Branch Offices for the District of Idaho
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Idaho has two branch offices. The North Idaho branch office is located in Coeur d'Alene; the Southeast Idaho branch office is in Pocatello.
Coeur d'Alene
Coeur d'Alene The North Idaho branch office opened in 1996. There are currently three attorneys, one paralegal, one legal assistant and one student in the office, with additional support provided by the main office in Boise. The North Idaho office covers the ten northern counties of Idaho, which stretch 300 miles from the Salmon River to the Canadian border. Its territory includes the cities of Sandpoint, Coeur d'Alene, Lewiston and Moscow, the Kootenai, Coeur d'Alene and Nez Perce Indian Reservations, and all or part of seven national forests. The Coeur d'Alene office handles cases assigned to the U.S. District Court chambers in Coeur d'Alene and Moscow. Its caseload is varied, consisting of everything from misdemeanor tickets to violence in Indian Country, large-scale drug cases, bank robberies and certain homicides.
Pocatello
Pocatello The Eastern Idaho Branch office opened in 1999 in the new U.S. District Courthouse. It currently houses three attorneys, two legal assistants and a student employee. The office's territory encompasses 18 counties, from the eastern end of the Magic Valley to the Wyoming and Montana borders. It includes the cities of Pocatello, Idaho Falls and Burley, the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Reservation at Fort Hall, the Idaho National Laboratory, all or part of six national forests and thousands of acres of Bureau of Land Management land. The office handles cases assigned to the U.S. District Court chambers in Pocatello. Its caseload includes serious felonies committed on the reservation, large-scale drug cases, bank robberies and certain homicides, as well as misdemeanor tickets associated with the public lands in its territory.
