SPRAGUE — A Moses Lake man has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder after the dead body of 53-year-old Theresa Bergman was found 12 miles northwest of the city off Stolp Road around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22.

54-year-old Charles R. Bergman of Moses Lake was charged Friday, Sept. 23 and arrested by the U.S. Marshal Service in New Stanton, Pennsylvania later that day.

According to an affidavit filed in Lincoln County Superior Court last Friday that includes a report by sergeant Jerad McLagan, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office was told by the Grant County Sheriff's Offi...