Briefs: Police arrest mother after boys left alone on I-90

A Spokane Valley woman has been arrested after she left her two young boys alone along Interstate 90 in Post Falls on Tuesday morning, police say.

The boys, ages 6 and 3, were found sitting in the grass near the Beck Road interchange construction site about 9:10 a.m.

The boys told Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies that their mother – 27-year-old Shannon Marie Germanton, also known as Shannon Marie Duval – had run out of gas and gone for help. They also said their mother had walked them to the location while it was dark and raining.

Investigators learned that Germanton was given a ride by a Jacklin Seed employee to an Exxon gas station at Pleasant View Road and Riverbend Drive between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. She told the employee she had been in an argument with her boyfriend and needed to get to a phone to call for a ride.

Germanton was arrested on a local misdemeanor warrant for negligent driving at about 8:30 p.m. on the 300 block of South David Street in Spokane Valley. She was booked into Spokane County Jail.

The children were placed in foster care with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Child Protective Services.

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Man near Usk fatally shot; suspect in jail

A man was shot and killed at a home about seven miles south of Usk, Wash., on Monday.

Pend Oreille sheriff’s deputies found the victim, identified as Dana Morey, 57, dead at the home near the 7000 block of State Route 211 with gunshot wounds to the chest, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The suspect’s father called police around 2 p.m., saying his son shot another man, the release said. When deputies arrived, they found the suspect, Charles E. Langford, 62, of Newport, Wash., having seizurelike symptoms.

Langford was transported to Newport Community Hospital for treatment prior to his booking into Pend Oreille County Jail on a murder charge.

Nicole Hensley

Detectives arrest man in girlfriend’s fatal shooting

Grant County sheriff’s detectives say a Mattawa man gunned down his girlfriend because she broke up with him.

Jose Abilion Aguilar Aguilar, 35, was arrested Monday night in connection with the Oct. 16 shooting death of Carmelita Lopez Santos, of Yakima. He was booked in Grant County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and other crimes.

Santos’ body was found by a hunter in a recreation area off Road 26 Southwest. The investigation revealed Aguilar and Santos were in a romantic relationship and Aguilar was allegedly upset when Santos broke off the relationship.

Chelsea Bannach