Teens to be arraigned in attack

Two Rogers High School girls will be arraigned today on charges they robbed a 67-year-old sex offender who was severely beaten during the crime.

Jessica M. Jones, 15, and Amber R. Tooley, 14, were charged this week with first-degree robbery in the Dec. 20 attack on Donald Earl Evans – who was convicted in 2005 of taking a 12-year-girl as his live-in sex partner for three years.

Jones and Tooley have been in the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center since their arrest Feb. 1.

Their co-defendant, Richard L. Losey, 20, was charged Wednesday in Superior Court with first-degree burglary and first-degree robbery with a deadly weapon.

Losey remained in the county jail, where authorities say a couple of baggies of methamphetamine and crack cocaine fell out of one of his socks while he was being booked Feb. 2. No drug charge had been filed as of Wednesday.

According to court documents, Spokane police detectives found Jones with a cell phone number she gave Evans before she allegedly knocked him down with a kick while he was escorting her and Tooley out of his home at 6117 N. Cambridge Drive.

Evans told police he had refused the girls’ offer of sex for money. He said a young man, whom detectives later identified as Losey, entered his home after Jones kicked him and joined the girls in beating him, blindfolding him and binding him with duct tape.

Detective Chet Gilmore said in a court affidavit that all three suspects confessed. He said Tooley admitted she blindfolded Evans, and Jones and Losey said they went to Evans’ home with the intention of robbing him.

According to Gilmore, Losey told detectives he hit Evans in the head with a piece of copper pipe while binding his hands and mouth with duct tape. Losey said he and his co-defendants had planned to steal marijuana they expected to find in the basement of Losey’s home

Gilmore’s affidavit notes that Evans’ roommate, Ralph Davis, told detectives he met Jones and two of her friends several days before Evans was robbed. Davis wasn’t at home when Evans was attacked.

Jones was charged in December 2005 with knocking her mother down, kicking her and stealing her glasses, but a prosecutor agreed to dismiss the charges when Jones pleaded guilty to possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia.

Tooley pleaded guilty in October 2005 to third-degree malicious mischief in a burglary case.

Court records show no Spokane County felony convictions for Losey.