Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

11/11 - A woman on Federal Avenue told police that her husband had been kicked out of the house and she needed to get an anti-harassment order to keep him from contacting her. She was advised that she would need to go through the courts.

- Police received a report of a stolen vehicle, then located it at a residence on Burdin Boulevard with the man who took it asleep in the back seat. A search of the vehicle turned up a smoking pipe with residue in it. The man had been arrested a few days earlier for stealing another vehicle. He was taken to Grant County jail.

- A man reported to police that he had found a government credit card on the ground at the Grand Coulee Post Office. Police are trying to find the owner of the card.

- 11/13 - Police checked on a report of an assault on Fortuyn Road only to find that two men playing football got rough with each other. They decided not to play with each other for a time.

- A patrol officer was traveling east on SR-174 and noticed a woman standing behind her vehicle. Thinking she may have car trouble, he stopped, only to learn that she had hit a deer.

- A broken teacup was all that the officer found when he responded to a call that there was a burglary in progress at a house on Hillcrest in Electric City. A man told police that he heard broken glass, saw the garage light on and thought someone was trying to burglarize his place. Police found only the broken teacup.

11/14 - A woman on Weil Place told police that she hadn’t heard from her daughter in Las Vegas for two weeks and was worried. Police reached the daughter and told her to call her mother.

- A man who is facing a stolen vehicle charge may also face one of being in possession of a controlled substance after he admitted that a smoking pipe was his and that he was a recreational user of a controlled substance.

11/15 - A woman reported drug activity at a Burdin Boulevard address. Police checked the area but couldn’t find anything amiss.

- Police responded when a caller reported 15 subjects dressed in camouflage gear with bows and guns on Hill Avenue. Police checked the area and couldn’t find anything. After talking with the reporting party, police thought that he might have been under the influence of something and he didn’t make sense.

- Police went to an apartment complex on Hill Avenue to check on a firearm report. Nothing was found.

- Police responded to an Electric City after dispatch reported an attempted suicide underway. Police had to force open the front door and found a man on the floor who was unresponsive. He was taken by ambulance to Coulee Medical Center.

11/17 - An officer became a wrangler when he responded to a report of three loose horses at a horse rescue shelter in Delano. He was able to get the horses back into the corral.

Coulee Dam

Police

11/12 - A man on Tilmus Street advised police that during the night someone had entered his vehicle and stolen his after-market stereo system. The man said he just recently moved to Coulee Dam and didn’t think he needed to lock his pickup. The officer advised him to lock it.

11/13 - A driver found out that police are serious about talking on your cell phone while driving. He was stopped near the school athletic field and given a warning. The message: Don’t do it again.