POST FALLS (The Spokesman-Review) — A Post Falls man who drunkenly tried to intimidate a man who turned out to be a police officer will spend up to 15 years in prison, according to a news release from the Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office.
In May, a plainclothes detective driving an unmarked car in Coeur d’Alene watched 55-year-old Johnathan Manning swerve through lanes and cut off his vehicle while flipping drivers off. The officer was concerned the driver was impaired, the news release said, so he followed Manning into a parking lot.
It was then that Manning drove toward the detective at a high rate of speed while making eye contact, according to the release. The detective turned to avoid the car as Manning’s vehicle came to a stop. Manning left his car and began cussing at the detective, not knowing he was a police officer…