KCSO: Allegation involving sheriff is false
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 1 month, 1 week AGO
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release Friday refuting an online report that Sheriff Bob Norris was involved in an accident. It said the report was false.
The Press did not report this allegation, but is posting this KCSO response.
The release said:
On or about May 29, 2026, the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office was made aware of a false report of a drunk driving incident that occurred on or around May 16, 2026, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The report alleged that Sheriff Norris was involved in the crash and was intoxicated.
A restaurant employee, London Eden, of Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, went viral for an interview he gave to an unidentified source that Eden pulled a drunk Sheriff Bob Norris out of a crashed red Tundra. Eden was wearing a Cane’s uniform and hat and holding Cane’s equipment during the interview, which appeared to have taken place at the Cane’s drive-thru. Eden, in a subsequent interview, where he identified himself as a Cane’s employee, said: “Sheriff Norris almost killed me and another employee.”
There is one problem with this narrative: Sheriff Bob Norris was not in Idaho at the time of this incident. The Sheriff has reached out to the sole occupant of the vehicle and wished him a full recovery.
The Sheriff said what should have been an evening of celebration at his daughter’s high school graduation event turned into people asking him if he was recovering from his drunk driving crash at the Cane’s restaurant in Coeur d’ Alene.
The actions of this Cane’s employee, keyboard warriors and the two-bit so-called online journalist(s) ruined what should have been a memorable evening for our family.