Thieves targeted a storage unit business in Coeur d'Alene overnight Tuesday.

Skyview Mini Storage Manager Dee Teeter noticed that eight locks had been tampered with when she showed up to work Jan. 22 at 9 a.m., according to a police report. “She noted some of these units did not appear to have much disturbed while several had been completely ransacked.”

CdA police Sgt. Christie Wood said that a detective has been assigned to the case and that there “is a lead they are working on.”

The police report said that Teeter noticed that the criminals had left some valuables unscathed in the units, while one unit was gone through thoroughly.

The owner of that unit knew there was a “problem with his storage unit even before Dee contacted him,” according to the police report, because his son – who is attending college in San Diego – had told him that he heard from a friend that a box of his possessions was found in a Home Depot parking lot. The owner of that unit also reported “various tools missing.”

A stolen laptop with patient information is going to cost the Hospice of North Idaho $50,000 in a settlement with the  federal government.

The Coeur d'Alene Press reported Friday the hospice agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' office of human rights after the facility realized an employee's car was broken into and the laptop was missing. The hospice said in a news release that patient information was unlikely to be compromised.

"In the summer of 2010, an employee's vehicle was broken into, and their laptop was stolen," Spokeswoman Amanda Miller said. "While the thief was apprehended, the laptop was never recovered, hence all the steps Hospice of North Idaho took in case of malicious activity.

Potentially vulnerable patients were reached and offered credit monitoring, according to the hospice.

Coeur d'Alene Police said they arrested a Hayden man for burglary of a home and a store on Wednesday.

Officers said Jakob D. Richards was charged with a felony for burglarizing a home on Balta Lane in the Landings subdivision on October 9. Richards allegedly admitted he was involved in the burglary and said he traded the gun he stole from the home for drugs.

Richards was also charged with an additional count of burglary for a theft from a Best Buy store on October 6 when he tried to steal a graphics card.