In brief: Ex-chief Kirkpatrick takes post with FBI

Former Spokane police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick will leave her post as chief deputy with the King County Sheriff’s Office for an instructor job with the FBI, officials said Friday.

Kirkpatrick will join the Law Enforcement Executive Development Association after stepping down Monday, King County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. DB Gates said. The organization instructs law enforcement agencies in the “science and art of police leadership and management,” according to its website.

Kirkpatrick served as Spokane’s police chief from September 2006 through January 2012, inheriting the department in the midst of several controversies.

“Although I knew I was inheriting a storm, I didn’t know it would continue to blow for five years,” Kirkpatrick told The Spokesman-Review on her final day in office.

King County Sheriff John Urquhart hired Kirkpatrick as his chief deputy in November 2012.

Suspect in attack trying to find victim, court told

A man is accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend so badly that she suffered facial fractures and a brain hemorrhage. Now in jail, he is still trying to track the woman, according to a victim’s advocate.

The victim told police that she was in a north Spokane restaurant with a friend on June 18 when Grady P. Casey, 35, came in and got into an argument with her even though she had a restraining order against him. The argument moved outside, where Casey allegedly pulled the windshield wipers off her vehicle as she dialed 911, according to court documents. The victim hid inside a restaurant on North Division Street across from Clark Park.

After waiting for police for about 30 minutes, the victim decided to return to her car. She told police that when she exited the restaurant, Casey punched her, threw her to the ground and slammed her head into the pavement, court documents say. Casey allegedly took her purse and ran away.

Casey is facing charges of robbery, domestic violence assault, theft and felony violation of a no-contact order. He was ordered held on $100,000 bond Friday.

A victim’s advocate addressed the court Friday and said Casey has been making multiple phone calls from the Spokane County Jail, trying to find out the location of the victim. She has to use a walker because of her injuries, the advocate said.