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Sirens & Gavels archive for July 3, 2012

TUESDAY, JULY 3, 2012


Ashley Johnson keeps a quilt with a handprint taken from Marquis Johnson moments before his organs were harvested. (PHOTOS by DAN PELLE)

End to tumultuous life saves four others

Ashley Johnson keeps a quilt with a handprint taken from Marquis Johnson moments before his organs were donated. (SRPhoto/Dan Pelle) When her husband died, Ashley Johnson knew how some people were bound to remember him. His picture was published and broadcast as one of four…

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Car stolen at knifepoint during cleaning

A woman was carjacked as she vacuumed her Chevy Camaro at a car wash near Browne's Addition Saturday night, Spokane police say. Larry D. Vermillion, 43, is accused of stealing the woman's car at knifepoint from the Brown Bear car wash, 1821 W. Sunset Ave.,…

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Prints, Facebook aid in shooting probe

A Montana man charged in connection with a February shooting outside a Spokane Valley tavern thanks in part to evidence on Facebook is back in Spokane. Jarrod E. Veilleux, 29, is accused of shooting a man in the stomach as he smoked in an outside…

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Straub tapped for Spokane police chief

The embattled top law enforcement official in Indianapolis will be among those considered for Spokane’s next chief of police. Mayor David Condon confirmed to The Spokesman-Review that he asked Indianapolis Public Safety Director Frank Straub to apply for the opening here, and Straub has told…

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