A pair of Ada County Sheriff’s Office jail deputies working on the transport team helped get a family out of a burning home in Boise Tuesday morning. Deputies Billy Fikes and Dan Allen had just stopped at the Jackson’s at 897 Cole Road to get a cup of coffee when they noticed smoke coming from
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Thanks to public for helping us find woman using stolen credit cards
Thanks to public input, deputies have identified a woman caught using credit cards stolen from inside three cars in Eagle late last month. Those people who had their cars broken into and wallets or purses stolen since Sept. 22 got reports that someone used their stolen credit or bank cards. We put out a picture
Boise man charged with arson in connection with Hill Road house fire
A 34-year-old man found walking away from a house fire on Hill Road Thursday night — wearing clothes with burn marks and that smelled like petroleum — is charged with first degree arson. Patrick Sean Irving is being held in the Ada County Jail. Ada County Sheriff’s deputies, Boise police, and Boise Fire investigators are determining if
84-year-old Eagle woman injured in rollover crash
An 84-year old Eagle woman was injured Tuesday afternoon after she lost control of her car in a two-tiered parking lot at the Eagle Road/Ranch Drive intersection. The crash occurred just before 3 p.m. The woman was driving her car into a parking spot in upper tier of the parking lot and went too far.
Don’t leave your wallet or purse in a car if you want to avoid broken windows — and identity fraud
A persistent group of thieves known as the “felony lane gang” have been going through parking lots in the Treasure Valley — including health clubs, stores, public parks, and even churches — over the last several months. They break car windows to get at wallets, purses, backpacks, or other bags that may have credit cards, bank
Appliance thieves targeting vacant homes in Ada County
Thieves have broken into a least five Ada County homes — either vacant or in the process of being sold — since mid-September and stolen stoves and/or refrigerators from inside. In four of the five break-ins, there is no sign of forced entry. In one case, thieves broke through the back door of a garage. It
Eagle police bust teens responsible for dozens of car burglaries
The best way to avoid being a victim of “jockeyboxing” — which means people walking through neighborhoods at night and stealing whatever they can grab from unlocked cars — is to lock your car. All the time. That way, if you mistakenly leave your cell phone, purse, wallet, ipod, or change behind when you park in
Detective investigate $14,000 tire theft at Kuna area farm
Ada County Sheriff’s detectives are looking for whoever stole $14,000 worth of semi truck tires from a turf farm in the 9800 block of Kuna Road last week. The 30 tires were reported missing to ACSO deputies on Friday — the day after a farm employee noticed they weren’t on a storage rack. Around that same
33-year-old Meridian man charged with aggravated battery, second-degree kidnapping
A 33-year-old Meridian man is charged with aggravated battery after using knives to cut two people he was camping and fishing with by Swan Falls Dam over the weekend. William Miles Buckman is also charged with two counts of second-degree kidnapping for holding the same two people at knifepoint. Neither of the two people who
36-year-old Kuna man charged with lewd conduct
Detectives arrested 36-year-old Leo Joseph Bright Wednesday on charges of lewd conduct with a child under the age of 16 and sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16. Investigators say he had inappropriate sexual contact with two girls who were known to him. The incidents happened between 2010 and 2012 at Bright’s