The Spokane County Sheriff's Office is asking for your help in identifying recovered stolen jewely. 

On Wednesday, March 27, Spokane Valley Property Crimes Detectives served a search warrant near the 14100 block of E. 23rd Ave. An investigation found this home to be connected to several residential burglaries where several jewelry items were stolen. 

In the home, detectives recovered several stolen pieces. 21-year-old Vyacheslav Znovets and 25-year-old Marina Florianovich were both arrested at the scene. Znovets was booked into the Spokane County Jail for Residential Burglary and Florianovich was booked for Trafficking In Stolen Property.

Photographs of the recovered jewelry are available for viewing on the Sheriff's Office Facebook page. If you crecognize any of the recovered items you are asked to contact Detective Darin Staley at 509-477-3363. Reference incident #95366.

The operator of a now-closed auto supply shop was sentenced to jail time Thursday for mishandling sales taxes.

Marc E. Reed, the operator of now-defunct Alpine Auto Wholesale in Spokane, pleaded guilty to felony theft of sales tax and filing false state tax returns. Reed “admitted the business collected $179,675.33 in sales tax on retail vehicle sales in 2009 and 2010 but failed to remit it to the state,” according to a news release from the Washington State Department of Revenue.

Spokane County Superior Court Judge Salvatore Cozza ruled that Reed must serve 45 days and pay $180,275.33 in restitution and court costs.

“According to the charging papers, Reed and his late mother Linda Lee Reed admitted to state investigators that they knew that they should have remitted the collected sales tax to the Department of Revenue but were 'going to get caught up later.' ”

The owner of a husky-mix found wandering Deer Park with a collar embedded in his neck has been charged with second-degree animal cruelty and confinement in an unsafe manner Tuesday.

The dog, Nanook, was found Friday, Jan. 25 with a wound around its neck “consistent with a collar or cable being embedded over a long period of time,” according to Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Nancy Hill, executive director for SCRAPS, believes that Nanook was tied around the neck outside “most of the time,” indicating it was unlikely he was hardly ever let off of the tether.

Nanook's owner, Ray L. Lafountain claimed the dog and released it to SCRAPS. Nanook has been adopted by a Spokane resident who reached out through SCRAPS' volunteer network. Hill said Nanook's new owner “can work with the dog's special medical needs.”

“We encourage everyone to fence their yard rather than tethering a dog so this kind of injury doesn't happen,” Hill said.