A 28-year-old Spokane man suspected of kidnapping and extortion remains in Kootenai County Jail after escaping a friend's home during a SWAT standoff Thursday in Post Falls, only to be caught later. Post Falls police responded to a house at 204 W. 17th Ave. just…
After leading a police on a chase in a stolen car Wednesday, and then spending 36 hours in a hospital for swallowing drugs, Kurt C. Lamarr, of Spokane, landed in jail Thursday evening.Early Wednesday, a Spokane police officer spotted a stolen silver Nissan sedan driven…
What do David Miller, John C. Cooney, Dallas Cooney; Christian Phelps, Ronnie Rae, Frank Cikutovich, Paul Mack, Frank Bartoletta, John Clark, Rob Cossey, Tony Hazel, Jared Cordts and Larry Steinmetz have in common, other than law degrees? All apparently donated to a Guatemalan orphanage supported…
Police rearrested an alleged graffiti artist this week on felony charges after a judge allowed him to leave jail on misdemeanor counts of malicious mischief.Zakk M. Holder, 21, was ordered held in Spokane County Jail on $5,000 bail after appearing before Superior Court Judge Michael…
A 26-year-old man is accused of peeping into windows in Liberty Lake over the last six weeks in search of undressed women and sexual activity. Samuel J. Hall appeared in Spokane County Superior Court Thursday on a voyeurism charge after a man said he’d spotted…
A Grant County woman is accused of sexually abusing children over an Internet camera that was viewed by people across the county.Pamela K. Ortega, 29, pleaded not guilty this week to four counts of first-degree rape for alleged incidents in March and April. The investigation…
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