVILLE -- Detectives on Friday arrested a second suspect in the 2005 slaying of a Marysville man.

The suspect, 26, was jailed last month in connection with the homicide after he told police he was present when Charles Hughley, 39, was killed. Police believed he hid evidence linked to Hughley's death.

Police booked the man in April for investigation of rendering criminal assistance. He was released from jail on $5,000 bail.

Detectives continued their investigation and learned the suspect allegedly assaulted Hughley during the slaying, Marysville police Cmdr. Ralph Krusey said.

Hughley was discovered April 13, 2005, in an abandoned house in the 100 block of Beach Avenue. He died of what the medical examiner called sharp-force injuries.

The suspect, a transient, was arrested again, this time for investigation of second-degree murder. He has convictions for robbery and burglary.

Police arrested a 21-year-old man late last month, also for investigation of second-degree murder. The man told police he punched Hughley but didn't stab him.

Detectives continue to investigate the slaying, Krusey said.

Edmonds: Man, 33, charged in stabbing

A man accused of repeatedly stabbing his girlfriend was charged on Friday with first-degree assault.

Prosecutors alleged that Visitation Del Carma Cruz, 33, became upset April 21 after his girlfriend's daughter refused to drive him somewhere because she was doing her homework. Cruz allegedly grabbed a large kitchen knife from a dishwasher, chased after the woman, 40, and stabbed her in the back, according to court documents.

The woman told police he continued to stab her until her daughters and another man wrestled the knife away. Cruz ran from the Edmonds apartment. He later was tracked down by a police dog.

The victim suffered a slash wound to her face and multiple stab wounds to her back, chest and arm. Her daughters, 18 and 15, also were treated for cuts to their hands.

Edmonds investigators found an 8-inch serrated knife next to the victim.

Cruz is being held on $100,000 bail.

Arlington: Woman suspected in heists

A Snohomish woman suspected of holding up an Arlington espresso stand Friday may be behind another heist a day earlier in Marysville.

The woman, 28, acted as if she had a gun when she demanded cash from a barista at a stand in the 500 block of Olympic Avenue, Arlington spokeswoman Kristin Banfield said.

The woman drove off but didn't get far after employees called 911 and gave police a description of the woman and her car.

Snohomish County sheriff's deputies stopped the woman just as she was getting on the freeway, Banfield said.

The woman also is a suspect in Thursday's robbery of an espresso stand in the 1000 block of State Avenue in Marysville.

She was booked into jail for investigation of armed robbery.

Everett: House fire suspected as an arson

A fire that burned one room of an abandoned house in south Everett on Thursday was deliberately set, investigators believe.

The fire was reported at 2:50 p.m. at the home in the 12800 block of Admiralty Way at the intersection of Airport Road, said Leslie Hynes, spokeswoman for Snohomish County Fire District 1.

No one was injured and the fire was confined to a bedroom in the home, Hynes said. The words "no trespassing" were spray painted on the home and it was partly boarded up, she said.

The Snohomish County Fire Marshal's Office is investigating the fire as an arson, Hynes said.

Camano Island: No sign of fugitive teen

There've been no sightings of Colton Harris-Moore, the notorious teenage serial burglar who escaped from a Renton group home on April 30, Island County Sheriff Mark Brown said Friday.

Police fear the teenager, 17, would come back to his familiar territory on Camano Island and continue his spree of breaking into vacation homes.

Anyone who sees the boy is asked to call 911.

From Herald staff reports