FORMER PROSECUTOR HELD IN DRUG CASE

SEATTLE - A former King County deputy prosecutor is one of two men arrested
last night in North Seattle for investigation of possession of drug residue
and paraphernalia.

Last year, the former prosecutor, 36, was accused of possessing drug
residue and a drug pipe in the King County courthouse.

He was not charged in the earlier case after a roommate told investigators
the pipe was his and were left in the deputy's satchel by mistake.

That investigation was turned over to the state Attorney General's Office
because it is separate from the King County Prosecutor's Office where the
deputy had worked for 2 1/2 years. He resigned shortly after the incident.

In last night's arrests, King County deputies allegedly found
methamphetamine residue and drug paraphernalia after serving a search
warrant at a home in the 7800 block of Eighth Avenue Northwest.

Sgt. Jerrell Wills, spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office, said
that yesterday's arrests followed a monthlong investigation. The other man
is 27 years old, Wills said.

Wills said the 36-year-old was accused of four drug transactions with
authorities in the past month, and the other man was accused of one
transaction.