An office assistant in the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office was fired Wednesday after being charged with a pair of felonies.

“The employee was charged with residential burglary and malicious mischief, with a domestic violence component, both felony offenses,” the Sheriff’s Office announced in a release. “Following a review of the situation and consistent with department policy and standards of conduct, the employee was terminated from employment effective today, November 12, 2025.”

The trouble started just after midnight Nov. 10 with a mother-daughter argument, according to charging papers filed Wednesday in Pierce County Superior Court. Tacoma police officers responded to a dispatch call: a domestic disturbance and destruction of property.

Officers arrived and spoke to a woman who said h

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