PORT TOWNSEND — A 27-year-old man whom police had sought since a Dec. 9 assault was taken into custody last week.
Kaleb Roy Mayo was arraigned on four counts of assault — one count of second-degree and three of fourth-degree — in Jefferson County Superior Court on Thursday after he was arrested Wednesday.
His trial is set for June 4, with a pretrial hearing May 25.
He remained in the Jefferson County jail Saturday.
He is accused of attacking Lenard Marion of Port Townsend, who was found hurt and on the ground in the 500 block of Harrison Street in Port Townsend in the early hours of Dec. 9.
Marion, 38, was treated at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for serious injuries.
Three other people also were hurt but less seriously than Marion, according to the Port Townsend Police Department.
The Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is considering other charges against Mayo, said Chris Ashcraft, deputy prosecuting attorney.
The charges include resisting arrest, obstruction of a law enforcement officer and hit-and-run with property damage, according to the jail roster.
After Dec. 9, Mayo had remained at large with a warrant issued for his arrest until Wednesday.
A report by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Pernsteiner and filed in Superior Court gives the following account of his apprehension:
Pernsteiner recognized Mayo as the driver of a car that turned into a driveway at 211 22nd St. in Port Townsend when law enforcement officers were seeking a witness in another case.
Mayo put the car in reverse and sped across the street, where he struck a neighbor’s mailbox.
Three sheriff’s deputies and two Port Townsend Police Department officers were on the scene, Pernsteiner said.
Police drew their guns and ordered Mayo to stop, but he did not comply, and by the time the officers, who were parked some distance from the house, reached their patrol cars, Mayo was beyond visual contact.
The car was found on state Highway 20 south of Port Townsend, and the sole occupant told police Mayo was her boyfriend.
She said she did not know what was going on or where he may be, though she said she was in the car when Mayo eluded police, Pernsteiner said.
She was arrested for investigation of rendering criminal assistance.
Deputies determined that Mayo had fled to the Port Townsend house of his brother, Isaac Mayo, who also had been sought in the assault and who turned himself in to police soon after it occurred.
He is now out on bail and faces a trial in June, Ashcraft said.
Isaac Mayo told police he had received a call from his brother, who was “running through the woods,” Pernsteiner said.
Police contacted Kaleb Mayo through his brother and told him of the arrest of his girlfriend.
Kaleb Mayo said he would turn himself in if no charges were filed against her.
Police agreed, met Mayo near a cemetery on Discovery Road, took him into custody and released the woman, Pernsteiner said.
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Jefferson County Reporter Charlie Bermant can be reached at 360-385-2335 or at charlie.bermant@peninsuladailynews.com.
