Thomas Clouse

A fight outside a downtown Spokane hotel escalated into a shooting, killing one man and leaving Spokane Police scrambling to find a suspect who remains on the loose after he fled the parking lot of the Days Inn hotel.

Spokane County sheriff’s detectives have arrested the brother of the man charged with stealing more than $200,000 worth of goods from businesses. Last week, detectives charged 37-year-old Troy Baumgardner with multiple property crimes after a search warrant on Sept. 5 netted stacks of electronics, shoes and building materials reported stolen from Spokane businesses.

A man accused of slashing another man’s throat outside of a Hillyard tavern has been tied to a July shooting at the Spokane River’s Boulder Beach swimming area. Donald L. Dyson, 41, is being held on a $100,000 bond for the ear-to-ear knife slashing, and $75,000 bond on charges he stabbed a different man in the face and hand during the same fight.

Spokane Police investigators need help identifying a burglary suspect who attacked a 62-year-old woman in her home last week, leaving her with serious injuries.

Because investigators failed to turn over required paperwork, a judge on Tuesday ordered the release of a 33-year-old woman suspected of trying to torch a taxi and a building on the Riverpoint campus. Spokane County Superior Court Judge Annette Plese told Daniele L. Williamson that she would be freed following an afternoon court appearance where prosecutors had intended to seek her detention on two counts of arson, attempted first-degree robbery, armed first-degree burglary and third-degree theft. She was arrested Sunday night just after the fires were discovered, shortly after 10 p.m., according to the Spokane Fire Department.

The Spokane Police Department is investigating the death of a man discovered last week in a downtown apartment following an autopsy from which the manner of death remains inconclusive.

A 33-year-old woman suspected of setting a Spokane taxi cab on fire before setting two small fires inside a building on the WSU Riverpoint campus was released from jail today because authorities failed to complete the necessary paperwork detailing the allegations against her

Following citizens’ questions about the amount of time it took detectives to arrest a woman charged with selling marijuana to high school students, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office released more information Friday about how the investigation progressed. Detectives on Thursday raided a home at 7820 E. Buckeye Ave. and arrested 35-year-old Tina M. Jones on multiple drug charges. They found 58 marijuana plants and learned Jones had been operating an unlicensed day care at that address.

Carl Oreskovich argued Friday that former Spokane police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. should receive a new trial because federal prosecutors hid information from the defense that could have won his acquittal. However, several assistant U.S. attorneys disputed the assertions, countering that they had done everything required, and instead called into question the credibility of a forensic video expert who alleged prosecutorial impropriety.

Following citizens' questions about the amount of time it took detectives to arrest a woman charged with selling marijuana to high school students, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office released more information today about how the investigation progressed.

Spokane County sheriff’s detectives on Thursday arrested a 35-year-old Spokane Valley day care provider who had been selling marijuana to high school students. Detectives raided the duplex at 7820 E. Buckeye Ave. just after 9 a.m. and arrested Tina M. Jones on charges of manufacturing a controlled substance and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, sheriff’s Deputy Craig Chamberlin said in a news release.

Police are recommending felony assault charges be filed against two 12-year-old boys for an attack on a 13-year-old at the Hillyard Skate Park. Spokane police Sgt. Jason Hartman did not identify the suspects, who have been arrested, but said detectives submitted a request for prosecutors to charge the two 12-year-olds with second-degree assault.

Police are recommending felony assault charges be filed against two 12-year-old boys for an attack on a 13-year-old at Hillyard Skate Park.

A Spokane Valley daycare operator was arrested this morning for selling marijuana to several high school students.