By Mike Weland
A no-bond warrant remains in effect and an Old Addie Road family’s seven-year nightmare continues unabated after Daniel P. Floyd missed a motion to quash hearing this morning.
Floyd was charged with unlawful possession of destructive devices or bombs April 4, 2024, after a friend found him making pipe bombs in a workshop on his Old Addie Road property that he said he planned to use to kill his neighbors, Dave and Kim Eccles, over maintenance of a shared well in “water wars” that began in 2018. Read more here.
He pled guilty November 20, and released from jail on his own recognizance pending sentencing and missed that hearing February 21, when Judge Susie Jensen issued the no-bond warrant.
After that hearing, Floyd contacted his attorney and said he’d undergone emergency surgery, providing a note from Coeur d’Alene surgeon. At today’s four-minute hearing, Floyd’s attorney, Donald Terry, said Floyd contacted his on Tuesday and been told of the hearing.
Judge Jensen refused to quash and upheld the warrant.
The Eccles now sleep in shifts, watching feeds from several security cameras, worried that Floyd, whose home and property was sold February 25 to satisfy court-ordered damages from a civil suit over water wars, would act on threats made over the course of years.
Kim, already stressed to the breaking point, is now in near panic as her husband’s leave of absence from work, begun in November and never meant to last past Floyd’s sentencing, expires next week.
Anyone with information on Daniel Peter Floyd is asked to call local law enforcement or the Boundary County Sheriff’s Office, (208) 267-3141.