Injured ISP Sgt. Wendler to return home today

TWIN FALLS — Idaho State Police Sgt. Mike Wendler is coming home.After being struck by a motorist on Interstate 84 on Sept. 8 while he was outside ...

October 6, 2022
5:36 AM

TWIN FALLS — Idaho State Police Sgt. Mike Wendler is coming home.After being struck by a motorist on Interstate 84 on Sept. 8 while he was outside his car providing traffic control, the trooper is expected to arrive in Twin Falls on Saturday afternoon. He has spent the last several weeks at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, much of it in the hospital's intensive care unit.The fact that he is returning home so soon is nothing short of "miraculous," family friend Tabitha Baker said.

Eric Goodell