Customer takes dissatisfaction out on sign

A KFC customer dissatisfied with his food took it out on the drive-through sign Tuesday, police said, causing hundreds of dollars worth of damage.

About 6:30 p.m. a man who had ordered at the drive-up window came in the store and said someone had messed with his food, Spokane Valley Police spokesman Dave Reagan said in a release.

The man received a refund but knocked over a garbage can as he left the store and kicked in both sides of a drive-through sign, which the manager estimated would cost more than $600 to replace, Reagan said.

A witness noted the suspect’s license-plate number and officers traced it to 28-year-old John R. Cravens who was living at a motel on the 12800 block of E. Sprague Ave., according to the release.

Cravens was arrested and booked into jail on a felony count of second-degree malicious mischief, Reagan said.

Witness alerts police to auto lot prowler

A witness who called 911 helped police nab a prowler at a business on Trent Avenue Tuesday night, according to a release from Reagan.

Someone called the police after seeing a man trying to enter a recreational vehicle and looking inside cars parked in the back at Martin’s Auto Service at 9125 E. Trent Ave., Reagan said.

When an officer arrived, he saw Andrew R. Houston, 28, of Airway Heights relieving himself, Reagan said.

The business owner said he did not know the man or give him permission to be there, and police said Houston had entered by removing boards from a fence.

Houston was booked into county jail on counts of second-degree burglary, malicious mischief and giving false information to police because he originally told the arresting officer a false name and date of birth, Reagan said.