Two Western Washington residents in Coeur d'Alene for just three days were arrested for theft after returning to the victim store the next day, according to police. Jeffrey M. Platt, 43, and Alyson M. O'Hara, 37, are accused of stealing three rings from the Wiggett…
The vehicular homicide trial of Jonathon Bales raised an interesting legal question that a defense attorney made his focus during opening arguments: At what point does a driver become impaired after smoking marijuana? Deputy Spokane County Prosecutor Mary Ann Brady argued to the jury Monday…
If city leaders want body cameras to become a standard part of the Spokane Police Department uniform, they’ll have to first work through what the city’s top cop says could be the key hindrance: Spokane police officers. The Spokane Police Guild is using the city’s…
Inmates at Geiger Corrections Center helped clean up thousands of dollars worth of damage to the city park in Rockford recently. Three young teens have been charged as juveniles with the vandalism, which was reported May 21. Another boy is facing a trespassing charge. The…
An open side door on a Ford Aerostar van that was leaving a motel near West Sunset Boulevard led a sheriff's deputy to arrest the driver on a heroin charge Monday. Steven Keith Willard, 48, replied "ya" when Deputy Mark Smoldt asked him if he'd…
A report of a burglary at a vacant home in near Holy Cross Cemetery in north Spokane Tuesday led deputies to arrest two people and seize a methamphetamine and a backpack stolen in a vehicle prowling last March. Christine Lorrain Blumenshein, 40, and Robert K.…
A sheriff's deputy who fell while chasing a fleeing suspect last month got lucky in a traffic stop early Tuesday and located the man's roommate. The driver alerted Deputy Ryan Truman that suspect Brandon J. Hoffman, 22, was living at his home in the 12500…
Testimony began Tuesday in the second vehicular homicide trial against a Spokane man who killed a woman riding a scooter north of Spokane in 2010. Jonathan P. Bales, 22, is facing a second trial after a jury deadlocked and could not come to a unanimous…
A Spokane County jury on Tuesday saw graphic photographs and heard descriptions of the tire-iron attack last year against a man who came to the United States as a refugee from Iraq after helping the U.S. military Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Larry Steinmetz told the…
Here's a news release from Deputy Craig Chamberlin, spokesman for the Spokane County Sheriff's Office: On Monday, June 4th, 2012, the Liberty Lake Police Department Contacted a magazine company called Strickly Business 1. The company was attempting to sell magazine subscriptions door to door without…
A disagreement between the interim Spokane police chief and the police ombudsman about the handling of a recent complaint is getting the mayor’s attention. Ombudsman Tim Burns is asking Mayor David Condon to force the Spokane Police Department to investigate a complaint that arose when…
Employees at a Spokane grocery store pepper sprayed the front doors to try to stop two suspected booze thieves from attacking them on Friday, police say. Police say Kerry Alan Zaugg, 24, appeared to be preparing to assault an employee at Grocery Boys, 3430 N.…
Spokane police released this and other surveillence photos of the armed robbery at McDonald's May 25. View more here. A takeover-style robbery that targeted customers and employees at a McDonald’s in south Spokane may be connected to a similar gunpoint attack at a nearby home…
BOISE - As Idaho’s news media spar with the state in federal court over limits on access to executions, the case has turned a spotlight onto Idaho’s long and consistent history of media witnesses attending its state executions to serve as the eyes and ears…
A motorcyclist who sped past a sheriff's deputy with the bike's lights off and without a helmet may also have low self esteem, the sheriff's office said today. Damian M. Plumley, 22, reportedly told Deputy Juan Rodriguez, "I'm stupid, Rodriguez. I should never have tried…
Sheriff's deputies linked a car theft Memorial Day weekend to a residential burglary in Spokane Valley because the victim homeowner wrote down the license plate of the thief's getaway car, officials said today. A man who owns a home in the area of 4600 E.…
The sounds of motorcycles led sheriff's deputies in Pend Oreille County to identify two burglary suspects this week. Sean T. Ponder, 26, and Reesa M. Yancy, 23, were arrested last week after a residential burglary on Deer Valley Road near Newport. They're accused of stealing…
A botched search for child pornography at the home of a Spokane firefighter will cost Washington taxpayers $2.4 million. The Washington State Patrol and the attorney for Spokane Fire Department Lt. Todd Chism have settled a lawsuit stemming from the January 2008 search of Chism’s…
A police officer saved the life of a bicyclist who was hit by an SUV on Monday, officials say. Officer Paul Carpenter responded to the crash at Park Place and Columbia Circle and found a witness trying to administer CPR to the 50-year-old man. The…
A bailiff at the Kootenai County courthouse lost his job recently after he was arrested on child sex abuse charges. Jack David McPike, 31, of Athol, is accused of sexually abusing a girl from 2006 until this month, when the girl told a school counselor…
Spokane police released this photo of the March 29 crash. A Deer Park man pleaded guilty today to a hit-and-run crash earlier this year that injured three people in Spokane. Christopher L. Smith, 52, told Superior Court Judge Maryann Moreno that he blacked out when…
A man accused of burglarizing a Spokane County deputy prosecutor's garage was arrested for another burglary just eight days after he left jail. Chance Karl Occhipinti, 42, was free on $3,500 bond when he and a friend broke into a garage in the 1000 block…
A man suspected in a Boise home-invasion robbery was arrested recently near Spirit Lake. The Kootenai County sheriff's SWAT team took Bryson G. Smith, 27, into custody Wednesday at 28128 N. Highway 41. A confidential source told detectives Smith was hiding at the address and…
By KASEY JONES,Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) — A 21-year-old college student accused of killing a housemate told police he ate the victim's heart and part of his brain after he died. Alexander Kinyua hid the head and hands of the dead man in his family's…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Motorists have reported a sharp-dressed pig running loose on a highway just outside of Pittsburgh. State troopers also spotted the animal but failed to catch it before it scurried off into the woods. The pig is wearing a scarf. The sightings were…
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