North Idaho Briefs June 1, 2012

Driver charged after knocking out power

Power was restored around 2 a.m. to all 1,800 Kootenai Electric Cooperative customers who lost power Wednesday night after a truck struck one of the company's power modules near Neider Avenue and U.S. 95.

The outage began around 8 p.m., KEC spokeswoman Erika Neff said.

The outage involved customers in the vicinity of the accident along with residential areas around Fourth and 15th streets, north of Interstate 90.

Power was restored to around 600 customers by 9:30, Neff added. The rest were without power for six hours until the module was replaced by 2 a.m.

Police cited Rodney Duross, 56, Spokane, for failure to signal and unsafe lane change.

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Two arrested for unlawful entry after alleged sex

POST FALLS - A male and female were arrested early Thursday for unlawful entry of a Post Falls residence after they were suspected of having sex in the home.

Mallory A. Helling, 22, and Sean W. Liffel, 26, were booked into the Kootenai County jail on misdemeanor unlawful entry charges.

A female who lives at the home in the 600 block of East Mullan Avenue told police she woke up at 2:30 a.m. when she heard noises and voices coming from downstairs.

"She said it sounded like people having sex," the police report states.

The couch cushions were moved and there were clothes next to the couch that didn't belong to anyone at the home, the woman told police. Police also found more clothes on Brigger Road that appeared to belong to the two, who were visibly intoxicated, according to the report.

The female said Helling allegedly entered her room naked.

When Helling and Liffel were questioned by police outside, they repeatedly stated that they were at their cousin's house, according to the report.

Helling told police she did not know where she had just come from or how she had arrived there.

When asked to leave the home by two other residents at the home, Liffel told them that he and Helling had been invited there by friends, the report states.