Clallam County has sold for $1,000 over market value the property it owned in Ocean Shores — and never wanted to begin with.
Sale of the land, which county commissioners approved Tuesday, netted the county $65,000 and included a partly finished kit-built log house.
It was the last piece of property confiscated from convicted drug dealer Douglas Eugene Baker after a raid in 2002.
The county in May sold another of Baker’s former properties, a fire-gutted house on 12.5 acres at 166 Old Dads Road in Happy Valley.
That property was listed originally for $260,000 but was sold “as is” for $213,500 to Jim Bartee, who owns adjacent property.
Undersheriff negotiates
Undersheriff Fred DeFrang, who served as the county’s negotiator on both properties, said Bartee might have to spend as much as $50,000 cleaning up the Happy Valley property, which included a dirty swimming pool and a garbage dump.
Baker’s wife, Francine, and two children will receive 15 percent of the proceeds, or about almost $10,000, from the Ocean Shores parcel and more than $32,000 from the Happy Valley property.
Baker is serving a 15-year prison term for cocaine possession, cocaine delivery, money laundering, marijuana manufacturing and defrauding a public utility by diverting electric power to grow his marijuana.
