In brief: Thieves steal wire, power tools
Metal thieves have struck again, stealing about $3,000 in copper wire and $5,000 in power tools from an Inland Power and Light storage yard last week.
Spokane County sheriff’s deputies believe the burglars cut razor wire off the perimeter fence at 10110 W. Hallett Road, just south of Spokane International Airport, according to a sheriff’s news release. Once inside, the crooks stole 810 feet of copper wire and tools from several Mountain Power Construction Co. trucks.
“It seems to be happening more and more regularly as the metal prices keep rising,” Inland Power spokesman Dan Villalobos said.
Employees guessed the theft happened between June 8 and 12, though they didn’t notice some of their tools were missing until showing up at job sites, the release stated.
Deputies recovered some stolen items and will process them for fingerprints, according to the release.
Restored bombers to be on display
Three examples of flying history will be in the sky over the Inland Northwest and on the ground at Spokane International Airport next week.
A restored B-17, B-24 and B-25 will fly into Spokane on Monday around noon, landing at XN Air, at the airport’s general aviation side, 8125 W. Pilot Drive. The planes will be on display through 5 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, with some 30-minute flights in the morning and afternoon.
The planes belong to the Collings Foundation, which restores historic planes and supports its work in part with tickets to tour the planes on the ground or take the flights.
Ground tour tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children under 12.
Reservations for the flights range between $325 and $425, depending on the plane, and are tax deductible.
Information on flight reservations is available at (800) 568-8924.
Latah County
Man arrested in shooting death
Latah County sheriff’s deputies arrested a man in connection with the shooting death of a man near Genesee, Idaho, on Tuesday.
James Curtis Leonard, 23, was arrested about 1 p.m. on charges of voluntary manslaughter. The crime was reported about 3:40 a.m. as shots were heard on Sprenger Road near Genesee.
Deputies found a man dead in the driveway outside the home, Latah County sheriff’s spokeswoman Rhonda Bunney said. The victim was Tyler Pace Lee, 25, of Moscow.
Bunney said she did not know how many times Lee had been shot or what the motive for the shooting might be. No one else was injured.
Pullman
Police searching for 17-year-old boy
Pullman police are looking for a 17-year-old boy who has been missing since early Saturday.
Dustin J. McGinnis was last seen at about 1 a.m. that morning after storming out of his house, police Chief Ted Weatherly said. McGinnis’ parents told authorities he has never been missing this long.
“Very seldom do you have a family that says to you, ‘This is very out of character, and we think there’s something wrong,’ ” Weatherly said.
Police have classified the case as a missing/runaway person, he said.
McGinnis is white, 5-foot-8, weighs about 150 pounds, has brown eyes, short sandy-blond hair and a faint mustache, according to a news release. He was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, blue jeans and a white T-shirt with a picture of Benjamin Franklin dressed as a bank robber.
Longmire, Wash.
Copter retrieves body of missing hiker
A missing hiker from Minnesota was found dead Tuesday in a rugged area in the southwest corner of Mount Rainier National Park, a park spokesman said.
The body of Jeff Graves, 47, of Minneapolis, was first spotted by a helicopter Tuesday afternoon, Kevin Bacher said. The body was found just north of the Eagle Peak trail in a very steep area at the base of some cliffs, Bacher said.
Graves had been the object of a three-day search since he was reported overdue from a planned day hike on Saturday.
The body was retrieved by helicopter Tuesday evening and was in the custody of the Pierce County medical examiner, Bacher said.
From staff and wire reports