Police seeking tips about missing man

Thu., Sept. 28, 2006

The Spokesman-Review

A Spokane man who disappeared Saturday when he went for a hike along the Spokane River remained missing Wednesday, and police appealed for information about him.

Allen C. Flake, 41, was last seen when he left his West Central-area home about 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Officers searched the riverbank and interviewed people at People’s Park on Sunday without success.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911.

Flake is 6 feet tall, weighs 190 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes.

Tipster asked to call with more information

Spokane police appealed Wednesday for more information from a person who called the Secret Witness organization at 10 p.m. Saturday about an incident in Riverfront Park.

Police declined to give any information about the incident but promised not to try to identify the tipster. They asked the caller to leave a contact number at the police tips line: (509) 242-TIPS.

Spokane County

Four charged with beating father, son

Sheriff’s deputies Wednesday arrested two Mt. Spokane High School students and two adults in connection with assaults in which a man suffered facial fractures and his 16-year-old son also was beaten.

Sgt. Dave Reagan said the father tried to intervene when 21-year-old Dominic L. Cudmore, 801 S. Lincoln Road, attacked his son in the driveway of their home in the 9100 block of East Big Meadows Road. Three bandanna-wearing suspects dragged the father about 30 feet and then punched and kicked him while he was on the ground.

Reagan didn’t name the victims or two Mt. Spokane students, ages 15 and 17, who allegedly beat the father. He said the third person who attacked the father was Michael Rosado, 29, who has a criminal history in New Jersey and was arrested at a Tyler, Wash., job site.

All three suspects in the attack on the father were booked into jail or juvenile detention on suspicion of second-degree assault and riot with a deadly weapon. One of them allegedly was armed with a large knife.

Cudmore was booked into jail on suspicion of fourth-degree assault.

Reagan said the incident was precipitated when Cudmore decided to “settle things” after he overheard part of a conversation in which the 16-year-old victim called an ex-girlfriend.

Clark Fork, Idaho

Motorcyclist dies in collision with car

A Bonners Ferry man was killed Wednesday when his motorcycle struck a car that cut in front of him about 12:40 p.m. on State Highway 200 near Clark Fork, Idaho.

Idaho State Police identified the victim as 52-year-old Daniel Krmpotich. He had been eastbound on his 1988 Yamaha when he was killed.

Officers arrested 20-year-old Clark Fork resident Oly Morris on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter. Investigators said Morris was eastbound in his 2003 Mitsubishi automobile when he turned into the oncoming lane to make a left turn.

Morris noticed Krmpotich and attempted to swerve back into his own lane when Krmpotich struck the driver’s side of Morris’ car, according to state police.

Neither Morris nor his passenger, Walter Hayes, 19, of Clark Fork, was injured.

Helena

Deputy locates girl abducted in 2004

A Washington girl abducted by her father two years ago during a bitter child-custody dispute has been found near Helena, the U.S. Marshals Service said Wednesday.

Shania Supanich had been missing from Auburn, Wash., since April 2004 when her father, Mark Supanich, did not return her to her mother after a weekend visit.

Lewis and Clark County sheriff’s deputies were checking an address northeast of Helena when they spotted Shania, 9, on Tuesday evening.

Mark Supanich, 48, appeared before Justice of the Peace Wally Jewell on Wednesday and was ordered held without bail on a federal warrant for flight to avoid prosecution. Jewell said Supanich also was named on a warrant for custodial interference.

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