Man Already In Jail Charged With Robbery Of Rosauers Market

Spokane County sheriff’s detectives charged a 22-year-old man who was already in jail on an unrelated charge with an October armed robbery of a Spokane Valley grocery store.

Detectives said Nathan J. Weis, armed with a single-barrel shotgun, robbed the Rosauers grocery store at 8517 E. Trent on October 31.

Weis allegedly ordered the night manager to open the safe, stole an undisclosed amount of money and forced the manager and another employee to lay on the floor while he fled.

Monday, detectives issued an arrest warrant for Weis, charging him with first-degree robbery. The warrant carries a $35,000 bond.

They served the warrant on Weis in the Spokane County Jail, where he is being held for a federal weapons violation.

Weis was arrested on October 31 after selling a sheriff’s deputy a sawed-off shotgun and having methamphetamines, said sheriff’s Lt. David Wiyrick. Deputies charged Weis with being a felon in possession of a firearm and drug possession, respectively, for the crimes.

Detectives are still investigating three North Side robberies for which they consider Weis, who served over two years for first-degree robbery before being released from prison in May, a suspect.

Man’s pickup damaged by rocks

Three people were charged late Monday with kicking and throwing rocks at a pickup truck while its owner waited for a friend at a Valley apartment complex.

Allen M. Ankley, Cheyenne R. Humphrey and Brad L. Curtis, all 18, were booked into the county jail for first-degree malicious mischief.

The 22-year-old man who owns the pickup told deputies he and a friend had left an apartment at the complex and were waiting for a third person.

When he started the truck and turned on the headlights, they shined into the window of another apartment. One of the men from the apartment confronted the truck owner and they argued briefly before he went back to the apartment.

A few minutes later, the man returned with three more men. The argument continued and Ankley, Humphrey and Curtis began to kick the truck and throw rocks at it, deputies said.

Damage to the truck was estimated at $1,500.

Chase nets man with cutters

Sheriff’s deputies cited a 22-year-old man for possession of burglary tools after finding him near a Valley burglary scene with wire clippers and a knife.

Deputies were directed to the block of 1800 N. Hutchinson after receiving complaints of people throwing things toward Interstate 90 about 4 a.m. last Thursday.

A deputy searching a nearby apartment complex saw Jay Klawitter crouching behind bushes, Wiyrick said. After being spotted, Klawitter, of Spokane, jumped over a fence and ran away.

Deputies chased Klawitter and found him squatting beside a house at the corner of Knox and Hutchinson.

A nearby motor home had been burglarized, Wiyrick said. Several items taken from the motor home were found beside I-90.

Another person was questioned for the motor home burglary, but was not charged.

, DataTimes