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December 24, 2011 in News
Police arrest fugitives at Spokane Valley motel
Two wanted by the FBI for stealing from a corpse they found were arrested Friday at a Spokane Valley motel after a multi-state manhunt.
Jerod M. Reeves, 29, and Kimberly M. McCaffery, 35, both of Craig, Colo., were booked into Spokane County Jail about 10:30 p.m. Friday. They are suspected of stealing items from the scene of a father-son murder-suicide last week in their home state.
Each is suspected of tampering with physical evidence, criminal possession of a financial device (credit cards), and first-degree criminal trespassing, according to The Associated Press.
The FBI notified local authorities Friday the two were in Spokane Valley, and police tracked them to the Red Top Motel on East Trent Avenue. Officers surrounded the motel and the two surrendered without incident.
Police say the pair cut off the father’s finger to steal the pistol he was holding after they stumbled across the scene, but the stolen pistol was not located in their room. Both face extradition to Colorado.
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misjustice on December 24 at 6:31 p.m.
EWWWW….suffice it to say that nutin’ good ever goes down at the Red Top Motel. Creepy…
Milan70 on December 24 at 8:38 p.m.
It is getting bad when they steal from a dead person.
oneanddone on December 25 at 5:34 a.m.
Right Milan, always better to steal from live people.
The_Seer on December 25 at 11:25 a.m.
How can you “steal” from dead people?
They’re dead, right?
Do you mean I’ve been lied to all my life when being told “you can’t take it with you?”
Why The Red Top Motel? The pair were binging on a “stolen” credit card so they could have stayed anywhere in Spokane.
PassinThru on December 25 at 2:44 p.m.
Check the online reviews (I ck’d Yahoo local) for this motel. It will help explain why they were there instead of the Davenport.
rterrylynch on December 26 at 7:30 a.m.
There is a reason they call it DOPE. Those that use it are dopes. These flakes thought (bad word) imagined, better word, that because the motel was out the normal traffic, they would not be found.
Simply put… having worked in the industry before retiring, I found the DOPES will land somewhere… often in the fanciest and best addresses just like they will land in an older motel. The bad guys are not the motel, they are the DOPES.
A friend once had the Red Top and they ID’d everyone, I wonder if the current operators do that. We ID’d everyone unless they were repeats and on file.