Mayor Suzette Cooke swore in Kent’s newest police officers during the Sept. 20 City Council meeting.
Officers Ian Lentz, Chellsi James and Matthew Levi joined the force.
• Lentz worked two years as a corrections officer at the city jail. He was raised in Puyallup and is married with three children.
• James, from Montana, is married to a Seattle Police officer and they have two kids. She previously worked as a preschool teacher and nanny.
• Levi, who is married with two children, came to Kent after seven years as a sheriff’s office deputy in northern Nevada.
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