Two arrested following stabbing
An Alaska man was stabbed Friday night outside the Torche Lounge in Coeur d’Alene, and city police later arrested two suspects at their home.
The victim, Jobe D. Lawyer, 25, was in stable condition Saturday at Kootenai Medical Center after treatment for a stab wound in his left side.
Elias Pickering, 25, and Daniel L. “Buddy” Parks, 24, were arrested at their home at 1839 N. 19th St. in Coeur d’Alene, where police said they found seven “large and unusual” bongs and 15 ordinary marijuana pipes.
Pickering, suspected of stabbing Lawyer, was booked into Kootenai County Jail on suspicion of aggravated battery and possession of drug paraphernalia. Parks was booked on suspicion of being an accessory to aggravated battery and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Sgt. Christie Wood said a woman found Lawyer standing and bleeding profusely about 9:45 p.m. near the front door of the lounge at 216 E. Coeur d’Alene Ave.
Lawyer had been asked to leave the bar when he became unruly and directed obscene gestures and comments toward employees of the bikini bar, officials said. He was uncooperative and too drunk to be interviewed by police, Wood said.
She said Torche Lounge employees and a taxi driver helped officers locate Pickering and Parks. Interviews with the suspects indicated they didn’t know Lawyer but got into an argument with him outside the bar, Wood said.
She said bouncers told police that Parks and Pickering left the bar shortly after Lawyer, and one of them retrieved a knife that had been impounded when they entered.
Crystal Mountain, Wash.
Skier killed by avalanche
A skier was killed Saturday when he was buried in an avalanche in an out-of-bounds area at the Crystal Mountain ski resort.
The avalanche occurred about 3 p.m. when the victim and a male companion were in an area that was roped off and marked as permanently closed to skiing, said Tiana Enger, marketing director for the ski resort.
The second skier was not hurt.
Names, ages, hometowns and other details about the two skiers were not immediately available.
CASPER, Wyo.
Escaped convicts found in Canada
A bad tire led to the capture of an escaped Wyoming killer and his stepson in a town about 120 miles northeast of Vancouver, B.C., authorities said.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Shannon Parazoo and Alonzo Howard Durgin without incident Friday after pulling them over outside of Merritt, B.C., said Cpl. Kyra Monson.
The fugitives walked away from the Casper Re-Entry Center’s work-release program on Feb. 9. The Marshals Service had been searching for them in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Parazoo, 43, was serving a 20- to 30-year sentence for a 1985 murder. Durgin, 28, was convicted in 1997 of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault.