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Category: District 4 – Southern Idaho

  • March 30, 2013 - One-vehicle crash on US93 near Shoshone

    IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE – generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY ————————————————————————— IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 03/30/13 4:33 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On March 30, 2013, at approximately 12:53 […]

  • March 27, 2013 - Colonel Ralph Powell Confirmed by Idaho Senate as Director of the Idaho State Police

    Colonel Ralph W. Powell The Idaho Senate confirmed Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter’s appointment of Colonel Ralph W. Powell as Director of the Idaho State Police (ISP) this morning.  Powell is a thirty year veteran of ISP and has been acting as interim director since January.  Powell will receive his rank insignia of Colonel during a pinning […]

  • March 25, 2013 - Washington Man Sentenced in Idaho Sex Trafficking Case

    BOISE – Dyrell Robert Swinson, 20, of Tacoma, Washington, was sentenced this morning in United States District Court to 57 months in federal prison for his role in a child sex trafficking case, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Swinson to be supervised by a probation officer […]

  • March 21, 2013 - Ralph Powell Named Colonel and Director of the Idaho State Police

    (BOISE) – Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter appointed Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Powell director of the Idaho State Police today, elevating him to the rank of colonel to succeed Jerry Russell in command of the ISP. Powell, a 30-year ISP veteran, has been acting Idaho State Police director since Colonel Russell retired in January. He had been […]

  • March 17, 2013 - Crash at US93 / I84 Junction Injures Two

    IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE – generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY ————————————————————————— IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 3/17/2013 3:45 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On March 17, 2013, at approximately 7:38 […]

  • March 10, 2013 - Crash east of Burley blocked traffic for two and a half hours

    IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE – generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY ————————————————————————— IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 03/10/13 2:45 p.m. Please direct questions to the District Office On March 10, 2013, at approximately 11:30 […]

  • March 8, 2013 - IDAHO STATE POLICE WELCOMES K9 “BINGO” TO ITS RANKS

    The Idaho State Police recently added “Bingo”, a Labrador and Golden Retriever mix, who is almost two years old to its District 4 office headquartered in Jerome.  Bingo has joined Trooper. Steve Otto on the road as a drug detection dog as part of ISP’s drug interdiction team.  Bingo is the only K9 member of […]

  • March 7, 2013 - ITD partners with ISP and local law enforcement to stop impaired driving March 10th ? 18th

    IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE – generated by our News Release ListServer DO NOT REPLY ————————————————————————— IDAHO STATE POLICE NEWS RELEASE District 4 Patrol 218 West Yakima, Jerome, ID 83338-5904 (208) 324-6000 Fax (208) 324-7897 For Immediate Release: 03/07/2013 5:22 pm Please direct questions to the District Office Contact: Sgt. Michael Wendler Idaho State Police […]

  • March 7, 2013 - ITD partners with ISP and local law enforcement to stop impaired driving March 10th ? 18th

    Using federal grant funds, the Idaho Transportation Department is partnering with the Idaho State Police and many local agencies in the Magic and Wood River Valley to make state highways safer by funding education campaigns and high-visibility impaired driving enforcement patrols from March 10th – 18th. "The effort is part of Idaho's Toward Zero Deaths' […]