We’ve told you about phone and email scams where criminals pretend to be ACSO deputies and threaten to arrest people if they don’t send money for missing fake jury duty or because they have false arrest warrant. Now it appears the same kind of internet-based criminals have added a text message scam to their arsenal.
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Deputies arrest a 55-year-old man who smashed his truck into the side of the ACSO building
Deputies are working to figure out why a 55-year-old Rathdrum man drove his pickup truck through a security gate at the Ada County Sheriff’s Office and into a warehouse next to the Jail early Wednesday morning. Jeffrey D. Hines is now being held inside the Jail on felony counts of injuring jails and malicious injury
Search and Rescue crews recover body found in the Foothills above Boise
Idaho Mountain Search and Rescue crews recovered the body of a man found late Wednesday in the Foothills near the Dry Creek Trail. The body was found in the same area where search and rescue crews have been searching for missing hiker Kyle Crowden since early February. Ada County Coroner’s officials were not able to
Four people arrested in connection with Foothills stabbing case
Three men and a woman who beat and stabbed a 20-year-old late Saturday night somewhere along Sunset Peak Road in the Boise Foothills are in custody. Cody C. Baker, 30; Justice M. Bowie, 20; Kevin M. Ivey, 29; and Brianna Brown, 21, are all charged with aggravated battery in connection with the case. The woman
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Detectives continue to search for a man who attacked and sexually assaulted a female jogger in southwest Ada County in November – and would like to talk to the person seen in this video. The person in this surveillance video is wearing clothes similar to what the woman described her attacker was wearing — grey
Detectives are looking to return stolen merchandise found at the home of serial burglar
When Boise Police arrested Michael Tamburrino outside a Warm Springs Avenue home he broke into last month, it didn’t take investigators long to connect him to almost a dozen other break-ins all across Ada County. Tamburrino is currently being held in the Ada County Jail on separate $500,000 and $250,000 bonds. He is charged with
Four Boise teenagers arrested on rape charges
Four male Boise teenagers who had illegal sexual contact with an 18-year-old girl earlier this month are charged with rape. Swedi Iyombelo, Mulanga Rashidi, and Elias Lupango are all being held in the Ada County Jail and are set to make their initial court appearances Friday afternoon. A 16-year-old boy arrested Friday morning will be
ACSO patrol team assists civil deputies supervising a court-ordered eviction
A team of Ada County patrol and civil deputies supervised a court-ordered eviction from a home in the 9900 block of W. Granger Avenue in west Boise late Thursday afternoon. While it is unusual to have our SWAT team assist our civil deputies in a court-ordered eviction, in this particular case we had safety concerns
Boise man who fled traffic stop, hit a car, and jumped into Boise River to avoid arrest is charged with multiple felonies
A 33-year-old Boise who had to go to the hospital Jan. 17 because he swallowed narcotics as he drove away from a traffic stop and tried to elude Ada County Sheriff’s deputies for almost an hour in east Boise is now charged with multiple felonies. Ada County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Noah S. Schroder Tuesday morning.
ACSO teaches implicit bias training to POST academy
When the Ada County Sheriff’s Office began working with the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge several years ago, one of our shared priorities was to work together to promote social justice — and to be a good example for other Idaho communities. We got to realize a big piece of that ambition last week when