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Arrests made in BB gun rampage

BRIAN WALKER/bwalker@cdapress.com | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 7 months AGO
by BRIAN WALKER/bwalker@cdapress.com
| June 9, 2015 9:00 PM

POST FALLS - After Robert Haynes saw the damage to his wife's vehicle, he figured the suspect or suspects in a BB gun rampage would never be caught.

"I thought that it would be hard to catch them," the Post Falls man said of the late-night and early-morning spree that damaged 20 vehicles and three homes on the northwest side of the city more than a week ago. His wife's 2014 Toyota 4Runner had a shattered back window and taillight. "I wasn't looking forward to going inside to tell my wife."

However, a 17-year-old male and 19-year-old Dylan John Siegel, both of Post Falls, were arrested over the weekend and charged with felony malicious injury to property. The Press does not publish the names of juvenile suspects.

"We estimate that the total amount of damage is more than $10,000 and it may be closer to $15,000 as the bills are coming in," said Post Falls Police Detective Dave Beck. "Someone could have easily gotten injured."

Police believe a high-powered BB gun - the one that was confiscated from the juvenile suspect by bicycle Officer Gary James in the same area of the city the next night after the rampage - was used during the spree. A knife was also confiscated.

"The BB gun weighs and feels like a 9mm Glock pistol," Beck said.

Based on victim reports, police believe the vehicles and homes were shot between 10:40 p.m. on May 30 and 12:30 a.m. on May 31.

The juvenile suspect, who was on probation for burglary, denied the BB gun allegation during questioning last week but declined to take a polygraph test. He told police that, after work the night of the shootings, he was playing video games and watching movies.

However, police learned that an adult male had given the juvenile a gun the night before the spree.

"The juvenile then confessed and it was caught on tape," Beck said. "He admitted that he regretted shooting out the windows."

Police said Siegel became the second suspect based on further questioning.

"The juvenile implicated that another person was with him," Beck said.

The juvenile, who was arrested Friday night, allegedly shot at the properties the most, Beck said. Siegel was arrested Saturday afternoon. His bond was set at $5,000 on Monday, but he was posting bond on Monday night to be released from jail, according to jail staff.

The damage occurred in the Meadows and Prairie Meadows subdivisions, and in the area of Fisher and Guy roads.

The damage to Haynes' Toyota in Greenside Vistas was $1,064.

"I'm amazed that they caught somebody, and my insurance company is going to really be glad," said Haynes, whose wife was without her vehicle for five days while it was repaired.

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