Official: Co-defendant didn’t cooperate

A Spokane man who was a co-defendant in a North Idaho drug case did not cooperate with authorities, his public defender said Tuesday.

Calvin L. Rogers, 30, pleaded guilty to misprision of a felony and did not testify against co-defendant Robert Leon Mertens, a Coeur d’Alene gold and coin dealer.

At a hearing last month where Mertens was sentenced to 37 years in prison, federal prosecutors said other co-defendants had cooperated with investigations and entered guilty pleas in exchange for lighter sentences.

“He was not a government witness, nor did he cooperate,” said Assistant Federal Defender Steve Hormel, who represented Rogers.

Rogers pleaded guilty on Sept. 9, 2003, in the District of Idaho to concealing a felony, and was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2003, by U.S. District Court Judge Edward Lodge. The Idaho judge gave Rogers credit for time in jail he had already served.

As a result of that felony, Rogers was returned to U.S. District Court in Spokane where he was found guilty of violating conditions of his supervised release from an earlier drug-related conviction.

Judge Frem Nielsen ordered Rogers to serve a year and a day in jail for violating his supervised release. Rogers completed that term and was released in December 2003.

Teacher arrested over alleged groping of girl

A teacher who lives near Moses Lake has been arrested and charged with groping a girl in Spokane.

Robert T. Macintosh, 38, was arrested Friday and charged with indecent liberties in the complex case that started in Spokane but was investigated in Bellingham and ended in Moses Lake, Spokane Police Sgt. Brad Arleth said.

The case began in the summer of 2003 when Macintosh was in Spokane for either a basketball camp or tournament with the team he was coaching from a school in Bellingham, Arleth said. Macintosh assaulted the 16-year-old girl in a Spokane hotel while two other girls were in the room, Arleth said.

News of the allegation came to light after other girls began talking about it and Whatcom County authorities began investigating the case. Macintosh left that school in Bellingham after the 2003-04 school year and took a job recently at a school in the Grant County town of Warden, Arleth said

Since the alleged crime took place in Spokane, Whatcom County Sheriff’s detectives sent over their investigation in November and a Spokane County deputy prosecutor filed an arrest warrant for Macintosh on Dec. 22, Arleth said. Macintosh was arrested Friday in Moses Lake.

McMorris officially names district director

Rep. Cathy McMorris named her district director and announced an open house today at her Spokane office.

David Condon, a Spokane native and former Army officer, will oversee McMorris’ offices in Spokane, Walla Walla and Colville, the congresswoman said in a news release. Condon, who served as campaign manager for Todd Mielke’s successful county commission campaign, also worked as business manager for Condon & Condon PLLC.

“Our goal is to reach out to people in the district and provide excellent customer service to all constituents,” Condon said in the release.

McMorris will appear today from noon to 1 p.m. and again from 4 to 6 p.m. at her Spokane office in the Peyton Building, 10 N. Post St., Suite 625, for an open house. She also will spend the week meeting with local community leaders discussing the regional economy, health care and national security.

Mona Locke expected to join staff at KIRO-TV

Olympia At least one member of the Locke family has a job lined up.

Outgoing Gov. Gary Locke will take a little time off before beginning a job search, said spokeswoman Sharon Wallace. But his wife, Mona Lee Locke, has accepted a job in her old field of television journalism, for KIRO-TV, the Seattle CBS affiliate.

Mona Lee was a television reporter at KING-TV, the Seattle NBC affiliate, when she met and married her husband. She has not worked outside the governor’s mansion during Locke’s two terms, but has headed several foundations and worked on early-childhood education, in addition to raising their three children.

Mona Lee Locke will join KIRO in April, working part time on documentaries, special assignment and newsmaker interviews.

“We are excited for someone of Mona’s broad background and history to join the KIRO 7 team,” said John Woodin, station vice president and general manager. “She has been an unbelievable asset to the state in her role as first lady and was a terrific journalist prior to that.

“We are eager to add her talents and community enthusiasm to our team.”

Before her marriage, she was a documentary producer at KCTS and KING. Before that, she was a reporter for television stations in Green Bay, Wis., and Topeka, Kan. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and has a master’s degree from Northwestern University.

Fliers urging boycott being forwarded to FBI

Port Angeles, Wash. Fliers calling for a boycott of Elwha Fish Co., citing the tribal owners’ role in the state decision to abandon a major project here, are being forwarded to the FBI.

The Port Angeles Community Multicultural Task Force condemned the fliers at a Monday meeting and forwarded them to federal investigators. FBI officials did not immediately return a Tuesday call for comment.

The project – a 22.5-acre construction site where replacement sections for the Hood Canal Bridge were to be built – was suspended and then scrapped by the state Transportation Department after excavation unearthed the remains of hundreds of Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members and thousands of artifacts.

The construction project had been expected to create 100 high-paying jobs and generate millions of dollars for the local economy.

In addition to the fliers, Lower Elwha Chairwoman Frances Charles has received angry anonymous telephone calls blaming the tribe for loss of the project, said Dennis Sullivan, tribe vice chairman.