5 arrested at Pocatello house

Five people were arrested after Pocatello Police responded for a welfare check at 1126 E. Fremont around 11 a.m. Wednesday.

At the house, several people were found who were wanted on outstanding warrants for their arrest. While at the house, police obtained a search warrant and found evidence of illegal drug activity.

Two people who lived at the house denied the people with warrants were at their house, police said. When that was found to be false, they were also charged with harboring a fugitive.

Police found 9.85 grams of methamphetamine in the house. Ashley Marie Davis, 23, was arrested on charges of harboring a fugitive and manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance.
Andra Marie Andrew, 43, was also arrsted on a charge of harboring a fugitive.

In addition, three men were arrested at the house. Kody Ray McMullen, 22, was wanted on two probation violation warrants. Sierra Don Thomsen, 18, was wanted on a failure to appear warrant. And Robert Wade Pointer, 20, was arrested on a parole commission warrant.

Police said that during the arrests, one of the suspects attempted to flee.

Several neighbors said they had been told the arrests were drug-related and reported seeing suspicious traffic in the area prior to Wednesday’s arrests.

“For the last couple of weeks, there’s been cars going up and down this alleyway and trucks going really fast and they’ve been going in and out of this house,” said Jesse McBride, who lives next door to the house. “It was my thought and maybe other people’s thoughts in the neighborhood that they were dealing drugs out of there or something like that.”

Two pit bulls and a chihuahua were taken by animal control, which Pocatello police said is standard practice when there’s no one to take care of them.

Police were beginning to search the house around 3:30 p.m. Both uniformed and undercover officers were seen entering and exiting the house Wednesday afternoon. Some wore shoe covers, which an officer said is because the house was dirty.