A small body frame may be helping fuel a string of burglaries in north Spokane.Detectives believe a smaller man has been breaking through windows to allow his larger accomplice inside, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said today.A woman arrived home in the 6500 block of…
Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich expressed doubt today that the City of Spokane could save any money by hiring a private company to run a municipal lockup. “We looked at privatization,” Knezovich said, adding the department had talked with a Montana company while researching options for a…
An Internet ad offering a 4-year-old boy for $5,000 that launched a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office investigation and drew international attention turned out to be the work of a bored North Idaho teenager.Sandpoint police tracked the Craigslist ad to a 17-year-old boy, who told an…
Spokane police are looking for a domestic violence suspect they believe escaped before officers surrounded his Hillyard home for four hours on Saturday. Police say Pedro J. Garcia, 35, was reported to be suicidal when they arrived at 2900 E. Diamond shortly before 8 p.m.…
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Snohomish County jury cleared an Everett police officer Monday of criminal charges in the shooting death of a drunken-driving suspect in a restaurant parking lot. Officer Troy Meade was acquitted of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter, The Herald newspaper of…
Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick is one of 11 finalists to lead Seattle’s police force. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn’s office released the list Monday in a news release. The finalists will be interviewed May 8 by McGinn’s chief search committee. Other candidates include the police…
Halloween gunfire that killed a man trying to break up a fight in downtown Spokane will send the triggerman to prison for at least 24 years in a plea deal approved recently in Spokane County Superior Court. Jonathan H. Espinoza, 26, faces up to 32…
Two Kalispell, Mont., men have been arrested for a gunpoint robbery at a North Idaho grocery store last fall. The suspects, Philip Paul-Richard Luedcke, 22 (right), and Nathan Wayne Hunt, 19, are accused of robbing the Super 1 Foods in Hayden early Oct. 17. Detectives…
Okanogan County detectives are still looking for a gunman they say killed a father in front of his two children on Friday. Javier Ramirez-Cardenas, 30, of Okanogan, (left) is accused of fatally shooting Jose Antonio Padilla-Campos, 34, in Campos' home at Johnny Appleseed Orchards off…
The trial of young man accused of a grisly double murder has been postponed. Jury selection in the trial Justin W. Crenshaw, 22, is now set to begin on June 28 - more than two years after investigators say he stabbed Sarah A. Clark and…
A man who helped rob a pharmacy last fall, then threatened a witness, will spend about 11 months in jail. William E. Higgins, 22, pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to commit first-degree armed burglary and received 11.25 months in jail and 12 months probation.…
A man robbed the Spokane Teachers Credit Union branch on Indian Trail Road this afternoon. The man handed a teller a note shortly after 2:30 p.m. that said he had a gun, but he never displayed one, police said. The robber left on foot with…
Okanogan County jurors late Thursday convicted two Spokane residents in the 2009 ice-pick slaying of a pregnant woman near Tonasket. Tansy Fay-Arwen Mathis, 30, and David Eugene Richards, 34, were convicted in the killing of Michelle Kitterman, 25, who was found dead along a driveway…
A Spokane firefighter exonerated in a child pornography investigation two years ago threatened to beat a state trooper “to death” in a confrontation that led to felony charges Friday in Stevens County Superior Court, prosecutors allege. New court documents show two Washington State Patrol troopers…
By Thomas Clouse A brain-damaged, homeless man could serve either four more months or up to five years in prison based on a sentence Friday for a rape that occurred in broad daylight on a Saturday in Riverfront Park. Terry L. Thomas, 54, earlier entered…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is set to execute a convicted killer by firing squad after a judge agreed Friday to the inmate's request for the method, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice. Ronnie Lee Gardner,…
A Spokane police K-9 who died after surgery to remove a brain tumor was honored this week by the Washington State Police Canine Association. Var, a 10-year-old German shepherd who died last June, was awarded the Medal of Valor for a March 17, 2009, shooting…
A Spokane woman who reportedly told police she's a problem gambler is accused of stealing more than $10,000 from her employer.Wendy J. Tappa, 55, was arrested Thursday on charges of fraud and first-degree theft after Spokane Valley police say she forged and cashed checks from…
A teen arrested in a fatal stabbing will spend a few more months in jail after pleading guilty today to second-degree assault. Christopher E. Hooper, 19, (left) was arrested after the Jan. 16 stabbing death of Shannon Cochran, 22. Cochran is pictured above with his…
A convicted rapist considered likely to reoffend is in Spokane County Jail after police say he exposed himself to a four-year-old girl.James A. Peterschick, 51, was drunk when officers arrived at 511 E. Indiana, where the girl's parents said Peterschick exposed himself while standing in…
A robbery suspect arrested in a Spokane Valley water park after his truck ran out of gas reportedly told police he arranged to buy methamphetamine from the victim but robbed her instead. Police found a pornographic video, a sex toy, condoms, syringes, plastic baggies along…
A Las Vegas developer acquitted by a federal jury in a North Idaho marijuana distribution case remains jailed without bail, now accused of conspiring to kill the prosecution’s key witnesses, including a Post Falls couple who testified against him. Kelly J. Polatis, (left) who worked…
Thomas A. Butler's home-invasion robbery last year didn't just earn him two bullets to his belly - it earned him a permanent spot in prison.A Spokane County jury today convicted Butler, 26, of six felonies. Under the state's three strikes law, he faces life in…
A man police call “the nemesis of Spokane Valley property owners” returned to jail Wednesday after fleeing a courtroom and falling in front of the Spokane County Elections Office. Cole T. Monson, 36, ran from Spokane County District Court Judge Debra Hayes’ courtroom after Hayes…
A jury today convicted a career burglar of killing an 80-year-old man in a botched burglary in September 2008. David K. Brewczynski, 44, (right, and above in 1997) was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree burglary and first-degree theft of a firearm for the beating death…
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