Boise Police K9 Takes One Into Custody

BOISE, ID — A Garden City man had a busy Thursday, ending with a police K9 assisting police with an arrest.

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On August 5, 2021, just before 9:00am, Boise Police responded to a report of a battery that had just occurred. As officers responded they learned the suspect was in the process of stealing a truck and was driving away from the scene near Orchard and Franklin.

Officers located the suspect and the stolen vehicle at a business near Broadway and Linden. The suspect took off running on foot and ran into an occupied building on the 2500 block of Broadway. Officers worked to evacuate the building and find the suspect.

The suspect was identified as Joshua Wilkie. Wilkie was also the suspect in a commercial burglary, vehicle theft, and was suspected to have caused $20,000 in damage to a business on August 3rd, 2021.

On Thursday, August 5th, a police K9 was used to help take Wilkie into custody after he ran into the occupied building.

Wilkie was taken to the hospital and medically cleared before he was booked into the Ada County Jail. He faces four counts of Grand Theft, and a single count of Malicious Injury to Property.

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