Woman Zapped With Stun Gun

A North Side woman was zapped with a stun gun last week after she stopped to help a car whose driver appeared to be struggling.

She stopped at the corner of Maple and Dalke when a man driving a battered green 1973 Lincoln Continental behind her flashed his headlights and honked his horn, according to police.

A passenger in the Lincoln jumped out and jolted her left arm several times with a stun gun. Witnesses at the scene verified her story, police said.

The alleged attacker was described as a white male, about 18 years old, 5-feet-9-inches tall and 180 pounds with stringy long hair.

The woman, whose identity police did not release, honked her horn and screamed and the man bolted back to the Lincoln.

Police are trying to track the owner of the Lincoln, whose license number was recorded at the scene.

Man stabbed at party

A North Side woman was arrested for assault following a fight at a party that left a 42-year-old man hospitalized with knife wounds.

Tina Marie Richards, 23, was arrested for assaulting the man with a knife.

According to police, Richards’ husband was fighting with a man at 1712 N. Ash.

Richards got involved and assaulted the other man with a knife, other party-goers told police.

It was not known how the fight started.

Beer disappears

A beer bandit wanted for a robbery that took place outside a North Side 7-Eleven store was accompanied by a wheelchair-bound woman, police say.

A 35-year-old man told police he was returning from the North Maple convenience store at about 1 a.m. last Thursday when a man knocked him down from behind.

The victim told police the bandit kicked the him and took a half-case of beer he’d bought. The bandit and a woman in a wheelchair fled toward the West Central neighborhood.

Police didn’t find the pair after scanning the area.

Van stolen by young boy

A 14-year-old boy was arrested on burglary and car theft charges last week when he stopped the stolen van he was driving on the side of the road.

A Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy stopped to see if the driver needed help and slapped the youth with two felony charges: residential burglary and auto theft.

The deputy first learned the driver was underage, then, when asking for the car’s ownership papers, discovered it had been stolen from a home in Colbert.

The boy was booked into the Spokane County juvenile detention center.

, DataTimes