UPDATED: Bellingham kidnapping suspects arrested following multiagency investigation.Margaret George Bespalova, age 28, was booked into the WhatcomCountyJail on Monday, May 5, 2025. She is currently facing a charge of 1st-degree kidnapping in WhatcomCounty Superior Court. The WhatcomCoJail is a detention center located at 311 Grand Ave Bellingham, WA which is operated locally by the WhatcomCounty Sheriff's Office and holds inmates awaiting trial or sentencing or both.

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Most of the sentenced inmates are here for less than two years. — WhatcomCountyJail data present Andre Marcel Siftsoff, age 25, was arrested yesterday, Monday, April twenty ninth, and charged with 2nd-degree tried homicide. Representatives of the WhatcomCounty Sheriff’s Office made the arrest, which was part of a multi-agency operation led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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BELLINGHAM, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) -Bellingham Police have located a suspect involved in a hit-and-run that occurred earlier today. The suspect is accused of hitting and seriously injuring a bicyclist at the intersection of Alabama and James Streets around 10 a.m. WhatcomCounty manages about 9,600 acres of parklands including Lookout Mountain Forest Preserve and Lake Whatcom Park. These areas were reconveyed from the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and are mostly used for passive recreation. - A 53-year-old Bellingham man was arrested for attempting to lure two children into his car outside a candy store in Birch Bay earlier this week.He was booked into the WhatcomCountyJail for five counts of luring.

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A Bellingham man who was detained in WhatcomCountyJail without access to an attorney for over a month brought his case before a judge Tuesday to argue for his charges to be dropped. Richard Kirkham, 48, has been in jail since Sept.