Post Falls man sentenced on grand theft charge

COEUR d'ALENE - A Post Falls man was sentenced Thursday to serve five years in state prison for grand theft and violations of felony probation.

Joshua Griggs, 21, was sentenced by District Judge John T. Mitchell to four years in prison on the grand theft charge. He also ordered that the first year of the sentence would be fixed, and the remaining three years indeterminate, with credit for time served.

Griggs had already been sentenced by District Judge Lansing Haynes on Feb. 12 for violations of felony probation in two prior cases. Haynes order Griggs to five years in prison, with the first two years fixed, for a probation violation relating to a felony conviction for injury to child.

Haynes on the same day sentenced Griggs to five years in prison, with one year fixed for a probation violation relating to a conviction for malicious injury to property.

Griggs pleaded guilty to grand theft for stealing checks from the owner, some of which were then forged and deposited in a bank.

This occurred during the same time that Griggs failed to report to his probation officer to begin his supervised probation.