Chelan County Regional Justice Center

Jail director Chris Sharp says the decision was made to give inmates fingertip access to Narcan after a near death experience.

The city will pay Chelan County $965,000 for jail service in the next year starting in January.

The Chelan County Regional Justice Center has introduced K9 Gambit, a 3-year-old border collie mix. In August, the jail lost its narcotics-detecting canine, K9 Kait, when she died suddenly while undergoing treatment for a liver condition.

K9 Kait served as a narcotics-detecting canine with her partner and handler Corrections Deputy Jacob Lewis at the CCRJC until earlier this year. K9Kait passed away unexpectedly last month while undergoing treatment for chronic hepatitis of the liver.

A corrections officer who was the target of a vicious assault at the Chelan County Regional Justice Center last month has returned to work. Jesus Olivera was attacked by two inmates at the jail, 24-year-old Benito Licea of Wenatchee and 28-year-old Javier Valdez of East Wenatchee, on May 1...

An inmate knocked the deputy down and struck him repeatedly.

Dalton Scott Potter is charged in Douglas County Superior Court with 13 felonies, including first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.

Devon McGrady was sentenced Wednesday in Chelan County Superior Court after pleading guilty to three counts of child molestation in the first degree and one count of violation of a no contact order.

The family is seeking damages and compensation for legal fees.

The Chelan County Regional Justice Center is grappling with several issues being created by the proliferation of fentanyl use in the Wenatchee Valley. The facility is still operating until quarantine protocols from the COVID-19 pandemic, which require new intakes to remain in isolation for a brief period - usually no more than two or three days - prior to joining the rest of the jail's inmate popu