Cheney vehicles targeted in theft waves

Cheney police are investigating a rash of thefts from motor vehicles that struck two residential areas in the city this past week.

Between Nov. 19 – 22, 19 incidents of third-degree theft and one second-degree theft were reported, most taking place from vehicles parked outside homes in the Ridgeview-Skyview-Gary area north of Salnave Elementary School and Salnave Park as well as the Avalon Place development and Eagle Ridge Apartment complex along Betz Road. Nine vehicles alone were struck on Nov. 22 on Lineum Court, just north of Salnave Park.

“Most of these were unlocked vehicles,” Cheney Pol...