BUTTE (AP) — The FBI is investigating whether a Montana bank robbery is related to at least 18 bank robberies in Washington and Oregon attributed to "the Bad Hair Bandit." A woman wearing a short, dark-haired wig robbed the Bank of Butte Thursday, getting away…
Spokane police have arrested a suspect in a stabbing and attempted robbery at Comfort Inn last month and are asking for help locating a second suspect. Walter S. Reiter, 31, (pictured) is wanted for first-degree robbery, police said today. Anyone with information on his location…
UPDATE: Haines is in custody. Crime Stoppers if offering a reward for tips that lead to the arrest suspected methamphetamine dealer caught with stolen property in May. Anthony L. Haines, 24, didn't show up for a hearing in Spokane County Superior Court last month, leading…
A sex offender already on probation for failing to register is wanted by authorities for failing to check in weekly as required. James Richard Gilmore, 22, was convicted of indecent liberties in Spokane County in 2005. He was sentenced in March to a year of…
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — The young man dubbed the Barefoot Bandit after a cross-country crime spree brought him folk outlaw status has reportedly signed a movie deal worth as much as $1.3 million with 20th Century Fox. The Daily Herald reports that the money will…
RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The city of Renton is halting any further search warrant efforts to force Google to reveal the real name of the person who created animated Internet videos that mocked Renton police and some city employees. Renton Chief Administrative Officer Jay Covington…
Six children were taken into protective custody in Bonner County today as detectives arrested three people for manufacturing methamphetamine. Priest River residents Leuis Mark Blood, 44; Brandon N. Crump, 33; and Shauna L. Crump, 32, also face charges of injury to a child, according to…
An unemployed Spokane father was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs after police found cocaine in his car during a traffic stop. Thomas J. Boring's 7-year-old son was with him in his gray Ford pickup when a Spokane County sheriff's deputy stopped the vehicle near…
The recently disbarred lawyer who defended North Idaho attorney Edgar Steele at his murder-for-hire trial says he acted ineffectively because he was distracted by his own legal problems. Robert McAllister said his thinking process during Steele's trial in Boise, which ended with his conviction on…
An elderly Spokane Valley woman lost nearly $1,500 this year to a con man who claimed she'd won a new car. The Spokane Valley Police Department is reminding people to talk with their elderly parents about phone, mail and email scams after the 84-year-old woman's…
A couple arrested for attempted murder in Airway Heights last week will instead be charged with assault. Elijah J. Boxley, 33, appeared in Spokane County Superior Court Wednesday on a first-degree assault charge while his girlfriend, Molly E. Foote, 38, alias McBride, appeared on a…
A self-described militia leader will spend a year and a day in prison for making grenades that he said were to fight off a communist invasion. Kenneth B. Kimbley Jr., 60, was given an exceptionally low sentence this week in U.S. District Court in Coeur…
WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — Wenatchee police have contacted a gang that appeared to be the target of a fire that killed two children and warned it not to retaliate. Sgt. John Kruse says the gang was told retaliation would be very detrimental to solving the…
A man who made more than $20,000 in false mileage reimbursement by lying to the Spokane Veteran Affairs Medical Center about where he lived is to spend six months in jail. Michael Edward Harrison, 27, is to be on probation for three years and is…
Four men facing federal prison time for operating medical marijuana dispensaries in Spokane appeared in federal court Tuesday afternoon and pleaded not guilty to all charges. Charles Wright and Jon Vivian, former owners of the THC Pharmacy on South Perry Street, and Jerry Laberdee and…
A former Sandpoint real estate agent has pleaded guilty to six federal felonies for a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $2 million. Dale Edward Lowell, 59, now of Colbert, faces up to 20 years in prison when he’s sentenced in October, but a…
Spokane Mayor Mary Verner Tuesday acknowledged that the city is re-evaluating its legal position in the Otto Zehm controversy after new court documents indicate officers violated use-of-force and other departmental policies in the fatal 2006 confrontation. According to court records filed last week in the…
A former Washington legislative candidate and convicted conman will spend five years in prison for scheme that bilked a Coeur d’Alene woman out of her high-end riverside home and drew the wrath of a federal judge. “I think the bottom line in all reality is…
A man who tried to blow up his wife with a homemade bomb will spend 25 years in federal prison, a judge ruled today in Coeur d'Alene. Levi Wayne Mendenhall, 31, transported the device from Omak, Wash., to his estranged wife's home in Kamiah, Idaho,…
A man was arrested with a gun in the Newman Lake area Saturday after threatening two people, officials said. Edwin J. Valenzuela, 59, told deputies two men attacked him and punched him in his recently installed pacemaker, so he displayed his gun. But the victims,…
A 49-year-old Spokane man is to spend six months in jail for mistreating his elderly mother. Scott Patrick Morris' mother, Patricia Morris, who has Alzheimer's disease, suffered from ulcers on her heels and ankles as well as bruising around her eyes, ears and arms when…
A Spokane man wanted by Crime Stoppers after skipping the last part of his robbery and assault trial case was arrested recently after shots were fired at a neighbor trying to stop a burglary. Larry A. Powell, 54, is now awaiting sentencing and arraignment for…
A man killed in a single-car rollover crash Saturday southeast of Cheney has been identified as Eric Henager, 24. Detectives have not determined who was driving the 2005 Subaru Outback in which Henager was found dead at 2:22 a.m. on Cheney-Spangle Road, just south of…
A series of church burglaries last year has led to 23 felony charges against four suspects. The burglaries, which police say began when the main suspect and his mother stole a purse from a Mormon church, were done to feed the man's OxyContin addiction, according…
Two suspects have been arrested for a stabbing at an underage drinking party last month. Brandon C. Hoppman, 22; and James D. Summa, 16, each are charged with two counts of first-degree assault fir a July 1 stabbing in the 2900 block of East Broad…
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