In brief: Crash kills passenger, driver is arrested

A driver was arrested Tuesday for vehicular homicide after his passenger died in an accident about 5:50 a.m. on Broadway Avenue near Freya Street.

Michael S. Lindsly, 46, was treated at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center for his injuries, Spokane police said, then booked into Spokane County Jail.

His passenger, whose name is being withheld pending notification of the family, died at the scene.

Investigators said alcohol and speed were involved in the accident along curves just east of Freya Street. Broadway was closed from Havana Street to Alki Way to allow investigators to gather evidence, said Officer Teresa Fuller in a news release.

Witnesses at the scene said the driver was headed west at high speed, probably between 70 and 100 mph. The driver failed to negotiate the curve at Alki, and the sedan ended up resting on its top off the roadway next to a building.

Staff report

Child Support agency probes disclosure error

The Department of Social and Health Services is apologizing for inadvertently disclosing the addresses of nearly 4,000 custodial parents and their children to noncustodial parents.

The error by the Division of Child Support occurred with the July 1 release of 3,950 federally required insurance forms, including 445 in Spokane, which were sent to the employers of noncustodial parents, DSHS said.

The form has since been corrected and a list of the disclosures has been reviewed to ensure none of them involved foster care or domestic violence cases, DSHS said.

Anyone who may have been affected by the disclosures may contact the Division of Child Support’s community relations unit at (800) 457-6202.

Kevin Graman

Man gets 25 years for bomb in wife’s car

A man who tried to blow up his wife with a homemade bomb will spend 25 years in federal prison, a judge ruled Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene.

Levi Wayne Mendenhall, 31, transported the device from Omak, Wash., to his estranged wife’s home in Kamiah, Idaho, where he placed it on the hood of her car. A homeowner found the box and called authorities after she noticed wires. No one was injured.

U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge called the act “an atrocious criminal attempt on the lives of others” before sentencing Mendenhall to 300 months.

Mendenhall pleaded guilty in May to stalking, transporting explosives with intent to kill, injure, or intimidate, and use of explosive material during the commission of a federal felony.

Mendenhall is required to seek mental health counseling.

Meghann M. Cuniff