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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
With obligation and humility,
these deputies do the evicting
By ERIC STEVICK
The (Everett) Herald
EVERETT, Wash. — It
didn’t take long.
Snohomish
County
sheriff’s Deputy Alex
Ross pulled on a pair of
black gloves and pounded
with authority on the door,
explaining who he was and
why he was there.
It was eviction day,
he informed the heavily
tattooed man in the tank top.
The man in his 20s
shrugged. He thought he
might have had another
few days, but understood
the reality: no pay, no stay.
He’d received notice there
was a court order for him
to move out of the small,
sparsely furnished room
he’d been renting near
Everett’s downtown.
Deputy Randy Winkley
taped a red notice onto the
beige door near the end of
a narrow hallway. He told
the man he was sorry for the
circumstances.
“Grab
your
really
important stuff so it doesn’t
get stuck on the grass,” he
told the man, who stuffed
some clothes into an
athletic bag and slipped his
cellphone into a pocket.
The suddenly homeless
man gave a woman in
another apartment his
electric fan and a stack of
DVDs, but left behind a
13-inch box TV, a lamp and
the mattress on the loor.
Outside, he called a
friend while the landlord’s
crew cleared out the room,
leaning the mattress against
a weather-beaten fence.
For Ross and Winkley,
it was the irst of many
eviction stops on a sunny
Thursday in early August,
reported The Herald. For
safety’s sake, they arrive
unannounced and encourage
landlords and locksmiths to
park a ways away. If the
situation is deemed too
dangerous, they’ll back off
and return another day.
— Sgt. Clint Korhonen,
Snohomish County
Sheriff’s Ofice
Ian Terry/The Herald via AP
In this Aug. 11 photo, a former resident, right, of a room in a house on Lombard
Avenue in Everett, Wash. is evicted. A sheriff’s civil division handles evictions for
all of Snohomish County.
“We have a legal obliga-
tion, but nothing is worth
someone getting hurt over
and that’s on both sides of
the door,” said Sgt. Clint
Korhonen, who oversees
the unit.
Over the years, there
have been stories across the
country of deputies getting
shot during evictions.
“This can be the inal
straw that makes someone
snap,” Korhonen said.
Winkley and Ross are
two of the three deputies
whose beat in the sheriff’s
civil division includes evic-
tions, repossessions, prop-
erty seizures and removing
children from homes in
custody disputes. By state
law, they handle evictions
for the entire county, inside
and outside the cities.
Korhonen has tagged
along in the past. He is
struck by the deputies’
demeanor, a mix of legal
obligation and humility.
They understand that “even
though you have a job to do,
these people are down on
their luck,” he said.
in the backseat of the black
SUV that’s part police car,
part library.
Being the bearer of bad
news comes with the job. He
must assess each situation.
He’s friendly to the friendly
and irm with the feisty.
“It’s like buying a box of
chocolates,” he said. “You
never know what you are
going to get.”
Often, homes have been
abandoned by the time the
deputies make the knock.
He brings a lashlight with
him even on the brightest of
days. Many homes have no
power.
A home in Lowell the
other day appeared aban-
doned. Left behind were an
empty bag of Cheetos, Jack
in the Box food wrappers
and a lighter on stained
carpet.
Winkley has seen — and
smelled — a lot over the
years. He’s gone into drug
dens. He’s discovered an
addict days after a fatal
overdose. He’s been to
places where the looring
has been used for irewood
Evictions make up
most of their workload. In
recent years, they’ve posted
anywhere from 128 to 205
eviction notices a month.
Those notices prompt some
renters to pay up or leave
or for landlords and tenants
to reach some kind of last-
minute accord.
Most notices result in the
rap on the door, the expla-
nation, the gathering of
essentials and the tenant’s
walk into uncertainty. Occa-
sionally, there is a barricade
or a door that needs kicking
in. With each case, a land-
lord pays a fee.
Winkley left patrol to
join the civil unit 11 years
ago. He told himself at the
time that if he didn’t like
it, he’d leave. He stayed, in
part, because he is always
learning something new
beyond tidbits of Latin-
based legalese. He knows
people at law ofices, courts
and apartment complexes
by irst name. He’s in
frequent contact with them
as he makes his rounds with
a neat mound of paperwork
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WEDNESDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasant
Partly sunny and
nice
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LOW
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91/56
Ontario
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78/43
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Moonrise today
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75/51
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Seattle
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John Day
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in spots.
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for heat and children lived
without power and no
signs of food to eat. In an
apartment looking out at the
Everett Mall the other day,
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at the kitchen table and the
reek of vomit down the hall.
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hardships evoke sympathy
and efforts to help. There
was the World War II
veteran well into his 80s
being evicted from his south
Everett apartment. His wife,
who had taken care of
inancial matters, died a few
months before and there
were no immediate relatives
nearby. The right message
to the right person in the
right agency bought some
time to ind him another
place to live.
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calls involve children caught
in the middle, whether from
custody battles or families
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to pick up come Jan. 1.
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more court orders to carry
out and doors to knock on.
“It’s kind of a race
against time,” he said.
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were “in fact, necessary.”
“All six shots ired by the
Oregon State Police, the three
into the truck and the three
that struck Mr. Finicum, are
justiied,” Malheur County
District Attorney Dan Norris
said.
Claypool says evidence
shows shots were ired
contrary to statements made
during the investigation.
The U.S. Department
of Justice is investigating
whether an agent lied about
iring two shots that did not
hit Finicum and if four others
worked to hide it later.
Claypool said more details
about the lawsuit would be
announced at a news confer-
ence planned for September.
Jeanette Finicum has
said in a statement that her
“husband was murdered.”
A family statement said
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cold blood.”
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related to the occupation.
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