Toppenish shooting

Toppenish PD report a reckless endangerment with a firearm occurred on December 6 on the 500 Block of N Date St.

Sunnyside- shots fired on South Hill

Sunnyside police report "shots fired" on the 1600 Block of South Hill on December 5.

Sunnyside- shots fired on Hemlock

Sunnyside police report "shots fired" calls on the 100 block of E Hemlock Ave on December 5.

Sunnyside- 3 arrested after traffic stop of cracked windshield

SUNNYSIDE, Wash. -- A traffic stop for a defective windshield Tuesday afternoon ended with the arrests of three Sunnyside men for outstanding warrants, and one of them for unlawful possession of a firearm.

About 2 p.m., a Sunnyside officer pulled over a 2000 silver Chevrolet Malibu for a defective windshield, police said in a news release Thursday. The driver and two passengers were arrested for outstanding warrants.

The 28-year-old passenger in the rear seat had two 45-caliber unfired bullets and four more on the seat near him, police said.

Using a search warrant, officers found in the car a scale, two small Baggies of marijuana and a loaded 45-caliber Springfield Arms 1911, police said.

Police plan to seek charges of unlawful possession of a firearm against the passenger. (Pedro Baltazar Flores)

Police will seek charges of driving with a suspended license for the 25-year-old driver.

-- Ross Courtney

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/12/03/sunnyside-traffic-stop-yields-three-arrests

Sunnyside- former police clerk arrested

SUNNYSIDE, Wash. — A former police clerk accused of embezzling from her employer here was arrested today in Southern California.

Virginia Perez, 21, will be extradited to Yakima County for arraignment in Superior Court for five counts of felony theft, according to a Sunnyside Police news release.

The Yakima County prosecutor’s office issued a warrant for Perez back in September.

Sunnyside Police accused Perez of stealing or borrowing $11,000 from the department in the form of bail money, cash left for prisoners by friends and family, and money that prisoners had in their pockets or purses at least 32 times between May and August last year, according to court documents.

Perez, now a Los Angeles resident, worked as one of two police front-counter clerks for about 15 months in 2007 and 2008.

The U.S. Marshal’s Service participated in Perez’s arrest, Sunnyside Police said.

— Ross Courtney

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/12/03/former-sunnyside-police-clerk-arrested-in-california

Yakima- gang shooting injures one

YAKIMA, Wash. — About a dozen police officers responded to a shooting that sent one person to the hospital and slowed traffic around the 200 block of South Naches Avenue for an hour this afternoon.

Police say about a dozen rounds were fired by at least two gang members as school students were walking home after classes.

It began around 2:50 p.m. when about three gang members walked past rival gang members in front of a two-story house near Spruce Street, police say.

“It was like a machine gun, real fast — pop! pop! pop!” said a Washington Middle School sixth-grader who had been walking home.

He was with his older sister and her friend and were a half-block away when they saw a group of young men in gang colors walk past some rivals.

“You saw about four of them, then there was gunfire and they ran in opposite directions,” said an eighth-grader at Washington Middle School.

Yakima police Lt. Nolan Wentz said at two guns were fired and officers are still trying to piece together what happened.

Police are at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital interviewing the young man who was shot in his left arm.

The wound is not life threatening, Wentz added.

-- Melissa Sánchez

http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/12/03/shooting-injures-one-in-southeast-yakima

Yakima- One Man Shot

YAKIMA --- Police are investigating a possible gang shooting on Naches Avenue in Yakima.

Police say two different groups shot at each other there Thursday, hitting one guy in the arm. Officers knew where to start when someone showed up at the hospital. The two groups ran off. "Everything I'm told is on foot. It's a possibility at least one person left in a car but it was gone before we arrived," Lt. Nolan Wentz told Action News.

Police believe it was gang related because the two groups were sporting colors. The guy who was shot will be okay.

http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/78498582.html