Woman Bites Attacker On University Road
A woman was able to fend off a man who attacked her in the Spokane Valley early last Thursday by biting him on the cheek.
The 18-year-old woman was walking north along University Road near Third Avenue at about 2:30 a.m. The man, who was carrying a white stick or a pipe in his hand, walked toward her along University. As they passed each other, the man grabbed the woman by the neck and flung her to the ground, said Lt. David Wiyrick, Sheriff’s Department spokesman.
He pulled the woman’s hair, tugged on her sweater and hit and kicked her several times. The woman tried to ward off her attacker by screaming and hitting him, before finally biting him on the left cheek.
The woman told deputies she thought the bite drew blood and left a mark.
The woman described her attacker as in his early 20s, about 5-foot-10, 160 pounds, with a square face and pronounced jaw line, and dark hair shaved to about one-fourth inch in length. He was wearing a bright greenish-yellow, waist-length jacket.
Anyone with information about the attack should call Crime Check at 456-2233.
Man jailed following bar fight
One man was jailed and another went to the hospital following a fight in a Spokane Valley bar late Saturday.
Richard F. Ysen, 27, who said he lived at 18321 E. Boone, was charged with second-degree assault and booked into the Spokane County Jail.
Deputies say an argument between Ysen and another man erupted into a fight when Ysen punched the man, knocking him to the ground at the Cum-Inn Tavern, 18222 E. Corbin Way.
Ysen then broke a beer glass and used it to cut the man on the face and side of his head, Wiyrick said.
Witnesses told deputies Ysen threatened to kill the man - who medics identified as 34-year-old Stephen Tabush - by slitting his throat.
Tabush was treated by medics at the scene for a cut on his nose and a gash over his left ear. Tabush was taken by a friend to Valley Hospital and Medical Center, where he was treated and released.
Ysen, who had left the bar by the time deputies arrived, was arrested at the Boone address for the assault and an outstanding warrant.
Mark C. Meredith, 22, who was not involved in the fight, was also arrested at the Boone address on an outstanding warrant.
Deputy assaulted during arrest
A man who was stopped for a traffic violation Saturday morning is accused of assaulting a deputy in the Valley.
Deputies stopped a car driven by John M. Brady about 2 a.m. for speeding and running a red light, Wiyrick said. When Brady stopped the car at 5515 E. DeSmet, he dashed from the car and around the rear of the house, deputies said.
When deputies tried to grab Brady, he elbowed one of them in the forehead, ran through the back door of the house on DeSmet and up the stairs, Wirick said.
Deputies found Brady hiding in a closet inside the house and arrested him.
Brady, 27, was charged with third-degree assault of a law enforcement officer, driving with a suspended license, failure to cooperate with deputies and was also cited for the traffic violations.
Two arrested for car break-ins
Two people were arrested after a car was burglarized early Monday.
A window in the car was broken out while it was parked in a lot at Snyder’s Bakery at 110 N. Fancher. A stereo and briefcase were taken.
Witnesses told deputies the burglars left the parking lot in a white Geo Metro.
Deputies stopped the Geo Metro about four blocks away and arrested the driver, Kari J. Shelly, 19, and a 17-year-old boy.
Flashlights, screw drivers and stolen property were found in Shelly’s car, Wiyrick said. The briefcase was recovered in a nearby parking lot.
Shelly, who gave her address as 1109 S. Edgerton, and the teenager were charged with second-degree vehicle prowling and third-degree theft.
Deputies also charged both with second-degree mischief, a felony, stemming from damage done to a car during a car burglary in the city.
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