January 22, 2010 in Idaho

2 teens arrested after Latah County cars hit with bullets

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Two teen boys were arrested Friday on suspicion of shooting at passing cars on a rural Latah County highway.

The Latah County Sheriff’s Office and the Idaho State Police responded to the area near Highway 8 and Forks Road, just east of Helmer, Idaho, after as many as 10 cars reported being shot at by a sniper. The shootings began at about 1 p.m.

No one was hurt, but several cars were damaged.

The highway was closed for more than an hour between the small towns of Deary and Bovill, as authorities searched for a possible shooter.

Both teens were located and arrested several hours after the shootings began, and were charged with felony unlawful discharge of a firearm at a vehicle, officials said.

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  PhiltheBibliophil on January 22 at 7:29 p.m.

  Sounds like one of the Northern Idaho Home Grown Terrorist crazies finally came out of the woods!

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  spock1497 on January 22 at 10:09 p.m.

  well its sad to see this stuff happen up here in the north west,
  some of us move up here to get away from this kind of crazy stuff that is pulled from back east in the big citys.
  goes to show you it happens every where you go, but i still love it here in coeur d alene, idaho and would not change it for
  nothing in the world ,
  if convicted i think they should be treated as adults and given the same sentence as if they were adults, maybe this would deteer this from happening again

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  twoandthree on January 23 at 9:05 a.m.

  send em to Iraq, where they can practice their marksmanship.