The Spokane Valley Region – Not Just The City of Spokane Valley
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First Homicide in 2009 Police are investigating a homicide that claimed the life of 22-year-old male named Shannon Cochran. The incident at the 1600 block of East Garland began as a fistfight but ended in a stabbing death. Police do not have a suspect; however, they were looking for three white males observed running from [...]
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85-year-old Venita Jonson, a Rockford resident died over the weekend when heavy snow fell from her rooftop avalanched and buried her as she shoveled her walk. Her death was ruled accidental, and caused by suffocation. A neighbor called deputies to Johnson’s home in Rockford about 9 a.m. Sunday. The neighbor said he had stopped by [...]
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Maybe it should snow more often! SVI hasn’t ever seen the Spokane County Sheriff’s Investigative Support Unit so busy. For the second straight week they’ve earned their keep and busted a pot grow operation. Sheriff’s detectives Monday equipped themselves with four-wheel-drive vehicles and executed a search warrant on a Spokane Valley marijuana growing operation [...]
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Despite ghastly weather conditions, sheriff detectives assigned to the sheriff’s Investigative Support Unit raided a South Hill home this morning in the face of snowstorm and seized the tenant’s 32 marijuana plants and pound of harvested bud. A sheriff’s representative said there were neither guns nor children in the home, just lots of snow. [...]
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A bank in Liberty Lake takes their security so serious that they even call 9-1-1 on the police. Last Friday a police officer who was performing a common bank security check was reported to 9-1-1 as a suspicious person by the Assistant Manager. According to a sheriff’s deparment spokesman, these security checks help familiarize law enforcement with the layout [...]
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25 Years Ago 25 years ago yesterday, Spokane Police Detective Brian Orchard was gunned down after he confronted two gun thieves wanted for the theft of a valuable gun collection. Orchard’s killer Lonnie Link was convicted of 1st degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Operation Hybris Last week’s joint law enforcement criminal suppression [...]
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48-year-old Timothy J. Rudzinski, a transient was arrested Saturday on two counts of First Degree Identity Theft and a count of Forgery. Rudzinski was arrested because he “allegedly” used stolen cash and checks to buy a large-screen television, movies, a laptop computer, a cellular phone, a Sony PlayStation and new clothing and shoes, all the [...]
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Crime Stoppers has offered a cash reward for information that solves a Spokane Valley robbery that occurred about 5:30 a.m. Sunday. A 19-year-old man returned to his home in the 10800 block of E. Twenty-Seventh and saw the door to his pickup open and a suspect inside. A second man was standing on the southeast [...]
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Spokane County special election ballots hit the mail yesterday and again today, and voters should begin receiving them at their homes Thursday, Friday and Saturday. These ballots are for a special May 20th election. The ballots contain Proposition 1, the Spokane County measure which would provide one tenth of one percent sales and use tax to fund, [...]
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The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office reported that an 18 year old man has been missing since late Friday night after he failed to show up after a canoe trip along the Spokane River in Riverside State Park. The father and brother of Kieman Norman found his canoe sometime early this morning. The search was launched [...]
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Mike Conrad Goof Of The Week This is the young man who brought awareness to the Spokane City Council by pointing out that area convenience stores were selling drug paraphernalia disguised as small glass flowers vases. These vases Conrad feared could be used to smoke meth. Conrad convinced the council to fast track a decision to ban the [...]
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The Spokane County Search and Rescue team is bringing an expert in the field of urban search techniques to Spokane this weekend for advanced training. “Spokane County is seeing an increase in the number of urban searches and we wanted to be as prepared as we can so that when someone’s child or parent with [...]
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