Seagen CEO Clay Sie­gall was placed on leave af­ter an April 23 ar­rest for do­mes­tic vi­o­lence gross mis­de­meanor

Clay Sie­gall was placed on leave from his posts as CEO and chair­man of promi­nent Seat­tle-area biotech Seagen af­ter an ar­rest by the Ed­monds Po­lice De­part­ment on April 23.

At 3:41 a.m. lo­cal time on April 23, po­lice were dis­patched to Sie­gall’s home, where he was ar­rest­ed on charge of 4th de­gree as­sault do­mes­tic vi­o­lence gross mis­de­meanor, the po­lice de­part­ment’s pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer con­firmed to End­points News. Sie­gall had a court ap­pear­ance the next day, the of­fi­cer said, not­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion is now in the court’s hands.

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