VIDEO – LAWYER TO JAIL? –
April 17, 2025 – When Brett Ryan was arrested for DUI in 2023, the Lakewood defense lawyer he hired quickly referred him to a substance abuse treatment clinic. … we were just trying to make the attorney happy. Regularly it would kind of be just burned into your head, that’s the moneymaker,” said Alyssa Keane Keane and three other former employees who did not want to speak on the record identified Barbara Bowden as the unnamed lawyer in state records.
Judy Russo said her son was a long-time drug and alcohol abuser. “He was probably about 17,” she said, when he first started using drugs that eventually included heroin.
He had a 2017 theft conviction that was alcohol related, and he had been ordered into treatment by Bonney Lake Municipal Court.
But records provided by Russo show a Rainier Recovery counselor trainee assessed Ryan as “NSP,” no significant problem, the lowest level of diagnosis that generally requires minimal treatment.
