Junior High Student Arrested For Having Stolen Credit Cards
A 12-year-old Northwood Junior High student was arrested at school last week with a pocket full of stolen credit cards and illegal prescription drugs.
The youth was charged with posession of the stolen credit cards and booked into the Spokane County juvenile detention center.
The credit cards were stolen from the Five Mile Prairie area in September.
He also had two bottles of prescription drugs taken from home - a bottle of sleeping pills and a prescription for antibiotics, said Sheriff’s Dep. Dave Reagan.
The boy took the pills because of headaches, he told sheriff’s deputies. He handed them out to friends because “they asked for them,” Reagan said.
Deputies were called to the school when administrators found the boy handing out the drugs. Deputies searched the boy, found the credit cards and arrested him.
Squabble over snowmobiles
A neighborly squabble turned high caliber last week when an Elk man threatened his neighbors with a gun.
Earl Conley, 54, pulled a .58 caliber muzzle-loading long-barrel on his neighbors after they sped past his North Valley Road home on snowmobiles.
The family included a nine-year-old boy and his middle-aged parents.
After Conley showed the gun, the boy’s father, a 48-year-old man, told Conley to relax. The family sped home and called police.
Conley told sheriff’s deputies he was hunting coyotes. He told deputies the boy was dangerous on the snowmobile.
Conley was charged with brandishing the loaded gun.
It is also illegal to ride snowmobiles on the road, said Reagan.
Parking service at NorthTown
The NevaWood COPS station is again offering a special parking service at NorthTown Mall to senior citizens during the Christmas holiday.
For a suggested donation of $3, COPS volunteers will walk seniors to their car, parked in a reserved, covered area between the Mervyn’s and J.C. Penney stores.
The COPS shop raised $2,800 during the holiday last year to support it’s crime-prevention programs. NevaWood president Shirley Henry hopes to raise about $2,500 this year.
“We are totally dependent on fund-raisers for our budget,” said Henry.
The service runs everyday from Dec. 13-28, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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