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<p>A Coeur d'Alene Police officer carries out evidence from the Roosevelt Inn where the owner of the bed and breakfast made threats involving a gun when an Avista employee was sent to collect a past due amount or shut off his utility services Wednesday.</p>

<p>A Coeur d'Alene Police officer carries out evidence from the Roosevelt Inn where the owner of the bed and breakfast made threats involving a gun when an Avista employee was sent to collect a past due amount or shut off his utility services Wednesday.</p>

May 20, 2010

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Angry at Avista
May 20, 2010 9 p.m.

Angry at Avista

Business owner held after dispute about bill

COEUR d'ALENE - A Coeur d'Alene business owner behind on his Avista bill was taken into protective custody Wednesday after a company man there to turn off his power allegedly felt threatened. John Hough, 52, was led away from the Roosevelt Inn Bed and Breakfast at 105 E. Wallace Ave. shortly after noon and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation at Kootenai Medical Center, but is not being charged with a crime, police said.