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An unpaid bill for $20,000 worth of sex acts apparently led to a confrontation Monday that injured a Wollochet Bay-area man and left one of his suspected attackers hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
Pierce County prosecutors Tuesday charged two men with assault and burglary for going to Terry Riggs’ home and beating him because he hadn’t paid his escort service bill, court documents say.
Prosecutors said Riggs, 57, was acting in self-defense when he shot one of his intruders, but likely will face a felony charge today for a marijuana-growing operation sheriff’s deputies say they found in his home.
Deputy prosecutor Phil Sorensen said Shawn Paul Becklund and John Bradford Oleary attacked Riggs at his home in the 2600 block of East Bay Drive Northwest on Monday.
Becklund, 33, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to first-degree burglary, second-degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm in Superior Court. He is being held in the Pierce County Jail on $40,000 bond. Oleary, 26, is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
Riggs told detectives he had been paying a woman for sex for more than a year. He said the woman came to his house on New Year’s Eve and gave him a $22,000 bill for services rendered. He refused to pay and called the woman’s mother.
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