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Spokane police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. divorced his wife to shield his assets and force taxpayers to foot the bill for his criminal defense, the federal prosecutor in the Otto Zehm case alleged in court documents filed last week.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Durkin filed a motion asking U.S. District Court Judge Fred Van Sickle to allow the government to tell the jury in Thompson’s upcoming trial about the divorce agreement, which Durkin called a “fraudulent transfer” under Idaho law.
Thompson’s attorney, Carl Oreskovich, called the fraud
allegation “unsubstantiated.”
Read the rest of Thomas Clouse’s story here.
Past coverage and a document containing federal allegations
about Thompson’s divorce filing can be found here.
Reporter Meghann Cuniff writes about public safety news from the Inland Northwest and beyond.
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lewis8457 on May 13 at 9:09 p.m.
The USA has over 21,400 pages of documentation and 93 GB of electronic discovery versus Thompson’s few hundred pages of original discovery consisting of Thompson’s personnel files.
Thompson’s baton is not regulation it is made from iron wood the hardest wood in North America Thompson liked using the Ironwood baton because it would not break while clubbing the daylight out of some innocent person.
Thompson was coming at him with the baton raised in a loaded position as Otto turned around he saw Thompson coming at him in less then 2 seconds he was bashed in the head and neck with the first blow. The second strike was to Otto’s head again and this time Otto went down. After down Otto used the Pepsi bottle to protect his head and face Thompson ordered him to drop the bottle when Otto didn’t he was tasered. Otto tried to crawl away but officer Thompson grabbed Otto’s leather coat and continued bashing him in the back of the head with the baton. After entering store second officer (Barun) bashed Otto in the ribs a couple times to get him to unclench his arms so they could cuff him. Thompson then told officer Barun to taser Otto twice in the chest, which he did, but Otto still would not unclench his arms. Mean while Thompson delivered 7 more strikes to Otto’s lower body. Thompson ordered Otto to stop resisting but he continued to hit Otto giving Otto no time to give up. The other 6 officers showed up and restrained Otto by double cuffing him in a hog tie position and using downward force on his body. The continued force on neck and torso even though despite cries for air and Otto was restrained and not going anywhere. One of the officers saw Otto bleeding from the mouth and concern for his new shoes getting spots on them requested a spit mask from the fire men but they didn’t have one so they put a non breather mask on his face minus the oxygen tank the mask was designed to use. Even after the mask is in place they continue the downward pressure on his neck and torso for 3 more minutes. After a total of 17 minutes of this constant downward pressure they turned him over to find his face was purple.
Thompson one piece of advice for you and your buddies when you get to prison don’t pick up the soap in the shower or might get what you deserve.