Police arrest two in stabbing case
Spokane Police arrested two people and are still looking for a third suspect in connection with a stabbing early Monday morning at a North Spokane restaurant.
Police are looking for 25-year-old Shawn Cranford for his role in the stabbing at the 3 Dishes Restaurant, 3525 N. Division St., said Dick Cottam, police spokesman.
Officers responded to the business about 1:15 a.m., after reports that a man’s throat had been slashed by another man wielding a piece of broken glass.
The suspects fled the scene in a silver car as officers arrived, and a brief chase followed, Cottam said.
When the vehicle stopped near North Lidgerwood Street, two men jumped from the car, but the driver continued speeding and running stop signs before crashing into two parked cars in the 800 block of East Lacrosse Avenue.
The driver, 18-year-old Lanisha M. Tomeo, was arrested and booked into jail for attempting to elude, and possession of drugs with intent to deliver, Cottam said. She was being held on $50,000 bond.
Police later found one of the two men who ran from the car, Ronald L. Trammel, 23. He was booked into jail on first-degree assault. Cranford is still at large, Cottam said.
The car involved in the chase had apparently been stolen from a dealer in Billings, Cottam said.
The victim was taken to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery and was in satisfactory condition Monday night, Cottam said.
The stabbing is the latest in a series of violent assaults at the business, police said.
A 56-year-old man was nearly beat to death June 21 inside the restaurant while trying to protect his daughter-in-law from an assault.
Arrested for first-degree assault in that case was Samson Lawrence Lane, 20. Lane had apparently come to the restaurant with his ex-girlfriend, and while there “struck her several times,” court records said. Anthony M. Resendez attempted to come to the girl’s defense and Lane assaulted him by kicking him in the face “with both of his feet,” court records state.
“There’s something just about every weekend at this place; shootings, stabbings, beatings, fights,” Cottam said. “They’ve had constant problems, and detectives have met with the management on several occasions, and they keep promising they’ll fix things.”
Cottam said the department has now asked the Washington State Liquor Control Board to pull the business’s liquor license in response to the rash of violent crimes.
The liquor board could not be reached for comment Monday.