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Police: Woman sent teens to attack man

KAYE THORNBRUGH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 4 years, 11 months AGO
by KAYE THORNBRUGH
Kaye Thornbrugh is a second-generation Kootenai County resident who has been with the Coeur d’Alene Press for six years. She primarily covers Kootenai County’s government, as well as law enforcement, the legal system and North Idaho College. | November 6, 2021 1:06 AM

ATHOL — A woman is being held on $100,000 bail after she allegedly enlisted a group of teenagers to attack a man at a local gas station using a knife and a baseball bat.

Tracy L. Bremner, 43, of Athol, is charged with criminal conspiracy and injury to a child, both felonies.

In Idaho, injury to a child occurs when a person willfully causes or permits a child to be placed in a position that causes or is likely to cause great bodily injury, suffering or death.

Police responded Oct. 23, to a report from an Athol man who said he was jumped by a group of teens at a gas station the weekend prior.

Security footage showed the man parked at a gas pump around 9 p.m., when an SUV pulled up and boxed him in.

Four teens — three boys and a girl — jumped out of the SUV, according to court documents, and swarmed the man’s truck, attempting to force their way inside.

The teen girl hit the man in the head with a baseball bat, causing him to fall to the ground, and then continued to beat him. The group kicked him and stomped on him, police said.

When the teen girl threw the bat at the man, striking him in the head, he grabbed the weapon and “fought his way back to his feet,” according to court documents.

One of the teens reportedly attempted to stab the man, who wheeled around, swinging the bat to keep the group at bay.

He allegedly hit one of the teens with the bat before he reached his truck and drove off. One of the teens reportedly chased the truck with a knife.

A gas station employee reportedly told police he witnessed the event but didn’t contact law enforcement because “he didn’t think he had to.”

The man said the teens later went to his residence, where they smashed the windows of his truck and slashed the tires.

Police determined that Tracy Bremner is the registered owner of the SUV the teens were driving, which was found stashed in a wooded area with the plates removed.

Bremner had reportedly housed numerous minors in a trailer on her property, including the teens identified by police as suspects in the gas station incident.

Law enforcement recently responded to Bremner’s address in reference to a runaway minor, according to court documents.

When contacted by police, Bremner allegedly said the Athol man had hit a close friend of hers.

She reportedly said she wanted the teens, who she described as “her kids,” to intimidate the man, so she provided them with weapons and the keys to her car.

Before police obtained a warrant for Bremner’s arrest, she allegedly fled the state.

She was arrested in Shoshone County this week and remains in jail on $100,000 bail.

So far, one of the teens is charged with aggravated battery and criminal conspiracy in connection with the incident.

Another teen faces the same charges, as well as battery with intent to commit a serious felony.

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