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University Place sheriff's deputies were searching Thursday for a robber who wore a hockey-style mask during a holdup of a University Place bank branch.  

When Angie Sullivan took coffee orders from two men last week at Harbor Brew Espresso, she had no idea that, only moments later, she'd be robbed by a man with a gun.  

A driver killed Sunday when his SUV crashed off Valley Avenue East near Sumner was identified Monday as a 46-year-old Puyallup resident.  

A 46-year-old man was killed early Sunday in a one-vehicle crash on Valley Avenue East near Sumner, the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office reported today.  

Our top fugitive this week, Ernest Gugger, is a convicted felon detectives say is connected to cockfighting ring that just got busted in Pierce County.  

A South Hill barista has been arrested and charged with indecent exposure after deputies say she was seen standing -- topless -- outside Bikini Bottom Espresso stand on 176th Street.  

Pierce County sheriff's deputies have arrested four adults and were searching for another after a Point Fosdick espresso stand was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday.  

Investigators say a 911 call about a domestic dispute led them to a marijuana grow and dog fighting operation. Pierce County Sheriff Detective Ed Troyer said deputies saw the marijuana and dogs as soon as they entered the property in the 9200 block of 229th Street East on Saturday morning. "It kind of snowballed from there," he said.

It kind of snowballed from there   -Ed Troyer

 

A domestic violence call led to the discovery of what Pierce County sheriff's deputies said appears to be a training facility for fighting dogs at a home in Graham. Elijah Peters, 37, was arrested Saturday for allegedly threatening to shoot and kill his girlfriend during a fight at a Graham home. Pierce County sheriff's detective Ed Troyer said when deputies arrived, they found 22 pit bulls tied up in separate dog houses in the home's back yard, a treadmill fitted with a dog leash and makeshift wooden  

Authorities are warning restaurants about a team of robbers that targeted two food-delivery workers last week, badly beating one of them. "These were brutal assaults for a low amount of money," Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said Friday. "These people are very dangerous."

These were brutal assaults for a low amount of money   -Ed Troyer