Sex offender arrested on burglary, drug charges
A sex offender on the run from Texas authorities was arrested Friday after he allegedly tried to crawl in a boy’s bedroom window, officials said.
Paul Winfield Borden, 52, was arrested for residential burglary and possession of a controlled substance, said Sgt. Dave Reagan, spokesman for Spokane County Sheriff’s Office and Spokane Valley police. He also had a fugitive warrant out of Texas.
About 11:15 p.m. Friday, deputies responded to 12500 block of South Austin Road.
A woman told police a neighbor, who she knew only as Cody, had been over for dinner and a movie. He’d lived nearby for about two years.
Around 10:30 p.m., she watched him drive away, Reagan said. The woman has two sons, 11 and 15. Sometime later her eldest son started hearing noises outside his window. The 15-year-old “turned on a light and saw the neighbor Cody’s arm extending into the room through the open window. The screen had been removed and the suspect was standing on a stool outside,” Reagan said. “The suspect began whispering for the boy to be quiet. When the teen tried to close the window, the suspect tried to get in again.”
The teen alerted his mom who then discovered the front porch light unscrewed and the stool abandoned on the ground below the boys’ window, Reagan said.
Deputies were able to find Borden and arrest him, Reagan said. Drugs were found in Borden’s pockets when he was booked into the jail.
– Jody Lawrence-Turner
Medical Lake
Fundraiser to help woman with cancer
Picnic Pines Resort, 9212 S. Silverlake Road in Medical Lake, will host a spaghetti feed to benefit Linda Mitchell on Sunday at 4 p.m.
Mitchell was recently diagnosed with breast cancer that has spread to several areas of her body. She is recovering from brain surgery and is unable to work or drive. Cost for the event is $5 and will include a live and silent auction.
For more information, contact Jennifer Mitchell at 710-9097 or e-mail bitesized@gmail.com.
– From staff reports
Cheney
Irish scholar to lecture at EWU
Poet, author and Fulbright scholar Kevin Kiely, from Dublin, Ireland, will give two lectures at Eastern Washington University on Wednesday. Beginning at 1 p.m., Kiely will speak on “Irish Poetry and Prose.” At 2:15 p.m., he will present “Reflections on Contemporary Ireland.”
Kiely’s work includes numerous poems, plays and novels, many of which have been anthologized, and a recently completed biography on Francis Stuart, “Artist and Outcast.” He has also won a number of awards, including the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry 2006.
The lectures are sponsored by the departments of history and English, the Creative Writing Program, and the Centers of Excellence at Eastern.
For more information contact Martin Seedorf at (509) 359-6088.
– From staff reports