Kent man charged with murder, arson after 3 bodies found in 2 locations
Richard Bradley is charged with the murder of Brandi Blake and with arson in connection to the deaths of Michael Goeman and Vance Lakey. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 11:33 AM PDT June 4, 2021
KENT, Wash. A Kent man faces murder and arson charges after three bodies were discovered at two separate locations.
Richard Walter Bradley, 38, was arrested May 21 and booked at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. He is charged with first-degree murder and second-degree arson.
The arson charge is connected to the deaths of Michael Goeman and his son Vance Lakey, whose bodies were found off an unmaintained county road in Auburn on April 21 and April 28, respectively.
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On average, there’s more than one fight or assault that occurs every day at King County’s two jails – one in downtown Seattle and the other at Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Between 2017 and 2019, officials documented 1,052 fights, the King County Auditor’s Office said in a report published Tuesday.
Until the pandemic, King County booked more than 30,000 people every year into jail and housed about 2,000 on average per day, a disproportionate number of whom are Black and Indigenous. With the pandemic, however, the jail population decreased significantly, as did violent incidents.
Due to an effort to try to stop the spread of COVID-19, the jail population dropped to a total daily population of approximately 1,300. With more individuals living alone in cells, fights and assaults dropped by a whopping 63% at the King County Correctional Facility, the audit found.