Ada County Coroner’s officials identified a man found Saturday deceased on the banks of a retention pond next to the Boise River as 59-year-old Grant L. Young. Young is listed as having no fixed address. Investigators found evidence of a makeshift campsite several hundred feet away from where Young was found, with evidence that indicates he
An Ada County Sheriff’s deputy was immediately placed on administrative leave after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Sunday night. Boise Police pulled over Jason Jones after an officer saw Jones, who was off-duty, driving a personally-owned sports-utility vehicle the wrong way on Capital Boulevard, between Main and Front streets, just before 9:45
An ACSO deputy drove over six miles up the snow and ice-covered Shaw Mountain Road late Thursday afternoon to find a 47-year-old Boise man and five pre-teenage children who were stuck after the man’s pickup truck slid off the road earlier in the day. The man and the kids with him were not uninjured. They
An ACSO deputy was able revive a 30-year-old Kuna man who overdosed on heroin and methamphetamine by treating him with NARCAN early Sunday morning. It marked the second time one of our patrol deputies used NARCAN (naloxone) nasal spray to reverse the effect of an opioid overdose since they began carrying it in some patrol
A pickup truck collided with a 3-year-old girl in a south Ada County neighborhood late Saturday afternoon, resulting in fatal injury to the toddler. Deputies are investigating what happened. The crash appears to be an accident. The collision occurred outside a home in the 9500 block of Littlewood Drive just after 5:15 p.m. Saturday. It
When deputy Tim Cooper pulled over a 27-year-old man for erratic driving on Interstate 84 last September, he didn’t realize he was about to unlock a disturbing murder mystery over 800 miles away. A year and a half later, we have a few more answers – but still don’t know exactly why Jeffrey Maynard killed
Ada County Sheriff’s deputies seized about two pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop last week on Interstate 84. Fifty-one year-old Navor Bustos, who was driving the car deputies pulled over, is charged with a felony count of trafficking in marijuana. Deputies also found about eight ounces of hash oil – a concentrated form of
A 70-year-old motorist is charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with fatal car vs. bicycle crash that occurred near the Iron Eagle Drive/Edgewood Lane intersection on Aug. 13. Mary A. Curtis is scheduled for an arraignment hearing on Dec. 19 in 4th District Magistrate Court. The crime of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter is punishable by
Ada County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating a sexual assault that happened early this morning in Southwest Ada County. A little before 6:30 a.m. Friday, a woman running on West Brogan Drive between South Seabreeze Way and South Elinor Rose Avenue was attacked from behind by a man. The man grabbed the woman around the neck
