In brief: Two lead deputy on high-speed chase

Two people in a stolen car led a sheriff’s deputy on a high-speed chase in Spokane Valley on Thursday, according to court documents.

Jordy Scott DeBoer, 20, and Nicole Dawn Singer, 23, were in a green Honda Accord when Deputy Brian Hirzel tried to stop them near North Pines Road and East Valleyway Avenue around 6 p.m.

The driver, identified by police as DeBoer, fled at speeds of about 70 mph in the 35 mph zone, driving through residential areas, blowing through stop signs and red lights, straddling lanes and cutting through grocery store parking lots.

DeBoer nearly struck several vehicles, deputies said. Hirzel ended the chase because of public safety concerns; a Washington State Patrol trooper later located the suspects.

“Singer admitted to Deputy Hirzel she told DeBoer to ‘Go, baby, go’ when he attempted to stop them,” court documents said.

The Honda had been stolen early that morning or late the night before from a home in the 1300 block of North McDonald Road.

TSA pays Rasmussen over fall at airport

The Transportation Security Administration has paid Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen $225,000 for medical bills resulting from a fall in 2008 during an airport screening.

Rasmussen, who walked with a cane following childhood polio, filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in 2010 following an incident on April 4, 2008, at Spokane International Airport. As he was being screened, Rasmussen alleged that he was told to sit, but he didn’t know a chair had been pulled away. As a result, he fell, sustaining back and hip injuries.

Rasmussen said government attorneys disputed the hip injuries but agreed the fall caused back injuries, which required surgery. Since the fall, Rasmussen often relies on a wheelchair for mobility, he said.

The case went to mediation, and an agreement was reached in May, but an order for negotiated dismissal wasn’t entered until this week.

Driver arrested after head-on crash

A 21-year-old Spokane man was arrested after crashing his truck head-on into a semitruck Thursday and injuring his passenger.

Joseph A. Hussey’s blood-alcohol level registered 0.224 before he was jailed on a felony vehicular assault charge for the crash in the 3900 block of East Broadway Avenue, the Spokane Police Department said. The legal limit for driving is 0.08.

Police said he smelled of intoxicants and told them he was going home to Spokane Valley from the Satellite bar downtown.

Hussey also slurred his speech and failed field sobriety tests, police said.

Man accused of trying to lure boy

Police say a man tried to lure a 12-year-old boy into a motor home in the parking lot of a north Spokane store on Thursday.

John L. Seyler, 27, was ordered to stay in jail on $25,000 bail after appearing in Spokane County Superior Court on Friday on a felony charge of child luring.

The boy ran into the Fred Meyer at 525 E. Francis Ave. about 1:40 p.m. and told an employee a man in a motor home had yelled “We’re going to the park, get in the car,” police said in court documents filed Friday.

The boy said he stopped briefly and heard others in the motor home yell, “Tell him we have … candy; you should have told him we have candy.”

He said the man opened the driver’s side door and started to get out, so he ran as fast as he could into the store.

Officers came to the motor home and identified Seyler as the suspect.