![]() There was no small talk.īamonte handed Burns a computer disc containing several thousand pages of evidence and more than 170 evidence exhibits. The veteran cops-Burns spent 22 years in law enforcement, Bamonte 25-greeted each other cordially. Tony Bamonte, former sheriff of Pend Oreille County, invited him in. He is the new ombudsman of the Spokane Police Department. It was an incongruous setting for what was about to, as cops say, “go down.”Īt precisely nine o’clock, Tim Burns knocked at the door. That’s what happened on Tuesday, April 20, a beautiful spring morning, at a meticulous Spokane South Hill cottage. Even more seldom are such charges brought by a former sheriff with the credentials to make them meaningful. NOT EVERY DAY is a city’s police chief accused of organized crime. The Spokesman-Review, a newspaper operated by a family whose proven conduct fits the legal definition of organized crime, proclaims that Anne Kirkpatrick is the best police chief in Spokane history.
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