Gun collector once held in prosecutor's death to help grand jury

[flamingyouth]

It would be nice if they could finally solve this case.

SEATTLE -- A gun collector once jailed as a material witness in the assassination of a federal prosecutor has agreed to take a lie-detector test and will fully cooperate with a grand jury investigating the case, his lawyers said in a court filing Thursday.

Albert K. Kwan, of suburban Bellevue, was held for three weeks in January 2005 as part of the investigation into the killing of Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Wales. Last month, Kwan was jailed on an unrelated charge of machine-gun possession.

In a motion challenging his detention Thursday, his lawyers, Joseph Conte and Eric Stahlfeld, wrote that Kwan signed an agreement with an assistant U.S. attorney on Monday, agreeing to take at least one polygraph examination and "to fully cooperate with the grand jury." In several previous appearances before the grand jury, Kwan has invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Wales, an 18-year veteran of the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle and the president of the gun-control group Washington CeaseFire, was shot as he worked in the basement of his home in Seattle's Queen Anne Hill neighborhood on Oct. 11, 2001. According to ballistics tests, the murder weapon was a Makarov pistol outfitted with a replacement barrel.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Prosecutor_Killed_Witness.html