A Pierce County Sheriff's Office deputy was fired Wednesday after being charged with a pair of felonies.
“The employee was charged with burglary and malicious mischief with a domestic violence component, both felonies,” the sheriff’s office said in a news release. “After review of the situation and in accordance with department policies and standards of conduct, the employee has been terminated from employment effective today, November 12, 2025.”
The trouble began just after midnight Nov. 10 with an argument between a mother and daughter, according to charging documents filed Wednesday in Pierce County Superior Court. Tacoma Police officers responded to a dispatch call for a domestic disturbance and destruction of property.
Arriving officers spoke with the woman, who said her 43-year-old daughter had just left after an argument. The daughter left the dog with her mother, went to the bar, drank and forgot to pick up the dog. According to the police report, the daughter was verbally abused.
“(The daughter) called her mother names using profanities,” the police report states.
The two women continued to argue until the mother told her daughter to leave.
“(The suspect) walked into the kitchen and began knocking/throwing objects around the kitchen,” the report states. The daughter also broke her mother's phone screen.
The mother warned her daughter that she would call 911. The daughter dared her to do so, according to the police report. Mother called. The daughter left.
Tacoma officers later arrested the daughter at her apartment at another address in the city. She was booked into the Pierce County Jail. She was charged Wednesday and ordered to have no contact with her mother.
The sheriff's office announced the woman's firing hours after she was charged.
“The Pierce County Sheriff's Office holds all employees, sworn and civilian, to the highest standards of integrity and accountability,” the department said in a press release. “The public places tremendous trust in our office, and we take that responsibility seriously. Any behavior that undermines that trust will be addressed quickly and transparently.”
Because the daughter is not a law enforcement officer, The News Tribune prefers not to name her. Before being fired, public records show she worked in the sheriff's sex crimes unit and earned an annual base salary of $62,400 as of 2023. Her trial date is tentatively set for January 5, 2026.
