Felony gun charges filed in wake of raid at home

Felony convictions as a juvenile led to felony gun charges Tuesday for a Spokane Valley man arrested last week after police found more than 100 items of stolen property in his garage.

Brandon J. Ferrell, 30, faces two counts of first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm in addition to theft and stolen property charges related to a raid at his home in the 2700 block of North Park Road last Wednesday, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.

A boyfriend and girlfriend led police to the home after someone alerted the pair about it in response to their Craigslist posting looking for two stolen motorcycles, according to police.

Along with the bikes and other stolen property, police say they found a .22-caliber semiautomatic pistol and a 12-gauge shotgun. Detectives re-arrested Ferrell at his home Tuesday on the gun charges after the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed his juvenile convictions prohibited him from possessing firearms.

Bonner County

Driver in fatal crash jailed

A Spokane man was transported from a hospital to a jail Tuesday on charges related to a fatal crash last Wednesday that injured him.

William D. Deardorff, 53, was booked into the Bonner County Jail on charges of aggravated drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter after spending nearly a week at Kootenai Medical Center in Coeur d’Alene, according to the Idaho State Police.

Deardorff was southbound near milepost 456 in a 1988 Chevrolet pickup when he struck a 1999 Jeep Cherokee driven by Crystal L. Bertolucci, 31, of Sandpoint, about 5:28 p.m., according to ISP.

The crash killed Kimberlee R. Dingman, 44, of Sandpoint, and sent Bertolucci’s 1-year-old child, Skylar Bertolucci, to Kootenai Medical Center with minor injuries, according to ISP. Deardorff has at least five convictions for driving with a suspended license, newspaper archives show.

Spokane

Past council meetings online

Spokane City Council meetings from 2008 can now be watched online.

City officials announced Tuesday that previous meetings and other archived city programming can be watched on City Cable 5’s page at www.spokanecity.org.

Live meetings have been available on the city’s Web site since 2002, according to a city new release.

City Cable 5 broadcasts City Council, Park Board and Plan Commission meetings.