Cheney claims former Myers Park in legal settlement

By BECKY THOMAS

Staff Reporter

The city of Cheney's legal battle with Thomas Myers, which spanned over a decade and included multiple lawsuits, has finally come to an end.

In a settlement, the city took ownership of two of Myers' former properties in lieu of jail time and $840,000 in fines wracked up for dozens of city code violations.

According to a July 2009 article in the Cheney Free Press, Myers' final action against Cheney was petitioning relief from the fines and jail sentence imposed by the city in June 2004 over 51 misdemeanor counts of unlawfully leasing spaces in his mobile home park...