Fourth person in homicide case arrested
A fourth person was arrested in connection with last week’s double homicide on Dobson Pass.
Wayne Barrett, 34, has been charged with two counts of accessory to murder, officials said Friday.
Three other suspects have already been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of Neil Howard, 20, and Cynthia Bewick, 18, who were found a week ago at the top of Dobson Pass, north of Wallace, by a man picking huckleberries.
On Wednesday, Jon Allen Kienholz Jr. was arrested on two counts of first-degree murder, officials said. Corey Reid, 20, was arrested in Boise on a probation violation. He is now in the Shoshone County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder/aiding and abetting.
Reid drove the victims’ car to Boise after the crime, and police found a .22-caliber gun in the car, said Shoshone County Sheriff Chuck Reynalds.
Hiram Wilson, 17, is being held in Shoshone County Jail in connection with the homicides. He will be charged as an adult. The teenager is the son of Rocky Wilson, chief of Pinehurst Police Department.
Bewick would have been a senior at Kellogg High School, officials said. She was engaged to Howard and the couple had a 9-month-old child, Richard Eugene Bewick-Howard, who is now staying with a family member.
Pullman
Man accused of rape arrested in Alaska
A man who allegedly raped a woman in Pullman last year was arrested Aug. 7 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Fousseyni Kone allegedly grabbed and raped a 30-year-old Tri-Cities woman early one Sunday morning in October 2007, right after the Washington State University homecoming, according to the Pullman Police Department. The woman was walking back to a friend’s house in Pullman around 1:30 a.m. when Kone allegedly approached her and offered to walk her back to the area. Instead, he said he needed something from an apartment and asked her to go with him. He then raped her but the woman managed to escape, according to the Police Department.
Kone was arrested on the warrant issued out of Whitman County for second-degree rape. Extradition to Whitman County for the charge is pending.
TACOMA
Murder suspect pleads innocent
An innocent plea has been entered for a Tacoma man charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing of his wife.
Jay Nathaniel Poe, 27, said nothing Thursday during a brief appearance in Pierce County Superior Court. Judge Bryan E. Chushcoff set bail at $1 million.
The body of Eva Poe, 44, was found in a bag two hours after he was rescued from a house fire on Aug. 8.
Prosecutors say he stabbed his wife as they fought over her behavior less than eight months into their marriage. According to court documents, he cleaned up the house, tried to burn her body in the fireplace and then put her remains into a large bag in a closet.
The heat of the fire set the attic ablaze.
RICHLAND
Pipe cause of drop in radioactive waste
A leak has been ruled out as the cause for a drop in the level of highly radioactive waste in a tank at the Hanford nuclear reservation.
Instead, Energy Department officials and contractors say, variations in the level of the liquid apparently are linked to the installation of a vertical pipe in Tank SX-104. The pipe was added in December to help measure waste levels in the huge tank.
KETCHUM, Idaho
Sockeye salmon make big return
State fisheries biologists say more sockeye salmon have returned to the Sawtooth Valley this year than any season since 1985.
So far, officials say 263 sockeye salmon have arrived at the Sawtooth Fish Hatchery along the upper Salmon River north of Ketchum.
That total surpasses the 2000 return when 257 of the famous red fish made their way back to the valley.
The totals have fluctuated dramatically in recent years. Considering how many sockeye have made it past downstream dams, state biologists say the hatchery could see between 400 and 700 fish by the end of the season.
Biologists cheer the totals considering runs in recent years were fewer than a dozen fish.
From staff and wire reports