Hungry woman tries to take cart full of food

A woman who said she was starving was arrested last week when she tried to steal $272 in groceries.

Nanette J. Zyskowski, 12114 E. Cataldo Ave., was at the East Montgomery Yoke’s Grocery when she tried to wheel a grocery cart full of food out to her car, said Spokane Valley Police spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.

A security guard watched Zyskowski take the items and detained her.

Zyskowski, 31, said she and her ex-boyfriend had been fighting and that he had taken all of her money. She was driven to the Spokane County Jail and booked on charges of second-degree theft.

Copper still being stolen

Copper thefts continued last week, when somebody scaled a fence at Aapex Construction and stole $1,200 of copper tubing.

Six boxes of tubing were stolen between Monday evening and Wednesday morning, said Spokane Valley Police spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.

Scrap metal prices are at an all time high, and law enforcement agencies are seeing many thefts of available material, Reagan said. Business owners should take precautions to protect the scrap metal, he said.

Outstanding warrant arrests

An officer with an eagle eye spotted a woman he knew to have an outstanding felony warrant, then arrested her Monday morning.

Lachelle D. Weddle, 35 of Nine Mile Falls, was driving her 1990 Nissan in the area of Eighth Avenue and Carnahan Road at about 11:30 a.m. when an officer noticed her, said Spokane Valley Police spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan. He pulled her over and arrested her on an outstanding stolen property warrant.

In a later search of her car, the office found a driver’s license, social security card and six credit cards all belonging to someone else, Reagan said. The officer called the woman who owned the cards, and she said they’d been stolen earlier Sunday.

Weddle was booked into the Spokane County Jail on the warrant and on a new count of stolen property.

•Another officer recognized a 20-year-old Spokane Valley woman who had an outstanding warrant for driving while her license was suspended.

Delaney L. Schell, 205 S. Park Road, was driving into her trailer park Monday afternoon, and a Spokane Valley Police officer noticed her and remembered she had an outstanding warrant, said spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.

The officer arrested the woman on the warrant, and later found a baggie of methamphetamine in her purse.

Schell was booked into the Spokane County Jail on a felony count of methamphetamine possession.