One of the great stories about the late Coeur d’Alene attorney Scott Reed occurred in December 2010 when he was mistaken for a bank robber by Coeur d’Alene police. Not only did Scott take the case of mistaken identity in stride, but he wrote a letter to Sgt. Christie Wood commending the officers who handcuffed him:
Coeur d’Alene lawyer Scott Reed was handcuffed in his office last month after police mistook him for a possible
bank robber. This case of mistaken identity prompted Reed to commend the department’s handling of the situation. It also prompted his son, who was President Clinton’s domestic policy adviser, to write about it in a column for the online magazine Slate. Five police officers, prompted by a burglar alarm, approached Reed - two with their guns drawn - about 7 a.m. Dec. 23 at the Bank of America building downtown. Reed’s office is on the second floor of the Front Avenue building, where he can see, as his son wrote “the gems of a career well spent—from the shores of Lake Coeur d’Alene, which he has gone to court dozens of times to protect, to the pines of Tubbs Hill, a 120-acre public park he fought a half-century-long battle to preserve.”
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