The Washington Attorney General announced that a former physician’s assistant from Waterville was sentenced to the maximum sentence of 364 days confinement, with one year of community custody. Eldon Leinweber will serve six months in jail, followed by six months of electronic home monitoring. The sentence was a result of a prosecution by the Attorney General’s Office against Leinweber for sexually assaulting multiple female patients. According to charging documents, Leinweber engaged in sexual contact with some female patients who saw him at a local medical clinic in exchange for prescribing them narcotic pills and medications. Prior to the assaults, all of the women told Leinweber they needed narcotic pills and all of them also admitted to being addicted to narcotics. Women told investigators that Leinweber touched them inappropriately and he invited some of them to locations away from the clinic, where he would sexually assault them.
