Runaway faces burglary charges

SANDPOINT — A runaway teen from Boundary County was formally charged Thursday with two counts of burglary.

Ethan James Pinson, 15, is being prosecuted in Bonner County Juvenile Court. Judge Debra Heise entered a denial of the charges on Pinson’s behalf and ordered him to remain held at the juvenile lockup here, court records said.

Pinson’s 13-year-old brother, Cody, is reportedly also facing prosecution in connection with break-ins in Sagle. The boys’ adopted brother, Dakota, 9, is apparently not being charged.

The elder Pinsons said the youngest Pinson did not enter either of the two residences that were burglarized, according to court documents.

The three boys were reported missing from Paradise Valley. They had not been seen since Aug. 15.

They turned up on Wednesday near Muskrat Lake, when a landowner checking on one of the burglarized homes happened upon them and detained them. They were turned over to sheriff’s deputies after being given food and water by one of alleged burglary victims, court records indicate.

A cache of stolen rifles, shotguns, ammunition, jewelry, cash, coin collections, sporting goods and alcohol was recovered from a makeshift campsite the boys were using, according to the arrest report.