SANDPOINT — A Bonners Ferry resident charged with vandalizing a Dover business was granted a hearing continuance due to a new case that was filed against her Wednesday.  

As part of the first case against her, Karla Deanne Warkentin, 29, is charged with two felony counts of malicious injury to property. A second case, which charges Warkentin with another two felony counts of malicious injury to property, alleges she vandalized five additional businesses in separate incidents.  

Due to the second case being filed, Warkentin’s attorney was granted a continuance on the first case, in an effort to allow the second case to move through the court system so that the two cases could eventually be combined. She is expected to appear back in court June 16.  

Warkentin was arrested April 17 after a law enforcement investigation led police to believe she was the suspect for damage that occurred to the Nutlicious facility in Dover.  

Bonner County officials suggested Warkentin as a suspect in the crime after surveillance cameras captured a white female walking around the building before picking up rocks and throwing them at a glass entry door. According to a probable cause affidavit, a grey sedan was also caught on camera, the same vehicle placed at the 2023 crime scene.    

Surveillance footage also showed the suspect reusing the same rocks, throwing them at several other windows of the business, none of which broke the inner windowpanes. 

Further research by Bonner County officials suggested that Warkentin had a history of damaging property, “often committing damages to property in retaliation” of being contacted by law enforcement. Documents also suggest Warkentin has numerous alerts for following law enforcement officers.   

When brought in for questioning, Warkentin was documented saying “so you know it was me” after law enforcement informed her of the research that had been done on her past.   

A probable cause affidavit indicates that Warkentin also told officials that damaging property gave her a thrill.