Home Trashed; Teen Pair Arrested
Two teenagers were arrested Monday night for allegedly trashing a Spokane Valley home that was being prepared to be moved.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Cal Walker said he heard banging and smashing noises when he drove up to the home at the corner of Pines Road and Olive Avenue, and saw the teens inside.
The boys, 15 and 16, were booked into the Spokane County Juvenile Detention Center on charges of first-degree malicious mischief, a felony. Both told deputies they were at the house, which is being moved to a new lot, because “they were bored,” said deputy David Reagan, Sheriff’s Department spokesman.
Walker wrote in his report that he saw the teens kicking glass out of windows and smashing objects when he arrived about 6:40 p.m. Several large holes were kicked into the plaster walls, glass from the broken windows was scattered around the house, and decorative glass blocks in the entry way were broken, Reagan said.
A toilet and mirror in the bathroom also were smashed, and hardwood boards and trim was broken.
Witnesses told deputies they heard noises coming from the house for more than an hour, Reagan said.
Service station burglarized
Money was taken from a Valley service station during a burglary early Tuesday, and an employee at the chain’s North Side branch was arrested.
A passerby told deputies the driver of a small gray pickup truck with a chrome tool box broke a rear window at Lubrication Station, 12515 E. Sprague, about 12:30 a.m. The witness then saw the truck leave westbound on Sprague Avenue.
About an hour later, deputies stopped a pickup in the 7300 block of East Sprague that matched the description of the truck seen leaving the service station. The burglary witness, who was brought to the scene of the traffic stop, identified the driver as the one who broke the window, Reagan said.
The driver, Timothy Thomas Iverson, 18, who gave a Spokane address, was arrested for second-degree burglary. Iverson works at the Lubrication Station on Francis Avenue, Reagan said.
A window in the shop’s rear door was broken out, and waffle-type boot prints were left in yellow safety lines that had recently been painted onto the floor, Reagan said. Boots Iverson was wearing when he was arrested matched the pattern found in the paint, Reagan said.
Deputies found the cash register drawer sitting on the managers desk with nickels and dimes in it, but no quarters or paper money.
Iverson had several quarters on him when he was arrested, Reagan said. An undisclosed amount of paper money that also was taken was not recovered, he said.
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