Pierce County sheriff’s deputies serve an arrest warrant from Grays Harbor County on Michael Joseph Basse at the County-City Building in Tacoma on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Basse faces multiple ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A former youth coach and University Place School District employee has been charged with multiple counts of child rape and molestation. Michael Joseph Basse, 59, was arrested on ...

Michael Joseph Basse, 59, was charged Monday in Pierce County Superior Court with four counts of first-degree rape of a child, four counts of first-degree child molestation, three counts of third ...