Man At Invaded Pocatello Home Speaks About Benglan

On Thursday, an autopsy was performed on Kevin Benglan, 26, the man who died after diving through the window of a Pocatello home and being subdued by police with a Taser.

The results have not been released yet. The autopsy was done by a forensic pathologist in Boise.

Police are reminding people that the investigation will take time, and they are still collecting evidence and conducting interviews.

One man who lives at the home where the invasion happened, 2233 South Second Avenue, said he knew Benglan and he had been to the house many times before.

“Sarge” — as he asked to be known — is just one of the people who lives at the house.

On Thursday, he was cooking spaghetti.

On Tuesday, the day police said Benglan dove through a window there, Sarge was at the store.

“And we come back and there are cops all over and the rest of it — and ambulance,” Sarge said.

Sarge didn’t see Benglan come in that day, but he did many days before. Sarge likes to cook for a lot of people, and Benglan would come over for meals occassionally.

Sarge said he knows that the police said Benglan got violent during the incident, but Sarge didn’t know him to be that way.

“He never touched me. He would come in here, sit there, get a meal, take a couple things and he’d show up again,” Sarge said.

He said Benglan would take a toothbrush or tooth paste from the house.

He described Benglan as a quiet, emotionless person.

“Kevin was always kind of a street person. And he didn’t say much. People didn’t like him because of that. Silence, to me, is not a crime,” Sarge said.

Benglan was failed by the system, Sarge said. He was a misunderstood person who needed therapy, he said.

“Nobody in this town helped that child. They could lock him up and put him away cause they didn’t know what to do with him,” Sarge said. “I tried talking to any number of people. They didn’t have time. Tell him to seek God, (they said). The boy don’t need God, he needs psychotherapy is what he needs. If he wants to find God, he’ll find it after that.”

Sarge said this is about more than Benglan committing a crime.

“(The community is) either going to make a culture hero out of him or a living Mormon example. And neither one are right,” he said.

Benglan has been arrested before and has several battery charges, drug charges, resisting arrest and eluding officers charges and citations for failing to purchase a license, according to the Idaho Repository.

Both local districts of the Idaho State Police, the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office, the Bingham County Sheriff’s Office, the Idaho Falls Police Department and the Blackfoot Police Department are all working on the case.