By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
KING5.com reports an anonymous call about a local man hanging around bars and taking his family to the coast for a fourth of July vacation while he was sentenced to electronic home detention led to questions about a private company used to monitor criminal offenders.
Lewis County authorities are no longer using the services of Northwest Home Monitoring after learning a manager gave John Burkett permission for the weekend vacation and allowed him leave his home for more than just the agreed upon time to operate his used car business, according to King5.com
Reporter Chris Ingalls says Thurston County judges will now be reviewing their use of the company.
Burkett was given a jail sentence [1] last year following his convictions that included witness tampering related to a Chehalis bar fight. He owns Burkett’s Auto Sales on on South Gold Street in Centralia.
Ingalls said he wasn’t punished further, as he was technically in compliance with the court’s orders.
Read about it here [2]