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PM Scanner Traffic — 2.6.13

Dylan Wohlenhaus/KHQ photographed the scene along Northwest Boulevard prior to the arrest of a fugitive who tried unsuccessfully to elude police, beginning near the Silverlake Mall and ending near the Education Corridor. More info below.

  • 5:59 p.m. Suspicious scruffy male is walking around Express lane of Post Falls Zips.
  • 5:57 p.m. Deputy reports horse is out from residence in 6500 block of 4th/Hayden.
  • 5:36 p.m. ISP reports both lanes completely blocked and is asking that w/b readerboard tell motorists to take an alternative route around crash site.
  • 5:26 p.m. Vehicle that crashed head on into guardrail @ w/b I-90/Seltice Way blocking both lanes. Male driver is conscious but injured. Traffic tied up.
  • 5:15 p.m. Mother @ Cimarron/McGuire, Post Falls, reports daughter out of control.
  • 5:01 p.m. Blue Ford Explorer w/Washington plates reported stolen in Plummer.
  • 4:15 p.m. Officer reports "large quantity of evidence" found in woods where fugitive caught (3:39 item).
  • 8 more items+ AM Scanner Traffic link below
  • 3:54 p.m. Driver of hybrid Honda possibly DUI @ s/b H41/MP 13 (near Seasons/Twin Lakes)
  • 3:45 p.m. Officers involved in arrest of speeding motorist (3:39 item) requests an ambulance to be sent to 755 Hubbard, in Education Corridor area.
  • 3:43 p.m. Officers have arrested speeding motorist and have him in custody (3:39 item).
  • 3:41 p.m. Patrol officer now in foot pursuit (3:39 item) in area of Northwest Boulevard/Hubbard, CdA, behind Lewis-Clark State College building. Speeder may have crashed vehicle.
  • 3:39 p.m. Deputy has been chasing vehicle s/b on 4th from Canfield (now passing Dave Smith Motors, south of freeway) at 80 mph. CPD Blues trying to set up spike strip to stop vehicle. Run vehicle just went past Spokesman-Review building w/patrol cars pursuing.
  • 2:27 p.m. Motorist reports possible DUI driver in Ford SUV e/b on I-90/MP 8 (Huetter).
  • 2:15 p.m. PFPD Blues checking Post Falls Library for a runaway 15YO girl named Kaitlin.
  • 1:51 p.m. Younger sibling tells officer that 15YO sister has permission from their mother to date 20YO male. But mother isn't home now. And the sister and her boyfriend are smoking pot.
  • AM Scanner Traffic


D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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