Mullins Gets 22 Months In Prison

DAYTON - Loren Mullins, of Dayton, was sentenced last Thursday to 22 months in prison for charges related to a trespass incident last February.

Mullins was arrested and booked into Columbia County Jail on Feb. 6 following two trespassing reports, according to Rea Culwell, Columbia County prosecutor. A 911 call was made to law enforcement from Mullins' neighbors that evening, reporting that he was trespassing on their property. Culwell said the sheriff's deputies made contact with Mullins and requested he remove himself from the property. About 50 minutes later at about 7 p.m., Culwell said, another trespass incident was reported on West Cameron Court and Mullins was arrested there after some resistance.

Mullins was charged with criminal trespass in the second degree, obstructing a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and malicious mischief in the second degree. The malicious mischief charge is a felony.

Mullins was involved in a fight in Dayton on Jan. 29 during which he was stabbed.

After that fight, medical employees at St. Mary's Medical Center reported Mullins came in for treatment and had a bloody nose and a stab wound to his torso that was 4 inches deep, and 1 to 2 inches wide. Culwell said Mullins claimed to have stabbed himself, likely in an effort to protect the true offender.

Culwell said Mullins had been convicted of nine felonies and 22 misdemeanors in Washington and Idaho, and more specifically, in Columbia and Walla Walla counties.