Plea to reduced charge ends jewelry sales case

Brandon D. Smith, 28, Moscow, was sentenced 364 days in jail Friday after he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of being in possession of stolen property. Smith had initially been charged with trafficking in stolen property.

Smith, who was a suspect in a series of burglaries in the Moscow and Pullman area, was charged after missing items from those burglaries were located in a warrant search at his residence near Genesee.

Investigators learned two Pullman women associated with Smith had been selling jewelry items to Sam Dial Jewelers in Pullman. Officers contacted the duo in December of 2017 a...