Dori: Before alleged Ballard kidnapping, repeat offender twice released with community bail funds

Even before Ryan Lee Popplewell was charged with an alleged attempt to steal a car with a child inside after a Ballard Little League game last week, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office considered him a “high priority repeat offender.”

Why then, The Dori Monson Show wanted to know, was this suspect – whose history includes 12 felony convictions and 28 previous arrests – out on bail in connection with three other felonies allegedly committed over the past nine months?

Despite prosecutors’ protests, documents show, Popplewell, 32, was back on the streets after a series of low bail amounts set by separate King County Superior Court judges – and

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