Tonight on ‘Courtroom Insider,’ a look at body camera footage from police searching Lori Vallow’s apartment. Plus wedding pics, the jury is shown tools and a tragic discovery by the fire pit. Watch in the video player above. The post COURTROOM INSIDER | Wedding pics, apartment searches, tool and a tragic discovery by the fire pit appeared first on East Idaho News ..read more

The Corndog Company is located in Idaho Falls in the Best Buy Parking lot. | Kaitlyn Hart, EastIdahoNews.com IDAHO FALLS – A local food truck is gearing up for a summer full of tasty treats, including its famous honey dogs and fried Oreos. The Corndog Company is well-known to locals in Idaho Falls as a great place to stop for a delicious lunch to satisfy your sweet and savory cravings. I got to swing by the truck and try three of their most delicious menu offerings. All three items we tried at The Corndog Company. | Kaitlyn Hart, EastIdahoNews.com. Logan Anderson, one of the business partner ..read more

Matthew Broncho | Courtesy Fort Hall Police Department BOX ELDER COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — Skeletal remains have been found in remote Box Elder County mountains. The remains were identified as Matthew Broncho, who went missing in March 2019. On Saturday, April 27, the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Office said they received a report that skeletal remains were found by someone who was looking for shed antlers in the remote Hansel Mountains, southeast of Snowville, Utah. The remains were recovered and sent to the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner for further processing and identification, the sheriff ..read more

Lance Robert Peck | Bannock County Jail POCATELLO — District Judge Javier Gabiola has issued orders on two motions filed in cases involving a defunct Pocatello funeral home and its former owner. According to court records obtained by EastIdahoNews.com, Gabiola ordered two separate cases against Lance Robert Peck — one featuring 22 felony charges and the other 63 misdemeanor charges be joined into a single case. Gabiola has also ruled against a motion filed on behalf of Peck requesting his attorney fees be covered at the expense of the public. RELATED | Charges against former funeral home owne ..read more

Jesus Perez-Yepez | Power County Jail POWER COUNTY — A man police say sexually assaulted a 9-year-old girl faces a felony charge. Jesus Perez-Yepez, 37, has been charged with one count of lewd conduct with a minor under the age of 16, court records show. Nov. 22, 2023 Power County deputies spoke with a father and mother at the Power County Sheriff’s Office about a reported sexual battery, according to an affidavit of probable cause. The couple said their 15-year-old daughter had recently opened up to them about sexual assaults that occurred when she was around 9 years old. The victim told the ..read more

Joie Henney hugs his emotional support alligator named Wally, Jan. 22, 2019, inside their home in York Haven, Pa. Henney credits Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade, says he’s searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia. | Heather Khalifa, The Philadelphia Inquirer via Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Georgia (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who credits an alligator named Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade says he is searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia. Jo ..read more

Mark Taylor, left, and Paul Butikofer | Courtesy photos RIGBY — In an election rematch for Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney, former prosecuting attorney Paul Butikofer, who served from Jan. 2017 to Jan. 2021, is challenging current prosecuting attorney Mark Taylor, who has served from 2021 until now. The race is for a four-year term. Both candidates are Republican. EastIdahoNews.com sent the same eight questions to each county candidate. Their responses, listed below, were required to be 250 words or less. EastIdahoNews.com is publishing the answers in their entirety, and without any gra ..read more

LIVE UPDATES FROM THE CHAD DAYBELL TRIAL CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE TRIAL LIVE Please excuse the typos. These are live updates from the courtroom. EDITOR’S NOTE: GRAPHIC DETAILS ARE CONTAINED IN THIS STORY. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. 1:52 p.m. Daniels says the shovel seems dirty and was a tool they were interested in from the scene. The two pieces of evidence are removed from the courtroom. Boyce says we will now break until Monday. Join me tonight on ‘Courtroom Insider’ at 6:30 p.m. MDT. 1:49 p.m. Daniels unwraps the pick and holds it up in front of the jury. Daniels says the pick was dirty ..read more

Benjamin Ray Frasure | Bannock County Jail POCATELLO — A man who pleaded guilty to four felonies has been sentenced to prison. Benjamin Ray Frasure, 39, entered guilty pleas to injuring a child and destruction of evidence, along with two counts of possessing child pornography as part of a plea agreement, court records show. In exchange, the Bannock County Prosecutor’s Office dismissed three counts of possessing child pornography and a persistent violator enhancement. Also part of the agreement, a charge of lewd conduct with a minor was amended to the injury to a child charge included in the p ..read more

Firefighters were able to contain the fire in the room. | City of Idaho Falls IONA – Residents of an Iona home escaped a house fire early Friday morning after waking up and smelling smoke. According to the city of Idaho Falls, around 12:19 a.m. Friday, renters of a home on the 2000 block of Olsen Street woke up and “smelled smoke.” They also say they heard “popping” near an electrical outlet. All residents were able to get out of the house and call 911. The Idaho Falls Fire Department responded with three engines, two ambulances, a ladder truck, and a battalion chief, totaling 18 personnel. F ..read more