Repeat Offender Held Accountable
Jeff Humphrey, Media Supervisor, 509.622.5868
Monday, Might 23, 2022 at 10:59 a.m.
Dogged investigator work has actually led to convictions and time behind bars for a male who used his body as a human damaging ram to damage public and personal property in downtown Spokane.
” He knocks his body into a street sign, he pulls down a string of Christmas lights and then, he winds up approaching a female on the street who is simply attempting to enter her car,” detailed Captain Dave Singley, Spokane Cops Department.
A series of monitoring cams around Washington Trust Bank captured James facing the lady as she raced to close the chauffeur- side door of her cars and truck.
” He punches her car window a couple of times, he then utilizes his complete body weight to attempt and tug her side mirror entirely off the cars and truck. She was really in fear he was attempting to enter her car and attack her,” included Singley.
Utilizing the monitoring video, officers from the Downtown Spokane Cops Precinct recognized James and jailed him on a set of harmful mischief charges.
Despite the fact that James rejected obligation for the harmful mischief, consisting of a felony, a Superior Court judge discovered likely cause to keep James in prison, rather of launching him on his own recognizance.
” So by charging him with a felony, it’s a more severe criminal activity, he wound up appearing prior to Judge Hazel and wound up with getting, what I think is, a $10 thousand bond to hold him,” discussed Singley.
Cops were able to arrest James on a felony due to the fact that investigator Elina Bishop, of the Downtown Precinct, looked into the law and discovered James’ attack on a City of Spokane Parking Enforcement car required the more severe charge.
James is a repeat offender. Determining him as a suspect and then, providing the court with James’ criminal history, consisting of 21 failures to appear, is one method the Spokane Cops Department is requiring more responsibility.
Despite the fact that a various judge minimized James’ bond to 2 thousand dollars, James stayed in custody and had time to show on his requirement for drug rehab.
” By really holding them accountable and keeping them in prison for a while, not just does it keep the community safe, for the time that they’re in prison, it does provide the chance to sober up and ideally get linked to resources and other things that may be readily available to them, and that’s exactly what took place in this case,” remembered Singley.
In James’ case, the accused pleaded guilty to a set of harmful mischief counts and, at James’ request, he got Washington’s Drug Offender Sentencing Option.
That suggests the court purchased James to invest simply 69 days behind bars, however just on the condition James finish a residential drug treatment program instantly after his release from the Geiger Corrections Center.
” I hope that (James) has a modification in his behavior and is a little less violent with his behavior, so that he does not hurt himself, or others, in the future,” stated Micha Prim, the officer who most just recently jailed James.
If James does not total drug rehab effectively, the court will buy a warrant for his arrest and James will likely, when again, discover himself behind bars.