Woman Assaulted With Telephone
A Spokane Valley man was arrested early Saturday after his girlfriend was dragged out of bed and beaten with a telephone, sheriff’s deputies said.
The 29-year-old victim was treated at Valley Hospital and Medical Center for a two-inch cut on her forehead and released.
Christopher J. Freeman, 31, was booked into the Spokane County Jail for second-degree assault, said sheriff’s deputy David Reagan.
Freeman reportedly was angry with his girlfriend of about four months, over a missed rendezvous.
The woman told deputies she was asleep when Freeman, who gave his address as 1420 S. Woodward, jerked her out of bed about 2:30 a.m. and hit her.
Deputies responded to the apartment in the 13300 block of East Mission after she apparently called 911 and was disconnected.
Court records show Freeman paid a $200 fine and served one year probation for a 1995 assault conviction.
Deputy kicked, man arrested
A Newman Lake man wanted as a fugitive in Idaho was arrested Friday night after a struggle with deputies.
Terry J. Lynch, 23, allegedly fought with deputies who were trying to arrest him at his Starr Road home. One deputy was kicked in the face.
Lynch, who gave his address as 4610 N. Starr, was booked into jail on the warrant and third-degree assault charges.
Deputy Mark Fox was kicked in the right side of his jaw during the arrest, but was not seriously injured.
Fox and deputy Mike Kittilstved had tried to talk Lynch into surrendering for about 20 minutes before he bolted out the home’s back door toward a fence, Reagan said.
The deputies captured and restrained Lynch, but he began kicking at the rear window of a patrol car. Lynch kicked Fox when the deputy opened the door to talk to him, prompting deputies to use leg restraints, Reagan said.
Fire damages Fiber-Tech business
Firefighters credit a building sprinkler system with stopping a fire at the Spokane Industrial Park last week before it spread to neighboring businesses.
A fire that started inside a paint machine tripped an alarm and summoned firefighters to Fiber-Tech Industry, Inc. last Thursday.
No one was injured by the fire.
Smoke filled the building when firefighters arrived about 7:35 p.m., and flames snaked their way out an exhaust stack on the roof of building No. 31.
When firefighters entered the building, the business’ sprinkler system had snuffed out flames around the paint machine and knocked down the fire in the stack.
Without the sprinkler system, the fire may have spread to a neighboring business that houses flammable materials, firefighters said.
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