Burglar Threatens Resident With Gun
Police are looking for a man who burglarized two homes in East Spokane the night of March 5.
The man broke into two homes next door to each other at 617 and 623 S. Rebecca between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m., according to police spokesman Dick Cottam.
A woman who lives in one of the houses entered her home while the burglar was inside, and he threatened her with her own handgun, Cottam said. The woman ran out of the house, at the intersection of Rebecca and Hartson, and called police.
A police special weapons and tactics team and K-9 unit went to the house because police believed the man to still be inside. He was gone when they arrived. Cottam said the man had “carefully removed windows” at the rear of both homes to get in.
The woman described the suspect as a “very large white man,” Cottam said. No injuries were reported.
Man arrested in stolen truck
Spokane police arrested a 28-year-old man Saturday after an officer spotted him sitting in a truck that had been reported stolen.
William Troy Vaughn was arrested and charged with first-degree possession of stolen property.
An officer spotted the truck about 8 a.m. Saturday, parked in front of Vaughn’s home in the the 1900 block of East First.
Vaughn told the arresting officer he was “ruining” his life because now he wouldn’t be able to get into a drug-treatment program.
Vaughn was taken to the City-County Jail.
Television, VCR stolen
Someone who entered an unlocked home while the owner took a 30-minute trip to the store Saturday night stole a television and VCR.
The victim told sheriff’s deputies he left his home in the 1600 block of West Ponderosa Lane at 11:30 p.m. and returned about midnight to find the front door of his residence propped open.
Burglar scared off?
A window in the rear of the Dakotah Direct building at 4300 S. Geiger Blvd. was broken over the weekend. Whoever apparently tried to break into the telemarketing company wasn’t able to gain entrance, said Sheriff’s Department spokesman Dave Reagan.
“Something may have scared him off,” Reagan said.
Tools stolen from cemetery shed
Someone broke into a tool shed at Spokane Memorial Gardens, a cemetery beside the Cheney-Spokane Road, between 4 p.m last Wednesday and 7 p.m. last Thursday. The burglar took several tools.
Boy calls in fire report
An alert boy may have saved the South Hill home he lives in from extensive fire damage Tuesday.
The Spokane Fire Department responded to a report of a house fire at 711 S. Cedar at 5:30 p.m. after the boy called 911, fire officials said.
Before making the call for help, the boy closed the bedroom door on the second floor, where the fire started, and kept it from spreading, said Battalion Chief Skip Powell. He said 17 firefighters arrived at the house and limited damage to the second floor of the home.
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