In brief: Coolin man missing, truck abandoned
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a 48-year-old Coolin, Idaho, man whose truck was found abandoned. Authorities also are looking for two people considered persons of interest in his disappearance.
The Sheriff’s Office began looking for the missing Leslie Carlton Breaw on Monday. Sheriff’s deputies and Bonner County Search and Rescue looked for Breaw in the area where his truck was found. His home in Coolin also was searched, the Sheriff’s Office said.
Two associates of Breaw, Keith Allan Brown and Tyrah Brea Brown, have been identified as persons who might have information about Breaw’s disappearance, the Sheriff’s Office said. The pair may be headed to the Bozeman area in a midsized white vehicle, authorities said Friday.
Breaw is 5 feet 5 inches tall and 155 pounds with brown eyes, black hair and possibly a mustache.
Keith Brown, 47, is 5 feet 10 inches tall and 195 pounds with blue eyes and brown/grey hair. Tyrah Brown, 25, is 5 feet 5 inches tall and 120 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair.
Anyone who has seen any of the three is asked to contact Bonner County Dispatch at (208) 265-5525.
Coeur d’Alene
Decisions near on zone changes
The Kootenai County commission likely will make a decision March 1 on whether to approve a zone change that would allow a local construction company to build 700 homes on the Rathdrum Prairie.
More than 100 people attended Thursday’s nearly four-hour public hearing on Copper Basin Construction’s proposal to change the zoning on 290 acres of farmland to allow five homes per acre. The property is along state Highway 53, between Pleasant View and McGuire Road.
The proposal is one of the first projects in the area aimed at building homes that lower-income workers, such as teachers and laborers, could afford. The company hopes to offer homes in the $130,000 to $200,000 range.
Some neighbors and environmental groups oppose such a dense project in a rural area. They also question putting sewer lagoons with treated effluent over the aquifer.
The commission also heard testimony on Viking Construction’s request for Lake Stone Estates near Bayview, which would have 29 homes on about 9 acres. Commissioners will make a decision on the request Thursday.
Neighbors oppose the project because Bayview Creek flows through the property, and they fear the development would harm the stream and potentially cause flooding.
Both deliberation meetings are at 10 a.m. at the Kootenai County Administration Building, 451 Government Way. For more information, call (208) 446-1070.Spokane
Officers cleared of racism charges
A U.S. District Court jury in Spokane has cleared three Pullman police officers accused of racism.
The allegations of civil rights violations stemmed from a call to break up a fight at Pullman’s Top of China restaurant in September 2002.
Officers Dan Hargraves, Don Heroff and Rueben Harris were accused of using excessive force, acting with deliberate indifference to injured persons and being motivated by racial bias. The officers’ pepper spray drifted to an upstairs night club, the Attic, where hundreds of people, mostly black students from Washington State University, were dancing. Three people were treated for eye and skin irritation. In all, 136 plaintiffs joined the class-action lawsuit seeking $22 million.
Thursday’s jury decision “is a vindication of the Pullman Police Department,” City Attorney Laura McAloon said Friday.Darrell Cochran, a Tacoma lawyer who represented the plaintiffs, was unavailable for comment.
Compiled from staff
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