A forensic audio examiner with the FBI and a private forensic consultant are expected to be called as prosecution witnesses at Edgar Steele's trial. David Snyder works for the FBI in Quantico, Va., and has reviewed reports by defense experts regarding the authenticity of audio…
Police continue their investigation into Rai A. "Sh***y" Goulsby this week, serving search warrant on his car and laptop computer. Goulsby, 45, was arrested last week on a leading organized crime charge for allegedly directing a check forgery ring. Goulsby reportedly told police he manufactured…
Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian, at podium, gives a statement during a press conference on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in San Rafael, Calif., regarding the arrest of Joseph Naso of Reno, Nev. Naso, 77, is accused of murdering four women whose bodies were found…
A Nespelem man accused of spitting in a Spokane police officer's face while drunk was back in court today after a judge deemed him too intoxicated to proceed with a hearing last week. Jack Vincent, a.k.a. Turner, who turned 40 on Monday, was "incredibly inebriated"…
Scott Shupe and other medical marijuana dispensary supporters are protesting outside the Spokane County Courthouse right now. They'll be there until at least 4 p.m., when Judge Tari Eitzen is to sentence Shupe, 56, on three felony drug charges. A jury convicted him last month…
OLYMPIA – Rules for growing, processing and selling medical marijuana passed the Washington state House of Representatives after heated debate Monday on whether the proposed law has enough safeguards to prevent sales to children. Read the rest of Jim Camden's story here. The bill passed…
Police are looking for a driver who lost as much as 100 gallons of diesel fuel on a busy Spokane Valley road this morning. Fuel began spilling from a vehicle in the southbound lanes of 2400 North Sullivan Road just before 9:25 a.m. The trail…
A teenager involved in a shooting at Hoopfest last summer will stand trial this week for an unrelated stabbing outside Club Uno in 2009. Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Adam Doe, 19, who is charged with first-degree assault for an October 2009…
A 47-year-old Cheney man is accused of burglary after his 25-year-old female neighbor said he’d repeatedly threatened to “chop her head off” before bursting into her apartment and trying to pull her shirt off. The extreme case of a bad neighbor occurred Sunday in a…
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A judge has found a Yakima defense lawyer guilty of stealing phone services from the Yakima County Jail. Visiting Judge Brian Altman found Kimberly Grijalva guilty Monday of second-degree theft, saying he believed the lawyer knew her free phone privileges were…
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — At least 17 criminal convictions in Whatcom County could be overturned on appeal because jurors were questioned inside a judge's chambers, possibly violating the defendants' rights to a public trial. The Bellingham Herald reports appeals courts have been overturning cases based…
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington's "Barefoot Bandit," who is accused of evading authorities for two years as he pilfered cars, boats and airplanes in a daring cross-country crime spree, could wind up reaching a blanket plea agreement that would avoid trials in more than a dozen…
A domestic violence suspect arrested after a standoff in north Spokane on Saturday made statements about "shooting it out with police" and "suicide by cop," police said today. James Michael Vandyke, 41, is to appear in Spokane County Superior Court this afternoon on a second-degree…
A man whose nickname is a profane word faces a charge of leading organized crime for an alleged check forgery ring in Spokane County. Rai A. "Sh***y" Goulsby, 45, (pictured) is accused of directing two sisters to cash forged payroll checks from McDonald's. Shakayla Fay…
A chronic drunken driver convicted of vehicular homicide in 1990 was arrested early Thursday on suspension of drunken driving. Lance Dean Falcon, 44, of Plummer, Idaho, had a blood-alcohol level of .167 and .162 in two breathe samples submitted at the Spokane Public Safety Building…
A Spokane man was sentenced essentially to time served today for a sexual assault in 1999 that remained unsolved until DNA caught up to him. Originally charged with second-degree rape, prosecutors agreed to allow Robert C. Graham, who also was convicted in 2000 of third-degree…
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A sheriff's sergeant will receive the state's top law enforcement award for saving a woman in her 70s from a sword-wielding man identified as her son by authorities. Sgt. Troy Brightbill of the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office burst into the West…
A suspect in a stabbing that left a man with a cut on his throat from ear to ear has been charged with attempted first-degree murder. Izaac Jermel Innes, 30, who was recently released from prison for murder, is accused of stabbing a man outside…
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for tips that help arrest a repeat offender with more than 50 mug shots. Robert Dean Raider, 36, is wanted for escape from community custody for allegedly violating his probation conditions on a drug possession convictions. Raider's dizzying criminal…
MASON, Ohio (AP) — Police say an Ohio man has been charged with a misdemeanor for barking at a police dog. A police report says 25-year-old Ryan James Stephens was charged with teasing a police dog in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason. Officer Bradley Walker…
RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The eight women and four men sat in the jury box for more than 4½ hours, listening to angry arguments from federal prosecutors and Barry Bonds' attorneys at the end of a 12-day trial that exposed…
The mystery of the man’s disappearance began with what his fiancée described as a bizarre ending to a phone call. Leighton Welch, 35, was walking in Spokane and talking on his cellphone to Michonda Weaver, his girlfriend of nearly four years. Weaver said he described…
There's an odd family dynamic in U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby's shut-down-or-face-federal-prosecution warning to Spokane-area medical marijuana dispensaries Wednesday. His younger brother, state Rep. Timm Ormsby (D-Spokane, pictured left), is among the Washington legislators trying to legalize and regulate the production and sale of medical marijuana…
MONROE, Wash. (AP) — A Washington inmate charged with strangling a corrections officer barraged state officials for decades with letters complaining about the conditions of his confinement, suggesting at least once that he might hurt someone if he didn't get sex-offender treatment. Convicted rapist Byron…
Federal authorities want to block the unsealing of court records related to the arrest of domestic terrorism suspect Kevin W. Harpham. In a 13-page response Wednesday to a request by The Spokesman-Review, with support from The Seattle Times and The Associated Press, Assistant U.S. Attorney…
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