Two Wild Crimes Across Decades | Spokane News

Spokane News Today | 2 Min | The Daily News Now! · Aug 11, 2026 · 1m

In 1976, a 25-year-old mob-linked hustler named Marco Franco Magisano was caught mid-breakfast trying to sell $1.2 million in fake U.S. cash to a Spokane detective for $230K—thanks to a slick undercover op. Meanwhile, the detective, Breen, was burned out and desperate to get out of the game after weeks away from his family. Then rewind to 1926: Everett Marlow, “the king of Mica Peak,” went rogue on a 63-year-old rancher, Cy Decker, firing shots and choking him before Decker barely escaped. Marlow, drunk and wild, chased him down on his own land; when cops arrived, he still fought back—taking…