According to the Washington State Department of Health (WSDH), the person in question is being accused of rape because their sexual activity was with a developmentally disabled person.
I read an article in the Tri-City Herald this morning which I found interesting because it had 2016 death statistics, the Herald took the the car accident vs guns angle...
Former Pasco "officer of the year" Richard Aguirre is in court on rape charges. Authorities have protected the victim's privacy, but when she took the stand Monday, it was revealed to be his own niece.
Dennis Huston, the 65-year-old manager of the Franklin County Public Works Department, is in jail on suspicions of embezzling $1 million from the county. He told police it was mostly for cocaine.
One of the local issues for the Tri-Cities included Franklin County's Criminal Justice Tax. The tax would impose $0.03 for every $10 people spend, in order to renovate the current county jail and the city police station. The county jail is currently built to hold roughly 100 people, but so…