Sex offender notification meeting set for Dec. 16

MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Police Department will be holding a public notification meeting to release information regarding two Level III sex offenders residing within the city limits of Marysville. Darren Gene Law and Gary D. Young have registered as sex offenders with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, and will be residing in the 15400 block of 51st Avenue NE in Marysville.

By Staff • December 14, 2010 7:47 pm
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MARYSVILLE — The Marysville Police Department will be holding a public notification meeting to release information regarding two Level III sex offenders residing within the city limits of Marysville.

Darren Gene Law and Gary D. Young have registered as sex offenders with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office, and will be residing in the 15400 block of 51st Avenue NE in Marysville.

Law is a 42-year-old white male who stands approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds. Young is a 62-year-old white male who stands approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds. Law is bald and has blue eyes, while Young has brown hair and brown eyes.

The public meeting will take place Dec. 16 starting at 7 p.m., and will be held on the second floor of the Marysville Public Safety Building located at 1635 Grove St., in the Police Training Room.

According to official documents, Law pled guilty in 1992 to one count of child molestation in the second degree in Snohomish County Superior Court, while Young was convicted and sentenced in 1972 of three counts of rape in the first degree. Law was convicted for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl on two different occasions, and also pled guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court in 2005 to one count of communication with a minor for immoral purposes, for communicating with a 14-year-old girl. Young’s victims were all adult women who were abducted from parking lots and raped at knifepoint, and since his release he’s had his parole revoked on three occasions, the last after he was arrested in Spokane for kidnapping in the first degree, for which he was convicted in 1990.

Law declined to participate in the sex offender treatment program while in prison. Both Law and Young have served the sentences imposed on them by the courts and are not currently wanted by the police. They’re currently under supervision with the Washington State Department of Corrections’ Marysville Field Office.

This notification is not intended to increase fear. Rather, it is the police department’s belief that an informed public is a safer public. Level III sex offenders’ risk assessments indicate a high risk of re-offense.