Crime

Police Make Arrest in Stabbing

Submitted by Camille Troxel on Monday, April 1st, 2:22 pm

Spokane Police arrested a suspect on Sunday afternoon following a stabbing earlier that morning.

A woman was stabbed twice after she and her husband confronted their neighbors about a loud party. The suspect was a guest of the party and had fled the location when police arrived. Other party guests and the residents of the home also appear to have fled the scene.

20-year-old Shanda F. White was arrested later that day for 1st Degree Assault. The husband of the victim, 27- year-old Shane B. Holestine, was also arrested for Rendering Criminal Assistance 1st Degree. Further investigation showed that Holestine lied and misled officers as they attempted to locate the suspect.

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Authorities trying to identify stolen jewelry

Submitted by Joseph Suttner, Producer

Friday, March 29th, 2013, 2:39pm

Authorities trying to identify stolen jewelry

The Spokane County Sheriff's Office is asking for your help in identifying recovered stolen jewely.

On Wednesday, March 27, Spokane Valley Property Crimes Detectives served a search warrant near the 14100 block of E. 23rd Ave. An investigation found this home to be connected to several residential burglaries where several jewelry items were stolen.

In the home, detectives recovered several stolen pieces. 21-year-old Vyacheslav Znovets and 25-year-old Marina Florianovich were both arrested at the scene. Znovets was booked into the Spokane County Jail for Residential Burglary and Florianovich was booked for Trafficking In Stolen Property.

Photographs of the recovered jewelry are available for viewing on the Sheriff's Office Facebook page. If you crecognize any of the recovered items you are asked to contact Detective Darin Staley at 509-477-3363. Reference incident #95366.

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Robbery Suspects Wanted

Submitted by PRESS RELEASE on Thursday, March 28th, 12:07 pm

Spokane County Sheriff's Major Crimes Detective Mike Ricketts is asking for the public's assistance in locating two suspects wanted for 1st Degree Robbery and 1st Degree Burglary. 29-year-old Ryan W. Marchand and 32-year-old Tylene J. Jones-Achziger are both wanted for these charges stemming from an incident that took place on March 16, 2013, near the area of 6700 N. Atlantic. Marchand has a $50,000 bond and Jones-Achziger has a $100,000 bond for the listed felony charges. Anyone with information as to their whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Ricketts at 509-477-6646.

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It’s a spoof! The Attorney General’s Office is not sending you stock tips

Submitted by PRESS RELEASE on Friday, March 8th, 3:32 pm

It can happen to anyone. Spoofers have targeted two well-respected consumer protection agencies in an attempt to harm the very people those agencies protect.

In mid-January, the Federal Trade Commission warned people that scammers had sent e-mail messages that appeared to be from the FTC to thousands of businesses claiming that people had complained about them. The email included a link or attachment to a document including more information. The goal? Entice frazzled business owners to click on the link or attachment then dump malware on their computer.

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Operator of now-defunct Alpine Auto Wholesale pleads guilty to felony sales tax theft

Submitted by Jacob Palmer on Monday, February 25th, 4:49 pm

The operator of a now-closed auto supply shop was sentenced to jail time Thursday for mishandling sales taxes.

Marc E. Reed, the operator of now-defunct Alpine Auto Wholesale in Spokane, pleaded guilty to felony theft of sales tax and filing false state tax returns. Reed “admitted the business collected $179,675.33 in sales tax on retail vehicle sales in 2009 and 2010 but failed to remit it to the state,” according to a news release from the Washington State Department of Revenue.

Spokane County Superior Court Judge Salvatore Cozza ruled that Reed must serve 45 days and pay $180,275.33 in restitution and court costs.

“According to the charging papers, Reed and his late mother Linda Lee Reed admitted to state investigators that they knew that they should have remitted the collected sales tax to the Department of Revenue but were 'going to get caught up later.' ”

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SPD arrests repeat offender; 'shuts down drug house'

Submitted by Jacob Palmer on Friday, February 1st, 2:12 pm

The Spokane Police Department arrested a man who has 18 felony convictions dating back to 1993.

Savaad C. Alex, 35, was arrested for an outstanding Department of Corrections warrant and for alleged unlawful possession of a firearm, when police followed up on a tip that he was at 1912 W. Grace.

Three others were arrested after police obtained a search warrant and found cash, heroin, crack cocaine and “indication of drug sales.” Police also found a handgun and ammunition in the basement.

Molly E. McBride, 38, was arrested for alleged possession of cocaine. Lonnie R. Goin, 65, allegedly was in possession of cocaine and had the intent to sell heroin. William J. Higgins, 40, was booked for alleged possession of heroin.

The search for Alex started when he fled a traffic stop late last week.

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Dog owner charged with cruelty

Submitted by Jacob Palmer on Tuesday, January 29th, 4:35 pm

The owner of a husky-mix found wandering Deer Park with a collar embedded in his neck has been charged with second-degree animal cruelty and confinement in an unsafe manner Tuesday.

The dog, Nanook, was found Friday, Jan. 25 with a wound around its neck “consistent with a collar or cable being embedded over a long period of time,” according to Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Nancy Hill, executive director for SCRAPS, believes that Nanook was tied around the neck outside “most of the time,” indicating it was unlikely he was hardly ever let off of the tether.

Nanook's owner, Ray L. Lafountain claimed the dog and released it to SCRAPS. Nanook has been adopted by a Spokane resident who reached out through SCRAPS' volunteer network. Hill said Nanook's new owner “can work with the dog's special medical needs.”

“We encourage everyone to fence their yard rather than tethering a dog so this kind of injury doesn't happen,” Hill said.

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