drunk driving charge

Vili Fualaau, the husband of convicted sex-offender Mary Kay Letourneau, was arrested Dec. 22 on suspicion of drunk driving, it was made public recently.

Fualaau was pulled over along Des Moines Memorial Drive around South 190th Street for speeding. Police said he was going 55 mph in a 35 mph zone when he was stopped by a SeaTac police officer.

He was arrested after blowing a 0.136 on a sobriety test; 0.08 is the legal percent blood-alcohol limit for driving.

Fualaau was driving Letourneau’s 1999 Cadillac DeVille at the time. She was not in the car with him.

Letourneau served seven years in prison for raping Fualaau, her sixth grade student at the time. She was released in 2004 and they subsequently married.

Search for victim’s car

Detectives are still looking for the car driven by homicide victim Nicole Pietz the day she disappeared.

Her car has not been found since her disappearance. It is a gray 2003 Volkswagen Jetta with Washington license plate number 991 TEF.

If anyone sees the vehicle, they are asked to call the King County Sheriff’s Office at 206-269-3311 or 9-1-1.

Pietz’s family reported her missing from her Lynnwood home on Jan. 28. Her body was found in a wooded area near Des Moines Memorial Drive and South 114th Street in Burien on Feb. 6.

Police officials say she was strangled. No one has been arrested for the homicide.

Mother, child re-united

A man has been arrested in Maryland for taking his two-month-old daughter from her mother in SeaTac.

On Nov. 23, Albert Murphy, 34, visited the mother and daughter at their SeaTac apartment and presented the mother with a court order giving him custody of the of the child.

However, the order was based only on Murphy’s statements to the court, which later were determined to be false.

Murphy took the girl and left the state.

On Dec. 5, the mother received an Order for Protection that ordered Murphy to immediately return the girl. On Dec. 19 a King County Superior Court judge issued a Writ of Habeas Corpus for the girl.

The King County Sheriff’s Office Child Find Unit was also involved in trying to locate the child.

Murphy was eventually found in Owning Mills, Md., where he was staying with relatives.

On Feb. 14, at the request of sheriff’s office detectives, Maryland State Police served the warrant and located Murphy and the baby.

Murphy was previously charged with armed robbery, kidnapping, and breaking and entering. He earlier served two years on a carjacking conviction.

The mother was reunited with her daughter after flying to Maryland Feb. 14.

Compiled by Sara Loken