A 42-year-old Boise man who physically and verbally harassed a group of Iraqi students at a scenic overlook by Lucky Peak earlier this month is charged with a felony count of malicious harassment. Brian Gail Olson will make his initial court appearance Wednesday afternoon. The incident occurred on Oct. 4. A group of students from
Crimes Against People
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
37-year-old Boise woman charged with felony injury to child
A 37-year-old woman who gave a teenage girl who passed out from drinking too much alcohol an IV instead of calling an ambulance or getting medical help last month is charged with felony injury to child. Jennifer A. Phippen was booked into the Ada County Jail Friday afternoon on a $300,000 bond. Phippen is charged
68-year-old Eagle man arrested for trying to grab an officer’s gun out of its holster
Eagle police arrested a 68-year-old Alan Williams early Tuesday morning after he tried to take an officer’s gun out of the holster during a DUI investigation. Driver Kelly Renee Vierra is charged with an excessive DUI and leaving the scene of an accident in connection with the case. Williams was a passenger in Vierra’s Ford
Kuna man who hid in backyard shed charged with resisting arrest and disturbing the peace
An ACSO deputy used a Taser Friday night to stop a 30-year-old Kuna man after he tried to hide in the yard of a stranger in the Lake Hazel/Five Mile roads neighborhood to avoid arrest. Brian M. Whiting is charged with misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, unlawful entry, possession of drug paraphernalia , and
Fugitive who smashed van into ACSO patrol car caught in West Boise after extended search
Ada County Sheriff’s deputies arrested car theft/parole violation suspect Scott Dennis Davis around 7 p.m. Tuesday after a long and comprehensive search in the Five Mile/McMillan/Maple Grove roads neighborhood. The 38-year-old Davis had been hiding there since shortly after noon Tuesday. Davis took off on foot after he purposefully smashed a stolen van into an ACSO patrol car
35-year-old Nampa man arrested for internet enticement
Ada County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 35-year-old Nampa man Saturday who tried to use Facebook to lure a 13-year-old girl into having sex. Dion Garcia is charged with a felony count of enticement of children over the internet. Deputies arrested Garcia after a traffic stop in the Ten Mile Road/Pine Avenue neighborhood Saturday morning — a
Eagle man badly injured at a house party early Sunday
A 22-year-old Eagle man is charged with felony aggravated battery for punching another man in the face with such force that he broke several bones. David Ryan March is also charged with a misdemeanor court of resisting arrest for refusing to leave the house he was in for almost three hours before he surrendered to
33-year-old woman charged with felony injury to child
Ada County Sheriff’s deputies declared a 9-year-old boy who suffers from mental health issues to be in imminent danger earlier this summer after he kept leaving his home and tried to walk into other houses in his South Boise-area neighborhood. Deputies arrested the boy’s mother, 33-year-old Danielle Bowen, July 17 for felony injury to child.