In brief: Geiger inmate reported missing

A Geiger Corrections Facility inmate went missing Wednesday after working cleanup in downtown Spokane.

Lauri A. Piper, 46, was assigned to a work crew downtown when she was reported missing at about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a Geiger news release.

“The people who were down there are not what you would call dangerous,” spokeswoman Martha Lou Wheatley-Billeter said.

Piper was booked on July 13 for DUI, hit-and-run and first-degree driving with a suspended license, Wheatley-Billeter said.

Piper is 5-foot-5, has short brown hair and blue eyes, and was last seen in a navy-blue polo shirt, white T-shirt and black shorts. She was wearing a black baseball cap with “Downtown Spokane” written on the front, the release states.

Anyone who comes in contact with Piper is urged to call 911.

Geiger had an inmate go missing earlier this summer, but that inmate was quickly found, Wheatley-Billeter said.

Police in standoff with wanted man

Spokane police SWAT officers were in a standoff late Wednesday with a man who is wanted on several arrest warrants and was believed to be inside a house in the 6100 block of Lincoln Street.

Officers arrived at the home about 9:30 p.m. to serve the warrants, and two people left the house.

Neither of them was the man police were looking for.

He is believed to be armed, and neighbors were asked to remain inside their homes.

“We’re just taking all the precautions necessary to keep the neighbors safe and all the people involved,” said Officer Teresa Fuller, a department spokesman.

She declined to release the man’s name or the nature of his alleged crimes.

North Idaho

Idaho appealing mother’s parole

A Kootenai County judge ruled that the time a Hayden woman spent on probation for drug charges makes her eligible for parole, but the Idaho attorney general’s office is appealing 1st District Judge John T. Mitchell’s ruling.

At issue is whether Mitchell had the legal authority to credit the 1 ½ years Kendra Goodrick spent on probation toward her prison sentence.

Goodrick, who was convicted of possessing meth with the intent to deliver, was placed on probation by Mitchell in January 2006. Prosecutors successfully appealed Mitchell’s decision granting Goodrick probation, saying he didn’t make that ruling in time.

The Idaho Court of Appeals ordered Goodrick, who had married and given birth to a son, to return to prison.

Goodrick was taken into custody following a July hearing during which Mitchell considered her request for credit for the time she was on probation. The next day, Mitchell granted that motion.

The Idaho attorney general’s office on Aug. 17 filed notice that it is appealing Mitchell’s ruling.

Second crash victim identified

Idaho State Police have identified the passenger in an Aug. 11 fatal crash on Highway 41 and Seasons Road as 33-year-old Roberto Salazar-Garcia, of Mexico.

The 28-year-old driver, Francisco Michel-Chapula of Las Vegas, was also killed.

Michel-Chapula was northbound on Highway 41 in a 1997 Chrysler Sebring when he lost control at a curve near Seasons Road, according to ISP. The vehicle went off the road and rolled.