A Boise crash left man, dog dead. Driver faces vehicular manslaughter charge

Nearly a year after a four-vehicle crash took the lives of a man and a dog, the Boise Police Department announced the arrest of a 54-year-old driver.

After conducting an investigation and forwarding its findings to the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office, police arrested Jeffery Cope on Thursday on a warrant for one count of vehicular manslaughter. According to BPD, evidence indicated that Cope was driving at a “high rate of speed” when he crashed into a car that 66-year-old Mitchell Edwards and his dog were in.

Cope is being held at the Ada County Jail, online records showed…

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