DENVER (AP) — Police in a Denver suburb say a woman was arrested for drunken driving after she complained to officers about how they parked their patrol cars as they were investigating a DUI-related crash. Trevor Materasso of Westminster police told KMGH-TV that 49-year-old Katherine…
DENVER (AP) — The FBI believe a bank robber who has held up banks on the West Coast has struck in Colorado. Authorities have dubbed him the "Ho-Hum Bandit" because of his bland appearance. The FBI says a man fitting his description held up a…
ROME (AP) — He avoided Italian police for a decade on the run, but couldn't resist his wife's lasagna. Police say Giancarlo Sabatini went into hiding in 2000, shortly after being given a 3-year, 8-month prison sentence in a cocaine trafficking case. Acting on a…
A man robbed a northeast Spokane sandwich shop at knifepoint today. The man displayed a knife at Subway, 3900 N. Market St., and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash about 3:30 p.m., police said. Witnesses said the man escaped in an older model white…
A 19-year-old Spokane man is in custody after a federal drug informant recorded him discussing how he'd stolen firearms and would "shoot it out with the cops" if he was approached. Patrick Hayes Wellman was arrested on Friday just yards from Glover Middle School and…
The sergeant at arms of the Washington chapter of the Hells Angels will remain in jail after a federal judge ruled there was probable cause to hold him on a gun charge. Ricky W. Jenks, 33, is charged with being a felon in possession of…
A “joint intelligence bulletin” issued on the day federal agents raided the Colville-area home of Kevin W. Harpham suggests that the bomb may have included a rocket motor igniter and was made in such a way to focus shrapnel at a specific target. The bomb…
A suspected drunken driver was arrested this morning after repeatedly using his house keys to try to open a home that wasn't his. John Stephen Cullen, 56, twice tried to open a front door in the 18600 block of East Courtland Avenue before police detained…
A convicted killer and rapist deemed so dangerous that prosecutors said they wished his 19-year prison term had been longer is back in jail after serving just half of his original sentence. Joseph Earl Singleton, 47, is to serve six months in jail for failing…
A 20-year-old Metaline Falls man faces federal charges for allegedly burglarizing the town's post office last weekend. Derick Ray Hughes is in the Spokane County Jail without bail after investigators determined he stole a digital camera and three money orders worth $585 from the post…
A Canadian man arrested with 71 pounds of cocaine near the international border last month will ask a judge to grant him bail next week. Jonathan Darren Smith, 39, filed a motion this week through his attorney, Jeffrey Niesen, asking to be released from jail…
A decision by Spokane County District Court to privatize the collection of all fines and fees, using the same company that handles its bad debts, is raising conflict-of-interest questions within the legal community. Defense lawyers and advocates for the poor worry that PAR Acceptance Corp.,…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Thirteen Somalis and a man from Yemen pleaded not guilty to piracy, kidnapping and firearms charges today in the February hijacking of a yacht that left four Americans dead. They entered their pleas in federal court in Norfolk, where five other…
The smell of hot pizza helped police arrest a robbery suspect Monday. Marco Antonio Rocha, 23, is accused with Courtney R. Araiza, 21, and Augustin Tello, 17, of robbing a Domino's pizza delivery driver at knifepoint after arranging a delivery in northeast Spokane. The driver…
A Spokane woman faked a heart attack during her son's first court appearance on a drug charge Monday, court officials said. An ambulance rushed to the Spokane County Courthouse but did not transport the woman, who had fallen to the floor after Judge Michael Price…
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe says he'll seek the death penalty if Byron Scherf is convicted of aggravated murder in the death of Monroe prison Corrections Officer Jayme Biendl. In announcing his decision Tuesday in Everett, Roe said jurors "should have…
A 27-year-old man was arrested on meth charges after he raised the suspicions of feed store employees by purchasing two pounds of a substance commonly used to cut methamphetamine. Suspect Henry P. Bevans' dental health apparently didn't help: The complaint noted that Bevans was toothless…
A pistol-packing St. Maries, Idaho, woman was arrested in Spokane Valley Sunday after an officer found methamphetamine in her 1993 Mercury Cougar during a traffic stop, police said today. Brenna Ann Haynes, 21, told Officer Juan Rodriguez her driver's license might be suspended and that…
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Federal agents with guns drawn raided at least 10 medical marijuana operations across Montana on Monday, the same a day that a bill to repeal the state's medical marijuana law stalled in the Legislature. Agents near Helena burst into Montana Cannabis'…
Spokane lawyer John Clark will be honored posthumously this week by the Washington State Bar Association. Clark's wife, Superior Court Judge Ellen Kalama Clark, and son, Steven Clark, will accept Local Hero Award on his behalf Friday during a meeting of the WSBA Board of…
Two patrol cars were damaged in a chase over the weekend - the fourth and fifth police cruisers taken out of service in the last two weeks. The latest crash occurred when Spokane Valley police Officers Scott Bonney and Todd Miller slammed into each other…
A groundbreaking trial for the area's medical marijuana dispensaries is set to begin today in Spokane. Scott Q. Shupe, 56, faces felony drug charges stemming from a 2009 police raid at Change, a pot dispensary he operated on Northwest Boulevard, near Maple Street. Prosecutors have…
UPDATE 3/14: Rice and Gilmore are in custody. A sex offender living as a transient in Spokane County now has a warrant out for his arrest. David Wayne Rice, 21, (left) is accused of not registering as a sex offender as his child rape and…
He grew up in rural Eastern Washington, played football in high school and worked at a fast-food restaurant as a teen. Childhood friends remember him as quiet and normal – far from the angry racist that Kevin William Harpham portrayed himself as in more than…
A convicted pimp suspected of robbing nine banks in Oregon and Western Washington is in the Spokane jail. Kevin Antoine Jones, 23, was arrested in Pullman Wednesday and appeared in U.S. District Court on Thursday. He's awaiting transport back to Seattle. Jones is charged with…
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