CoiNuts Owner Gets 6 Months

A former Coeur d’Alene coin shop owner was sentenced to six months in jail this morning for six counts of petty theft for failing to fulfill customers’ gold and silver orders. Kevin E. Mitchell, 49, had been indicted on felony charges of grand theft by false promise for allegedly scheming to defraud customers between 2009 and 2012. He agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charges and avoid a trial. First District Judge Fred Gibler also sentenced Mitchell to four months of supervised probation and ordered him to pay the victims what they are owed. Mitchell’s stepdaughter, Sarah M. Mitchell, is due to be sentenced this afternoon on similar charges. She also was involved in the operation of the former CoiNuts store in a strip mall off U.S. Highway 95/ Scott Maben , SR. More here.