Chelan County Regional Justice Center

Jail director Chris Sharp says the decision was made to give inmates fingertip access to Narcan after a near death experience.

The city will pay Chelan County $965,000 for jail service in the next year starting in January.

The Chelan County Regional Justice Center has introduced K9 Gambit, a 3-year-old border collie mix. In August, the jail lost its narcotics-detecting canine, K9 Kait, when she died suddenly while undergoing treatment for a liver condition.

K9 Kait served as a narcotics-detecting canine with her partner and handler Corrections Deputy Jacob Lewis at the CCRJC until earlier this year. K9Kait passed away unexpectedly last month while undergoing treatment for chronic hepatitis of the liver.

An inmate knocked the deputy down and struck him repeatedly.

Dalton Scott Potter is charged in Douglas County Superior Court with 13 felonies, including first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.