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Sirens & Gavels archive for Dec. 8, 2010

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 2010


Snow berm helps stop fleeing fugitive

A snow berm helped stop a Montana fugitive fleeing police in Spokane Valley Tuesday night, officials said today. Shannon David McCoy, 35, refused to stop his Ford Escort when police spotted him outside the Linger Longer Apartments in the 1800 block of North Hutchinson about…

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Man in 100 mph chase gets 100 months

A 23-year-old Spokane man once considered one of the city's top 10 repeat offenders was sentenced this morning to eight years in prison. Allen S. Easley was in and out of jail several times last spring for property crimes and a freeway chase with police…

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Idaho man sentenced in trooper assault

(AP) — A northcentral Idaho man has been sentenced to just six months behind bars — the maximum — for an assault on a state trooper that resulted in the trooper shooting another man who was attacking him.Ricardo Daniel Rodriguez was sentenced Monday in U.S.…

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Cops: Thief struck after finding corpse

Police say a Spokane man had an unusual reaction to his grandfather’s death: grand theft. Anthony S. Jungen, 19, was ordered held Tuesday at the Spokane County Jail in lieu of $5,000 bail on theft allegations that border on the macabre. Police say Jungen found…

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Gambling man owes mother $137,000

A Spokane man was ordered this week to repay his mother nearly $140,000 after bilking her out of the cash to fund his gambling addiction.Mark B. English, 52, also was ordered to serve 90 days in jail, three times as long as a plea agreement…

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Police: Thief targeted retirement homes

A 23-year-old Spokane man is suspected of a string of burglaries at South Hill retirement homes.Police say they found more than 1,000 pieces of jewelry in a car owned by Pavel V. Altukhov, who investigators believe has been stealing from elderly retirement home residents since…

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Arrest made in 1982 Kennewick killing

LEWISTON — A DNA match has led to the arrest of a 56-year-old Lewiston man in the 1982 strangulation death of his girlfriend in Kennewick, Wash., authorities say.Jack L. Welch was briefly booked into the Nez Perce County jail on Tuesday on a first-degree murder…

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