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Thursday, April 6, 2006 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

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Body of infant found on roadside

Kitsap County

An infant was found dead Wednesday on the shoulder of a rural south Kitsap County road.

Two teenage girls and a pickup driver dialed 911 around 4:20 p.m. after seeing the body in the 3300 block of Southeast Bielmeier Road, just outside Port Orchard, said Kitsap County sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson.

Deputies aren't saying the gender, age or how long the baby might have been there.

The Kitsap County Coroner's Office likely will perform an autopsy today.

Seattle

Man crushed by truck identified

The King County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday identified Gmirmay M. Bereketaib as the man run over by a semi-trailer truck Tuesday at Seattle's Terminal 46.

Bereketaib, 40, died from crushing injuries to his head, a death investigator said.

According to Port of Seattle police, Bereketaib somehow got tangled in the back wheels of the truck just after 4 p.m.

Monroe

Man sought in 6 bank heists

Monroe police and the FBI are looking for a man they say has robbed six banks near Monroe, including one Wednesday.

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The man, who is middle-aged and speaks with a European accent, told a teller at the Wells Fargo Bank at 19501 Highway 2 that he had a gun and wanted money, according to a Monroe Police Department news release.

Police did not say how much money was taken. It was unclear when the other robberies took place.

Wells Fargo Bank is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thief. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 360-794-6300.

South King County

More charges filed against rape suspect

Additional charges of first-degree rape, indecent liberties, burglary and robbery were filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court against Anthony C. Dias, a suspect in a series of rapes in South King and Pierce counties.

The new charges are in connection with an Oct. 28, 2005, attack at an apartment in Federal Way, where three men and two women were staying. Police said Dias, 26, entered the apartment and demanded money from the victims, all in their 20s. He's accused of tying up, threatening and either sexually assaulting them or forcing them to perform sex acts. Dias, 26, was arrested Nov. 8, 2005, near a Federal Way apartment after two sisters, ages 13 and 15, were raped. He was shot in the arm by police while trying to escape and was charged by King County prosecutors with first-degree rape, assault, robbery, burglary and unlawful imprisonment.

Dias also subsequently was charged with rape, burglary, robbery and unlawful imprisonment in an Oct. 31 attack on a Des Moines family, in which Dias allegedly bound several members of a family and repeatedly raped two sisters, ages 20 and 24.

Dias tried to kill himself in January while in the Pierce County Jail after he apparently read a newspaper article saying his DNA had been tied to other rapes in Pierce County.

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