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Rapist charged in assault of women

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Prosecutors said that if he's convicted, it's probable that Curtis S. Thompson — released after more than 17 years in prison when a jury refused to send him to a special-treatment center for chronic sexual offenders last year — will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Thompson, 45, was arrested Monday night on suspicion of assaulting two women in an elevator in the University District, forcing one to take off her shirt. Police said he struggled to avoid arrest, kicking, punching and trying to disarm one officer.

Thompson is being held in lieu of $5 million bail in King County Jail and is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.

Puget Sound

Detectives investigate bones found along roads

King and Pierce county sheriff's detectives are investigating unrelated discoveries of human bones found along two highways this week.

Wednesday, workers using excavators along the Auburn-Black Diamond Road near Highway 18 found a human-skull fragment, said King County sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart. The remains in the area, often linked to the Green River killer, are not linked "to Gary Ridgway or the Green River case at this time," Urquhart said.

Also Wednesday, transportation-department workers found bones near Highway 410's 54-mile marker, south of Green Water, said Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer. Forensic experts later concluded the bones were human.

Seattle

Sims names director of county corrections
 
Kenneth Ray, Yakima County's director of corrections for the past 10 years, was named yesterday to run King County's adult and juvenile jails.

County Executive Ron Sims, who announced the appointment, called Ray "an innovative leader in the field of corrections in this region."

Ray will replace retired Chief Larry Mayes, who has served as interim director since May 2003. As director, Ray will be responsible for King County's jails in Seattle and Kent, which hold 2,300 adult inmates; a Seattle jail for 120 juvenile offenders; and a community-corrections office.

Seattle

Snohomish man charged after standoff

A Snohomish man, whose refusal to comply with an FBI search warrant resulted in a 31-hour standoff, was charged yesterday in federal court.

Lewis Hughes, 57, was charged in U.S. District Court in Seattle with resisting and impeding federal agents and obstructing and resisting officers.

When FBI agents tried to serve a search warrant at his house in the 200 block of 15th Street on Tuesday morning, Hughes allegedly said he was armed with a shotgun.

He told agents he would shoot them if they came into his house with their guns drawn, but if they had their weapons holstered, he would sue them, according to charging papers.

Hughes surrendered Wednesday afternoon.

Everett

Remains identified as Mukilteo woman's

Human remains found in Mukilteo earlier this week were identified as those of a 49-year-old woman who disappeared from her condominium last summer, the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office said yesterday.

Mukilteo Police Chief Mike Murphy said the woman was dying of cancer when she walked away from her home sometime around Aug. 18, 2003. He said it appears she fatally shot herself.

Two boys found the remains on a walk through some woods.

Times staff and news services