Bail was set at $25,000 Wednesday for Kevin John Broers, one of three men under investigation for first-degree arson in a Dec. 4 attack on a south Everett apartment in which a flare was fired through a bedroom window.
Broers is the same man who pleaded guilty in connection with the 2002 slaughter of 16 dairy calves and injury of 17 others in a rampage at a Monroe farm.
Broers, 21, of Everett and the two other arson suspects appeared Wednesday in Everett District Court, where Judge Roger Fisher set bail.
Bail also was set at $25,000 for Christan L. Forbes, 22, of Gold Bar. Deputy prosecutor Travis Johnson asked Fisher to set bail at $100,000 for Michael R. Maddy, 26, of Everett. The judge agreed to set the high bail after Johnson said police believe Maddy was the ringleader of the attack and that there was information that he planned to leave the country.
“I was never there,” Maddy told the judge.
Maddy is the only one of the three who waived constitutional rights and talked to police, according to court documents.
Police focused on the three after someone overheard a conversation between three men who bragged about firing the flare in the West Casino Road apartment.
In documents, police said they believe Maddy had the other two fire the flare for him. Police believe the attack was an attempt to get even with another person.
The woman occupant of the apartment was at home and said she heard a “swoosh” before she spotted the fire in her bedroom. The blaze did about $1,000 damage.
Broers got in trouble with the law in August 2002 when he and two younger teenagers beat the 33 calves in the head with baseball bats and pipes at a dairy farm. Broers played a secondary role in the calf killing, prosecutors said. The main culprit was a 14-year-old boy who pleaded guilty in juvenile court.
Broers, then 19, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree animal cruelty in adult court He was sentenced to nine months in jail and 240 hours of community service.
According to court documents, Maddy has previous convictions for assault, auto theft, second-degree robbery and first-degree animal cruelty.
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