Spokane County Sheriff's Office shared surveillance stills of a man suspected of robbing a Spokane Valley head shop. | Photo: Spokane County Sheriff's Office Spokane County Sheriff's Office needs help identifiying a man suspected of stealing a pack of Captain Kratom Thai powder from a…
WOODINVILLE, Wash. (AP) — A homicide victim’s body has been found at a Washington state home owned by the man who packed the parachutes used by infamous airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper. King County sheriff’s detectives responded to the Seattle suburb of Woodinville on Friday night…
Federal agents caught a fugitive in Spokane Valley after he was found hiding in an outhouse. Travis W. Beavers, 20, fled authorities and ditched his car near Dishman Mica Road and Appleway Boulevard around 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Spokane Valley Sheriff’s deputies helped federal agents…
Previously released footage from Pullman Police Department on Youtube shows the assault suspects leaving the Adams Mall parking lot following last month's assault of a Washington State University instructor. A video containing excerpts of surveillance camera footage from the night a Washington State University instructor…
Justin C. Werle appeared in court Wednesday afternoon and was given a $500,000 bond. Photo: Nicole Hensley A missing work glove led to a shooting between a Browne’s Addition apartment tenant and his building’s handyman. Spokane Police officers arrested Justin C. Werle Tuesday night after…
The shooting of two Spokane County sheriff's deputies last year by a reputed heroin trafficker with a penchant for firearms and a long history of felony convictions is now getting national attention. Above is a YouTube trailer for a new documentary, produced by the NRA…
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office detectives found several firearms inside a South Hill home where a man shot and killed himself Sunday. Detectives seized five assault rifles and four hand guns from the 4500 block of East Sumac Drive where 62-year-old Warren C. Schrempp, Jr. was…
Spokane Police officers have arrested a man suspected of stabbing a man several times outside a downtown Spokane bar last month. Tony M. Noble, 35, was identified by employees of Bowl’z, Bitez and Spirtz as a possible suspect for stabbing a male victim ten times…
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state is delaying its timeline for granting marijuana growing and processing licenses — and that means legal marijuana sales likely won't begin before spring of next year. Rather than issue growing licenses this summer and processor licenses this fall, as called…
With tax day looming, career criminals should take note. The IRS is advising that all earnings, including those obtained illegally, must be reported as income for tax purposes. Additionally, criminal enterprises are ineligible for the types of business deductions enjoyed by companies engaged in lawful…
A confidential informant led Spokane County Sheriff’s Office detectives to a married couple dealing meth out of a Spokane apartment, according to criminal complaint filed in United States District Court Tuesday. Spokane County Sheriff’s detectives arrested Mark W. Bush (pictured left) and Crystal K. Peterson…
A man wanted by authorities was discovered hiding out at a South Hill apartment complex on Monday night. Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies were looking for Raymond S. Wheatley, 44, a felony warrant for violating his court order, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release. A…
A Newport man being booked into Pend Oreille County Jail on Thursday was caught smuggling a stash of drugs into his shorts. The inmate, identified as 25-year-old Clinton E. Trickel, cut holes into his waisteband to hide hydrocodone, oxycodone, marijuana and a pipe, but jail…
A garbage can in Browne’s Addition was the target of about four fires starting on Saturday morning. Ray Ekins lives nearby and was walking his dog Duchess around 7 a.m. when he saw the first set of flames inside the barrel at Second Avenue and…
File this under the FYI category. The fatal shooting of a fleeing SUV thief March 25 by a gun-toting Spokane homeowner apparently has done little, if anything, to curb auto theft across the city. In fact, the number of cars and trucks stolen across the…
For the week of March 22 through March 29, here’s snippets of scanner chatter between law enforcement, dispatch and first responders. 3-23-13 @ 5:30 p.m. - A couple of kids were seen lighting pieces of paper on fire and then playing basketball at Longfellow Elementary.…
A Spokane Valley young couple with a license to wed are instead in Spokane County Jail on charges of residential burglary and trafficking of stolen property. Vyacheslav Znovets, 21, and his girlfriend Marina Florianovich, 25, were arrested by Spokane Valley detectives after they allegedly sold…
A Coeur d’Alene man who attempted to strangle his girlfriend last year has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and multiple felony convictions. An ex-girlfriend told authorities she feared for her life when Kenneth E. Schleining, 38, choked her until she…
A felon arrested on outstanding warrants threatened a Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy during his ride to jail and told him “the knife’s coming out” next time, according to court documents. Deputy Nathan Bohanek found William L. Moore loading items onto a trailer behind a business…
A man with a history of lewd behavior has been arrested by Spokane Police for allegedly masturbating in River Park Square. A security guard caught Dean H. Meginniss, 55, masturbating in front of a female employee on the third floor on March 14, according to…
A Colville Police officer is on paid-administrative leave because of allegations of sexual misconduct, according to Stevens County Sheriff’s Office, who is investigating the matter. Investigators began looking into the allegations against Officer Rex Newport earlier this month, but no criminal charges have been filed,…
For the week of March 15 through March 22, here’s snippets of scanner chatter between law enforcement, dispatch and first responders. 3-15-13 @ 8:46 p.m. - Dispatch tells officers there’s a “very intoxicated” 11-year-old at Post and Riverside. Medics responded to the young boy. 3-16-13…
It’s almost like the time scanner traffic said there was a pot belly pig running around the streets of Spokane on Thanksgiving, but that was never confirmed. But this is: BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — It’s not the usual thing in the Portland suburb of Beaverton,…
A bold cat made his presence known to a Spokane Police officer’s patrol car this evening after a SWAT standoff came to an end. He sniffed around the scene near Princeton Avenue and Monroe Street looking for news and ducked under the patrol car for…
Several Spokane Police officers and Sheriff’s deputies have been awarded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for protecting the community from a bomb planted by Kevin W. Harpham during the MLK Unity March in 2011. (Pictured from left to right in front row: Lt. Matt…
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