Arrest in Spirit Lake for local sex crime
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December 21, 2012 |
The Spirit Lake Police Department has arrested
Joseph B. Herbst, age 38, from Spirit Lake, for
several counts of lewd conduct with a minor
under the age of 16 and one count of delivery of
a controlled substance to a minor in Boundary
County.
On November 24, the Spirit Lake Police received
a complaint of a possible lewd conduct case
involving Herbst. Assisted by the Post Falls
Police Department, they conducted an
investigation which resulted that Herbst had
participated in two counts of lewd conduct with
a minor under the age of sixteen in Bonners
Ferry.
The Spirit Lake Police Department executed an
arrest warrant for Herbst's out of Boundary
County on the charges, and Herbst was arrested
without incident on December 6 from his home in
Spirit Lake.
During the investigation, the Spirit Lake Police
Department discovered that Herbst was involved
in another separate lewd conduct incident with
minor under the age of 16 that occurred within
the city limits of Spirit Lake.
Herbst is now incarcerated in the Kootenai
County jail on three felony counts of lewd
conduct with a minor under the age of 16 and one
felony count of delivery of a controlled
substance to a minor. He is also facing two
separate felony counts of lewd conduct with a
minor on the Boundary County charges as well.
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