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Sirens & Gavels archive for Oct. 7, 2009

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7, 2009

Chief responds to Center for Justice story 

Spokane police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick just fired off a fierce e-mail responding to this story by BIll Morlin for the Center for Justice. The article states that Kirkpatrick confirmed "widely circulated rumors that she has been looking for a job elsewhere, including a recent opening…

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Mitchell A. Hardin’s  public defender, Todd Porter, refused to go near him last week, expressing fear over catching an illness because Hardin was among jail inmates required to wear a mask. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

And it keeps spreading...

The swine flu has arrived at the Shoshone County Jail. An inmate has tested positive for the H1N1 virus, the Shoshone County Sheriffs Office announced today. The inmate complained of flu-like symptoms a week ago and was tested for the virus at a hospital. "Since…

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Adin Stevens displays shirts he printed on a whim weeks ago celebrating teenage fugitive  Colton  Harris- Moore Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, in his printing shop in Seattle. Whenever police get near  Harris- Moore, the teen seems to disappear and the crime spree is beginning to feel like something out of the movie "Catch Me If You Can." Since escaping from a halfway house last year, the 18-year-old suspected in more than 50 burglaries and now, say authorities, stealing airplanes. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) (Elaine Thompson / The Associated Press)

Teen bandit becoming national sensation 

His following seems to grow as quickly as the list of crimes people speculate he may have committed. Colton Harris-Moore has been something of a legend in the town of Camano Island, where he grew up and is suspected of nearly 50 burglaries and thefts,…

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