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The current jail is a combination of two. One building was in 1986 and another in 2005. The two are connected. In 2015, they had to make adjustments. The jail was having to turn away inmates because their addictions would overwhelm the medical unit. Now, the jail is organized to handle the addicts, women, and sex offenders better.

Paul Kenneth Keller was a local serial arsonist from Snohomish County. He claimed to have set 76 fires in his life. He started young, with experts saying he may have had an undiagnosed case of attention deficit disorder. His first arson was of a vacant house when he was eight or nine. He became a bookkeeper as an adult but lost a job when his desk somehow caught fire. This caused him to spiral, leading to divorce and bankruptcy. Between August of 1992 and February of 1993, he went on an arson spree. The worst of these occurred in September of 1992. He set the Four Freedoms Retirement Home in Seattle on fire. At first, they thought it was an accidental cigarette cause, but on further investigation determined it was set in multiple spots. He was convicted for 32 counts of arson and then convicted on the three deaths at Four Freedoms.

Theodore Rinaldo was a church leader and businessman. He had been born in New York state but moved to Washington. He started a nonprofit and several businesses in the 1970s. The nonprofit was called Ellogos and was a type of church he started at his own home. His followers donated large sums thinking it was to build a church for themselves. At the property in Snohomish County, the police investigated several tips, including working kids without pay and possible sexual relations between him and underage girls. Rinaldo was arrested on several charges and convicted for statutory rape and taking indecent liberties.

In 1916, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) came to Everett in support of a strike by shingle workers. The IWW was considered radical and the locals were not happy about them being there. Sheriff Donald McRae and 200 citizens he deputized went to confront them on November 5, 1916. Gunfire erupted when the group tried to turn back the IWW at the docks. At the end of the night, two deputies were dead and almost twenty were injured on the Sheriff's side. The IWW had 5 dead and 27 wounded. The IWW went back to Seattle. The police in Seattle arrested several of the IWW and sent them back to Snohomish County for the deaths of the deputies.