The tribe will receive more than $43,000 in a grant for its fire department from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the eighth round of awards under the Assistance to Firefighters program. The department is among 88 across the country which will share in $5 million for personal protective equipment. Last year 102 firefighters died in the line of duty,’ agency director Joe M. Allbaugh said. ‘Personal protective equipment is critical in reducing firefighter deaths and injuries.’ The federal grant will be supplemented with local funds.
? A federal grand jury indicted a tribal member Sept. 21 for the first-degree murder of his girlfriend. Richard Louis Allen, 40, of Plummer, also was indicted for using a weapon in the commission of a felony in the Sept. 6 shooting death of Darcy Marie Mokry. Allen, who has been jailed since shortly after the slaying, faces a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted. He was originally accused of second-degree murder when he was arrested. Authorities said Allen called his ex-wife and told her he had shot Mokry. FBI agents, tribal police officers and sheriff’s deputies from Benewah and Kootenai counties found Mokry’s body in the master bedroom of Allen’s Plummer home several hours later. Agents also found a .357-caliber handgun with one spent cartridge and five live rounds on the sidewalk near the home’s entrance.
