okanogan sheriff's office

The Okanogan County Sheriff's Office finally has a weapons violation suspect in custody after failing to bring him in during a standoff last week. Forty-eight-year-old Jason Kortelever is accused of threatening a neighbor with a gun before barricading himself in his home May 24th ...

A Brewster man led Okanogan County Sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase Wednesday after stealing a vehicle on Cliff Avenue that had been left unattended to warm up. According to the Okanogan County Sheriff's Department, Brewster police received a complaint of a stolen 2009 GMC Sierra around 8:00 am ...

A citizen walking along the bank of the Okanogan River south of Tonasket discovered human remains Wednesday evening around 8:15. Sheriff Tony Hawley said the remains appeared to have been in the water for a significant amount of time and are too decomposed to identify without help from the coroner ...

An 18 year old man was rescued by Okanogan County Search and Rescue volunteers from a bluff above the Similkameen Trail, just west of Oroville Tuesday evening. At around 7 p.m., Ezra Meyer was spotted by a U.S. border patrol agent. "He was spotted in an area above the Similkameen River, above the Similkameen Trail by U...

The Okanogan County Sheriff's Office have made an arrest in connection with the murder of Angela M. Bowers in June. The investigation began after Aeneas Valley fire district #16 responded to a vehicle fire. Badly burned human remains were later found in the trunk of the vehicle...