Rick Beghtol served for over 26 years with the Washington State Patrol handling criminal investigations and narcotics enforcement before coming to the Cheney Police Department.
Cheney's 2016 Officer of the Year, Capt. Rick Beghtol, has an insight into how Spokane's West Central Community Center partly came into being.
Beghtol, who moved to the Spokane neighborhood also known as "Felony Flats" from Colorado when he was nine years old, said one of his brother's friends accidentally started a fire that burned down the mechanic's shop on the current property. After that, the property sat vacant until the early 1980s when funding enabled the building of the center.
Beghtol's 38-year career in law enforcement has been anything but vacant, however. A graduate of North Centr...
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