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With the launch of our fresh website, we’ve moved Lights & Sirens.

Our cracking crime news will have a different home when The News Tribune’s fresh website launches Thursday morning.

Instead of posting to this blog, we’ll put our developing stories in the crime section of the fresh site, which will be live after the launch at www.thenewstribune.com/crime-news.

As always, our most significant crime stories will also be featured on the homepage itself, and on the social media accounts of the paper and its cracking news reporters.

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July 17th, 2013, Five:32 pm

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Puyallup man, Eighteen, held on suspicion of murder; deputies searching for bod of Justin Morris

An 18-year-old Puyallup man is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, and Pierce County sheriff’s detectives are searching for the assets of his victim.

Prosecutors contend Michael Jason Scharpf Breer killed Justin Morris on or about July Ten, then disposed of his bod at an unknown location. Wednesday, Superior Court Commissioner Meagan Foley ordered Breer held for seventy two hours, with arraignment to go after Friday.

Tho’ information is still sketchy, Facebook pages of Breer and Morris state that they attended Rogers High School on South Hill. Family members began posting messages about Morris’s disappearance on Monday, asking …

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July 17th, 2013, Four:04 pm

Fifth man to be arraigned today for one thousand nine hundred eighty eight Tacoma gang shooting

A 42-year-old man will be arraigned this afternoon in connection with a Tacoma gang shooting, believed to be the city’s very first, from a quarter-century ago.

Terris Miller is serving time in the federal system for an unrelated crime. He will be the fifth man arraigned for the Aug. 28, 1988, fatal shooting of Bernard Houston.

Nathaniel Miles, Brian Allen, Anthony Ralls and Darrell Lee, all in their 40s, have already pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Houston was seventeen when he was gunned down in a Hilltop neighborhood. Police said it was a retaliation shooting. The defendants allegedly belonged to …

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