Parents can make free ID kits for children

Parents can get help putting together important identification kits for their children, and anyone can learn more about neighborhood policing programs at the CenterPlace community center Wednesday.

Safety officers and volunteers working with SCOPE, Neighborhood Watch and Operation Family ID will be available from 6 to 8 p.m. in CenterPlace, 2426 N. Discovery Place, Room 212.

As a free service, volunteers will take a digital picture of a child and record other important identification information that is put it on a disk for parents to keep. If a child should disappear, parents can give the disk to police, who can provide the picture to searchers and the media to help find the child.

Volunteers also will be on hand to provide other safety information and details on getting involved in SCOPE and Neighborhood Watch.

Pizza-craving teens arrested

Teenagers naturally eat a lot, but police say two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old took it too far on Wednesday.

Employees at Redeemer Lutheran Church on Schafer Road called police about 9:20 a.m. Wednesday after spotting the teens inside the church, one with a box of cold pizza in his hands, according to a release from Spokane Valley Police spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.

One suspect dropped the leftovers, and all three ran off into a tree-covered area east of the church, Reagan said. Several officers searched the area, found the suspects and booked them into juvenile detention on felony counts of second-degree burglary, Reagan said.

Cash, checks taken from business

A cash box at Rainwater Insurance, 9213 E. Mission Ave., was reported stolen Wednesday, according to police reports.

Some time between 6 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday someone broke a window and grabbed a box containing cash, checks and money orders, according to a release from Spokane Valley Police spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.

Anyone with information on the break-in is asked to call police at 242-TIPS.

Man with multiple warrants arrested

Police arrested a man Wednesday night on four arrest warrants, a civil bench warrant and a new felony count of methamphetamine possession after staking out his car.

A release from the Spokane Valley Police Department said two officers “developed information” that Richard Jack Smith, 29, of 125 S. Greene St., might be driving a blue two-door car and that he might have parked it at a house near Park Road and Nora Avenue.

That information turned out to be correct, and the officers stopped him about 9:20 p.m. after he drove away from the residence, Sgt. Dave Reagan said in the release.

Smith was arrested on the outstanding warrants, and Reagan said officers also found a bag of meth between his seat and the car door.

Suspect in stabbing sought

Police are asking for help finding a Spokane Valley resident they say stabbed a man in the back after he confronted the suspect about a missing necklace two months ago.

Detectives are looking for Juan Escobedo-Olvera, 33. He is 5-foot-10-inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. His last known address was 1723 N. Union Road.

On Aug. 29 police were called to Valley Hospital and Medical Center after a patient arrived with a knife sticking out of his shoulder. They have since received a second-degree assault arrest warrant against Escobedo-Olvera.

Those with information on where he might be are asked to call the Secret Witness tip line at 327-5111. Cash rewards are offered for information that solves crimes in Spokane County, and callers do not have to identify themselves to be eligible for it.