Kitsap gets swept clean of criminals
July 4, 2008 · Updated 11:49 AM
Kitsap County law enforcement took a decisive step in cleaning up local crime last week, when 42 felony criminals were apprehended in a single sweep. The action, which involved 24 officers from the Kitsap County Sheriffs Office and other agencies, was carefully choreographed for maximum effect.
The effort was dubbed Kitsap Klean Up, and promised to be the first of many such events.
This was an effort to get predatory criminals off the street, said U.S. Marshal Eric Robertson, who supervised the effort along with Kitsap County Sheriff Steve Boyer. These were the worst of the worst.
Even so, there were no murder warrants issued for those captured.
All were men except for one woman, a local criminal who has the same name although spelled slightly differently as Boyers daughter. Boyer said he felt a stab of apprehension when he first saw the report but he was sure it wasnt her.
Boyer said the sweep presented an efficient, effective strategy that demonstrated the wave of the future of law enforcement.
This represented a new level of interdepartmental and inter-jurisdictional cooperation, Boyer said. It was a distinct end to the turf battles of yesterday.
Most of the arrests occurred in Kitsap County, although criminal arrests took place in Centralia and Puyallup. There
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