Lieutenant Stuart Miller walks by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s office recently purchased 2014 Lenco BearCat at a media information session on Wednesday morning. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Tess Freeman)

The one thing missing from the armored vehicle now owned by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office is a logo that says "paid for by drug dealers," said Undersheriff Dan Mattos. Mattos spoke Wednesday, during a media tour the sheriff's office held to show off the county's new BearCat - an acronym for Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter-Attack Truck - purchased with drug forfeiture funds. Sheriff Ben Wolfinger said the $335,000 vehicle will primarily be used by the multi-agency, Kootenai County SWAT team. "It's going to be a shared resource, " Wolfinger said. "My goal here is to keep our people safe. If we keep our people safe, then they can keep the public safe"/Keith Cousins, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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