Secret Witness Seeks Biker, Carjacker
A biker with a violent history is this week’s Secret Witness target.
Evan Ellis Barton, 29, is a member of a local biker gang and now is wanted by police for questioning in a number of crimes. He is heavily involved in the methamphetamine trade, police said.
Barton has 26 arrests and seven convictions. He is wanted on three warrants, including one no-bond felony warrant.
He is 5 feet 8 inches tall, 165 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
Residents who know the whereabouts of Barton are asked to call Secret Witness at 327-5111. A cash reward is offered, and callers do not have to give their names to be eligible.
Secret Witness is offering a special $1,000 cash reward for information leading to the arrest of a young man who may have been involved in a series of assaults and thefts.
All the incidents occurred in Spokane on Friday, Sept. 29 before noon.
The first started at 8:30 a.m. as a couple on East Nebraska saw a man rummaging through their car.
The wife went to call police and the suspect hit her husband on the face and head with a broom handle. The suspect threatened to kill him with a rock and ran.
An hour later, a man fitting the same description tried to get into a car at 6000 North Division. A construction worker yelled at him, the man said it was his car, but then left.
At 10:45 a.m. the same man was seen at a car in the Franklin Park Mall. As the car’s owner, a 64-year-old woman, approached, the suspect grabbed her and demanded the keys.
He choked her and struck her several times in the face, then took her keys.
An off-duty jail employee attempted to block the car with his vehicle and fired one shot in an effort to stop the man from escaping.
The man is described as a black male in his late teens or early 20s. He is about 5-foot-9 and weighs between 160 and 190. He was wearing a black stocking cap.
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