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Man gets prison for demolishing Post Falls home

by KAYE THORNBRUGH
Staff Writer | August 4, 2026 1:08 AM

COEUR d’ALENE — A man who carried out the “violent unprovoked” destruction of an unoccupied home with an excavator last year received a lengthy prison sentence.

After a four-day trial in May, jurors convicted Fred J. Kudrna IV, 30, of burglary and malicious injury to property, both felonies, as well as the misdemeanor offenses of driving under the influence and operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent. 

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