A man was arrested after charging at two Spokane police officers with a baseball bat early Saturday morning. Michael A. Bernal, 29, was arrested after Officers James Erickson and James Christensen responded to the 200 block of East Crown Avenue at 1:57 a.m. for a…
Two burglary suspects were arrested early today after a watchful resident grew suspicious of two men who parked a car in her neighborhood. Brian Keith Belton, 35, and Tracy K. Whiting, 44, were detained near West Marc Drive and North Pinecrest Drive in north Spokane…
The inmate suspected of killing a corrections officer in Western Washington is a sex offender serving life in prison for the abduction and rape of a Spokane-area real estate agent in 1995. Byron Scherf, 52, who has a long history of violent sexual assault, is…
Two sex offenders considered likely to reoffend have registered as transients in Spokane County, the Sheriff's Office announced today. , Russell Allen Clinger, 45, (right) was released from prison in 2006 after being convicted of first-degree child molestation in 2000. His victim was a 7-year-old…
A 23-year-old Spokane man accused of a year-old rape underwent sex offender treatment as a teenager. Louis Victor Kuster underwent treatment after he was accused of sexually harassing and inappropriately touching four girls while a middle school student in Stevens County. He pleaded guilty to…
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