A Farmington, Wash., man has surrendered to the FBI on allegations he kidnapped a teen from the side of the highway in Tensed, Idaho, on Friday and raped her. Patrick H. Stiller, 32, turned himself in to FBI agents in Colfax on Tuesday afternoon. Stiller surrendered because of intense publicity surrounding the case, according to FBI Supervisory Senior Resident Agent Don Robinson.
Kootenai County might house inmates for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe as soon as this month under a proposed agreement county commissioners will consider today. The tribe approached Kootenai County when Benewah County officials recently decided to cut off jail and dispatch services for the tribe after years of providing those services.
Someone's playing mean. Patrick Rotchford, who owns a Coeur d'Alene window tinting company, can't get bargain hunters to leave him alone after bogus ads appeared in the latest issue of Nickel's Worth claiming he had cheap cars for sale and free puppies in need of homes.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is looking for information on the killing of an adult bull moose poached and left to rot near Chilco this week. The moose carcass was discovered about a half mile from Chilco Road and about a mile west of the Chilco Sawmill, according to Fish and Game. The moose was illegally shot between 4 p.m. Wednesday and 8 a.m. Thursday.
A Coeur d'Alene drug smuggler who was sentenced in 2004 to 12 years in federal prison has lost his appeal for a lighter sentence. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Nate Norman's argument that his prison sentence was "unreasonable" compared with the sentences given others in the marijuana smuggling case.
Wayne Longo will wear his Idaho State Police uniform through the end of the week, but they were already calling him chief Wednesday evening at a public meeting. Longo, whose new job as Coeur d'Alene's police chief begins Monday, answered questions from residents concerned about everything from gangs to drugs to violent crime. He talked about confronting those problems head on.
The son of Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas was sent to jail Tuesday for violating terms of his probation for prior convictions. As his parents sat in the front row of a Kootenai County courtroom, 24-year-old Jeremy Douglas admitted to a May 2007 incident in which he pulled a gun on another man, then beat the man in the head with the firearm.
A Kootenai County magistrate reduced bail by a half-million dollars for Richard Hanlon, a Post Falls bar owner charged with burning down a competing bar. Meanwhile, Post Falls police said Thursday they haven't reviewed a surveillance video they touted at a press conference Wednesday as being strong evidence in the case.
A Kootenai County judge shouldn't have dismissed a civil sexual abuse suit against a prominent local businessman, an attorney for the man's adult daughters argued Thursday in front of the Idaho Supreme Court. First District Judge John P. Luster last May dismissed a civil suit brought against James Deffenbaugh by his daughters, who accused their father of molesting them as children in the late 1970s.
