Woman accused of helping killer of Wash. trooper SEATTLE (AP) - A former girlfriend of a man who killed a Washington state trooper has been arrested for trying to help him evade capture, the Kitsap County sheriff's office said Friday. The sheriff's office didn't immediately release the woman's name, but jail and court records show that it is Jessi Leigh Foster, 32, the mother of one of Joshua Blake's children. Blake, an ex-con with a history of antagonizing police, shot and killed Trooper Tony Radulescu early Thursday morning during a traffic stop, then committed suicide with a single shot to the head hours later. Shortly after the trooper's death, Blake called Foster and told her he did something bad and needed help to escape, sheriff's Sgt. Ken Dickinson told a news conference. She met him at a home on a dirt road a few miles away, where she pressed him on what he had done, he said, and even after Blake acknowledged that he "shot a cop," she continued trying to help. "She was actively trying to find a way for him to get out of the area," Dickinson said. She was still in the home with him when he killed himself as a SWAT team closed in, Dickinson said. She was arrested for investigation of rendering criminal assistance; bail was set at $500,000. It was not immediately clear if she had a lawyer. She and Blake had tussled in court over custody of their young child. In court papers he wrote that she had a severe drinking problem and was unstable. In response, a friend of hers, Carole Gonzalez, wrote that Foster was a loving mother and that Blake was never around the child because he had been incarcerated. The slain trooper was Tony Radulescu, a Romanian immigrant and 16-year veteran of the patrol who had the respect of his peers and was popular in his community. To have that compounded with a loss, it's a bad day," Patrol Chief John R. Batiste said. Radulescu, who served his entire career in the area, spoke five languages - a huge asset in investigating car theft rings with Eastern European ties, said Kitsap County Sheriff Steve Boyer, who knew him well. He practiced good officer safety," the sheriff said, his eyes misting as he spoke Thursday. Radulescu stopped Blake's truck around 1 a.m. on Highway 16. He radioed the location and license plate number. His girlfriend at the time was not Foster.