Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste said the agency sends their "sincerest condolences to the victim and their loved ones."

The Richland Police Department arrested an off-duty Washington State Patrol trooper Sunday night on suspicion of hitting and killing a motorcyclist while intoxicated. WSP Trooper and Public Information Officer Sarah Clasen was booked into the Benton County Jail following a crash with a motorcyclist on a state highway near Horn Rapids around 7:40 p.

A Washington State patrol trooper was charged with vehicular homicide after she allegedly plowed into a 20-year-old motorcyclist while drunk behind the wheel. Sarah Lee Clasen, 35, was driving in her vehicle down State Route 240 in Richland — about 200 miles southeast of Seattle — on Saturday at around 7:40 p.