Tony Bamonte (1942-2019)
Tony Bamonte, a prolific local historian and the three-term Pend Oreille County sheriff and who unearthed evidence of a police cover-up in the murder of the Newport town marshall 54 years after the crime, died Thursday. He was 77.
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Tony Bamonte of Spokane stood near the tunnel of the Evolution Mine East of Kellogg, Idaho on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. He was researching and writing a book about the Coeur d'Alene Mining District.
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Magazine authors Tony and Suzanne Bamonte and their historic accounts of Spokane and North Idaho in 2003.
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Tony Bamonte, 6th Legislative House Candidate in 2002.
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Tony Bamonte in this 1994 photo.
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Tony Bamonte was seen by many as someone who would shake up the sheriff's office in 1994.
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September 7, 1994. SPOKANE. Tony Bamonte, 52, was a candidate for Spokane County Sheriff. Bamonte is a former Pend Oreille County Sheriff.
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P.O.C. Sheriff Tony Bamonte escorts murder suspect William Housam in 1989.
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Tony Bamonte in 1983.
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Sheriff Tony Bamonte in Newport in this undated photo.
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Tony Bamonte, Sheriff in this undated photo.
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