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They found him on Facebook

Matching surveillance photos to his social media account, Grant County Sheriff deputies last week arrested a Moses Lake man following burglaries and a robbery in a north Moses Lake neighborhood.

Luis Hernandez Santa Cruz came to the attention of deputies when the name Luis was associated with the crimes. Deputies then took to social media after a tip that his Facebook profile photo closely matched images caught on a surveillance camera at a burglarized home, the sheriff’s office said Jan. 2.

Further investigation connected Santa Cruz to additional unsolved crimes and he was arrested Monday morning, Dec. 31, 2018, on suspicion of burglary and robbery, GCSO said.

Deadline on old school extended

A deadline for the sale of the closed Center School to a developer has been extended.

After a land survey found a discrepancy with a neighbor’s boundaries, Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Paul Turner asked the school board for more time to come to an agreement with the neighbor.

The schoolboard extended the deadline from Dec. 31, 2018 to March 31, 2019.

They’re not in junior high

Sixth-grade students at Lake Roosevelt Elementary will not be wrestling with seventh- and eighth-graders following a decision by the Grand Coulee Dam School District directors last month.

A request had come in to the athletic director to consider such a change.

Directors and the superintendent were uncomfortable with the idea of sixth-graders wrestling eighth-graders.

Even if they weigh the same amount, noted board chair Rich Black, there’s a great difference in levels of maturity and strength. Supertinendent Paul Turner noted there are opportunities for sixth-graders to wrestle in other local organizations.