A Spokane Valley man will spend 23 years in prison for helping run a meth ring that distributed more than 33 pounds of the drug, the U.S attorney's office for the Eastern District of Washington announced today. Daniel A. Flaherty, 36, also will be on…
An employee with Fairchild Air Force Base’s Survival Training Center is accused of raping a woman in an interrogation room. Michael W. Fassbender, 32, is in Spokane County Jail on $20,000 bail after appearing in Spokane County Superior Court via video Wednesday on one count…
It didn’t take long for police to identify two suspects in two recent high school locker rooms thefts. A couple of surveillance photos of the culprits did the trick. “We got flooded with tips, not only from law enforcement officers…but just from everywhere that it…
Detectives are looking for a love seat that was removed from a homicide victim's home before a search Tuesday, Sgt. Dave Reagan said today. Jesus J. Torres Valdovinos, 25, (left) was found dead and wrapped in two blankets near Green Bluff Sunday. The Spokane County…
Internet postings could hold clues to why an Iraq war veteran shot his wife to death before committing suicide, according to a search warrant filed today in Spokane County Superior Court. Chadwick and Jessica Olson, both 21, were found dead Aug. 29 at Chad Olson's…
A 57-year-old woman with at least 32 criminal convictions dating back to 1981 was sentenced to a year in prison and a year probation today for a low-level jewelry heist. Lawanda Hopkins-Sparks, who a prosecutor once told a judge has "more experience with misdemeanor citations…
A Stevens County man accused of killing his wife is undergoing mental evaluations at Eastern State Hospital. Craig R. Cosby, 68, called 911 Oct. 3 after killing his wife and was arrested in the front yard of his home in the 1200 block of Overlook…
Two Deer Park men have been identified as suspects in an OxyContin robbery that police linked to a 20-year-old woman. Jed L. Boles, 31, (left) and William E. Higgins, 21, (right) face charges of first-degree robbery for allegedly helping Ariel A. Arrieta rob the Rite…
The Jeep allegedly stolen by a double murder suspect and his girlfriend in Coeur d'Alene this month contained a coin depicting the famous outlaw duo Bonnie and Clyde. "It's just kind of weird," said Julie Forsythe, a single of mother of three now out a…
New orders from the U.S Justice Department to end federal prosecution of state-authorized medical marijuana patients and dispensaries will have no effect on cases in Eastern Washington, prosecutors said Monday. The policy memo issued today calls for an end to prosecution of medical marijuana patients…
An order order issued Wednesday by U.S Magistrate Cynthia Imbrogno stated Canadian cocaine suspect Michael B. Yuill's employer was being investigated "relevant to the pending charges." Not true, according to this document filed Friday. "The Government did not intent to assert that the Defendant's former…
A man accused of attempted murder is due in court today after nearly three months on the run. Timothy "Stoney Boy" Lucious, 38, was booked into Spokane County Jail early Sunday morning in connection with a July 24 shooting in south Spokane that began with…
Search warrants are filed just about daily in Spokane County. Homes and cars are the most common targets, followed by cell phones, purses and backpacks. Sometimes there will be a search warrant to obtain a DNA swap from a suspect, but rarely do I see…
The attorney for accused double murderer Justin Crenshaw wants all statements Crenshaw made to detectives thrown out as evidence for his February trial, according to a motion to suppress filed this week. The legal question at hand: Were the statements from Crenshaw given during a…
A Spokane man accused of shooting two men to death over a car trade says the slayings were in self-defense. Merle W. Harvey, 27, shot Jack T. Lamere, 41, and Jacob J. Potter, 45, after “three guys surrounded my truck with guns,” Harvey told a…
An Iraq war veteran who robbed a pharmacy of OxyContin while undergoing drug abuse counseling will stay in jail for three more months. Terran D. Schatz, 24, was sentenced to six months in jail Friday after pleading guilty to second-degree robbery. He'll be credited with…
A huge marijuana bust this morning uncovered an international operation that shipped duffel bags of pot down the Kettle River, according to the Spokane Police Department.About 40 pounds of marijuana, $70,000 and a grow room were found at a home in Stevens County in an…
Two men accused of using a teenage girl to lure a robbery victim spent the money on a shopping spree at a Spokane mall, court papers allege. The purchases helped detectives build the felony case against Richard W. Hall and Ronald E. Davis, both of…
A teenager charged with second-degree murder for a fatal stabbing in January has a warrant out for his arrest after failing to show up for a court hearing. Christopher E. Hooper, 18, (left) and Michael L. Summa, 20, and Tylor T. Buttolph, 19, are accused…
A 67-year-old Plummer man was sentenced today to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of a violent rape. Gary Allen Srery, who has a criminal history dating back to the 1960s, must serve eight years of the sentence before he is eligible…
A Newport man whose intent to manufacture methamphetamine conviction was thrown out by the state supreme court because of procedural error was re-convicted Wednesday by a Spokane jury. Virgil Montgomery has already served his 51-month prison sentence imposed after he and a friend were arrested…
After a hitch getting the jury seated, a deputy prosecutor told the panel today why they should convict a 19-year-old Spokane man of attempted first-degree murder after he shot a man several times in a parking lot on Sunset Hill. Deputy Prosecutor Dale Nagy told…
Spokane police have arrested a 5-foot-tall woman in connection with a Sept. 27 pharmacy robbery and believe she may have been struck with a metal bar this week in a thwarted attempt at a different store. Ariel A. Arrieta, 20, appeared in Spokane County Superior…
After listening to descriptions of the years of pain he inflicted on his victims, Robert J. Robel stood to face the judge who would send him to prison for what could be the rest of his life. The former security supervisor for The Spokesman-Review, convicted…
WASHINGTON – If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Gonzaga University law professor Rosanna Peterson would become the first woman to serve on Eastern Washington’s U.S. District Court bench. President Barack Obama announced Peterson’s nomination Tuesday for the vacancy left after Judge Fred Van Sickle’s move…
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