An assault that left a man in critical condition at a large party in north Spokane County led to the arrest of an 18-year-old suspect today. Treven Lewis is accused of beating a man at a home in the 11800 block of North Bedivere Road…
A sex offender considered likely to reoffend has registered as a transient in Spokane County. Harold David Werstein, 48, spent nearly 18 years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl. He was convicted of first-degree rape in Lewis County in 1990. His victim was a…
A woman who said a Spokane police officer she'd met at a bar showed up uninvited at her home told a dispatcher she didn't know how he got her address "and it's kind of creeping me out because he now knows where I live." The…
Property crime detectives are asking for help identifying two men who may have information about electronic "Nook" reading tablets stolen from the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Spokane Valley last week. The theft occurred March 4 just before 6 p.m. The Spokane Valley Police Department…
A suspect in a string of burglaries in North Idaho was arrested Friday after a shoplifting incident turned violent at the Spokane Valley Wal-Mart. Susan Burke, 50, was out of custody on $5,000 bond awaiting trial in Kootenai County when a store security officer spotted…
An informant tasked by the Spokane police drug unit with buying methamphetamine was instead robbed by the suspected dealer. Drug detectives listening on electric monitoring attached to the informant heard a scuffle after the man went inside a home in the 1200 block of West…
A North Idaho man with an extensive criminal history was shot and killed by a Post Falls police officer early Monday after striking a state trooper with his car, police say. Justin Earl Nicholas Todd, 33, died at Kootenai Medical Center after a nearly 20-minue…
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