Spokane police have identified a man who was shot Monday by a woman while trying to steal medical marijuana plants as Raymond P. Bates, 49. Bates was scheduled to appear in Superior Court today on a first-degree robbery charge. Bates was treated at a hospital…
A woman who robbed a disabled man at knife point with her boyfriend last year has been sentenced to about seven years in prison. Jeanette E. Menghini, 44, was given 87 months in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and second-degree taking…
A convicted car thief took a man living in a Jeep Cherokee for a wild ride late Friday that nearly included a head-on collision with a Spokane police cruiser, officers say. Tyray H. Munter, 24, (pictured) who has previously led police on high-speed chases, is…
A Spokane man was arrested on assault and attempted robbery after police found a prostitute bleeding from her head and barely conscious James R. Jacobson, 32, is accused of assaulting the woman with a large rock while trying to get back $40 he'd given her…
A Spokane man whose guilty plea was overturned because of a sentencing error is accused of trying to intimidate a witness in his upcoming trial. Michael Duke Coombes, 31, appeared in court Monday on a witness tampering charge after investigators say he asked another inmate…
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