William Pethtel News Today

Tel William Pethtel, 29, a resident of Bonneville County, was sentenced to a 20-year prison sentence for the shooting death of another man in Lemhi County, Idaho, Attorney General Raúl Labrador has announced.

SALMON – A Lemhi County man appeared in court on Friday after being indicted on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. Tel Pethtel, 27, appeared in court in front of Magistrate Judge Andrew Woolf following an indictment filed on Dec. 9. In court, Pethtel advised that he would be hiring his own attorney, rather than having […]

SALMON — An unsealed probable cause affidavit gives new insights into the shooting death of an Idaho Falls man in rural Lemhi County. Around 7 a.m. on Oct. 19, the Lemhi County Sheriff’s office received a call about a pickup truck crash in the Panther Creek Road area. When deputies arrived, they discovered the body […]

SALMON — Authorities have identified an Idaho Falls man as the person killed in an altercation in rural Lemhi County Tuesday. The incident unfolded in the Panther Creek Road area and involved two men and a woman. During the altercation, multiple guns were fired and 32-year-old Jon Ryan Kesterson was hit and killed, according to […]