A Washington state mayor blasted law enforcement leaders after they quietly released a notorious rapist from custody and allowed him to move into her city.
Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus laid into the King County Sheriff’s Office for giving her no heads up that Kevin Coe, known as the “South Hill rapist,” had been relocated to the Seattle suburb.
“Like many of our residents, we learned of this recent development through newspapers and TV stations,” Ms. Backus said in a statement Wednesday night. “That is not how effective public safety partnerships should operate, and we should expect better.”…