In brief: Suspect free on bail, must avoid girlfriend
A Stevens County man charged with soliciting an assassin to attack his pregnant former girlfriend was released from jail last week – on condition that he have no contact with his current girlfriend.
Suncrest resident Charles David Young, 18, is charged with soliciting first-degree assault under aggravated circumstances and soliciting first-degree manslaughter. Young allegedly paid $1,620 to an undercover detective posing as a hit man on Oct. 11 to beat his ex-girlfriend and kill their then-unborn child.
Stevens County Superior Court Judge Al Nielson agreed Wednesday to reduce Young’s $500,000 bail and release him when one of Young’s aunts, Loretta E. Hall, of Deer Park, offered to put up $100,000 in cash.
Among the conditions Nielson imposed was an order that Young can’t contact – directly or indirectly – his current girlfriend, a 19-year-old woman, as well as the 17-year-old alleged victim and her family. Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Troberg listed Young’s current girlfriend as a potential witness against him.
– John Craig
Spokane
Alleged drug house raided a third time
Spokane police raided an alleged drug house Tuesday night for the third time in six months, arresting 15 of 17 people they found inside.
One of those arrested in the 7 p.m. raid at 515 E. Montgomery Ave. was the tenant, 56-year-old John Snyder, who was booked into jail on suspicion of running a drug house.
The other suspects were booked on suspicion of drug possession, drug-possession warrants and alleged probation violations.
“The neighbors are fed up,” Officer William Hager said. “We keep on hitting it, and each time the tenant is there. He was warned after the second time that, if we had to come back, he would be arrested for unlawful use of the house.”
Hager said detectives from the department’s Special Investigative Unit plan to seek condemnation of the home, which is owned by Snyder’s mother.
Two previous raids, also instigated by neighborhood complaints and resulting in arrests, were in August and November last year.
– John Craig
Public help sought in solving shooting
Spokane police are seeking the public’s help after a New Year’s Day shooting injured two people.
The 34-year-old man and 20-year-old woman were sitting in a parked car on the south side of East Rowan Avenue just east of Helena Street about 3 a.m. Monday when someone opened fire, police said. The man was shot in his left shoulder. The woman was shot in the back, which injured her spine, and in the buttocks.
Both remained hospitalized Tuesday and were in stable condition, said police spokesman Cpl. Tom Lee.
Anyone with information is asked to call (509) 242-8477.
– Jody Lawrence-Turner