Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

10/23 - An official at Coulee Medical Center asked police if they would give a patient a courtesy ride back to his motel. An officer did so.

- Police checked on a report of loud music coming from a trailer on East Grand Coulee Avenue and had trouble with the occupants following orders given. Finally, everything turned out OK, and one of the occupants of the trailer wanted to give the officer a gift of a flashlight. The officer explained that they couldn’t take gifts. The flashlight had a magnet on it and the man stuck it on the officer’s car. The officer placed the “gift” inside one of the cars parked at the location.

- A man wearing only light clothing was sitting on a bench in front of the High Dam Tavern. Police stated that it was nearly midnight and 40 degrees out. The officer determined that the man was under the influence and called an ambulance for him.

10/24 - A man on Lincoln Avenue in Electric City said he’d received a phone call claiming that if he didn’t call a certain number, the local cops would arrest him. He said he knew the call was a hoax but that he wanted police to know of it.

- Police stopped a vehicle that had expired tabs and learned both occupants had warrants out for their arrest. The driver had a suspended license, no registration and no proof of insurance. The officer found a baggie containing a clear, crystal substance. When the officer showed it to the driver, the man said, “I forgot that it was there,” the report states, and he added that if he had remembered he would have swallowed it. The woman with him was wanted on a warrant out of Grant County. The two got a ride to jail in Ephrata.

10/25 - An officer checked on a report of a fuel leak on Grand Avenue in Electric City and found that the city’s truck had a fuel leak.

- A driver was stopped when an officer noticed that the tabs had expired in April 2016. When stopped, the driver said she had borrowed the car and didn’t have a license. A trip permit in the back window was dated for 2018. The driver was cited for operating a vehicle without insurance, failing to sign and carry registration, failing to renew tabs and driving with a suspended license. She was advised not to drive.

10/26 - A man was stopped on SR-155 for tabs that had expired in 2013. The driver didn’t have insurance. He was cited.

- An officer pulled over a Nespelem driver for expired tabs. She didn’t have insurance and so she was cited for both offenses.

10/29 - A man reported that he had been in contact with a couple at Coulee Playland and thought they might be foreigners. They said their vehicle was broken down and they were seeking a ride to church. The man said he told the couple that he would return the next day and drive them to his church. He was advised that there was something strange about the situation and that he shouldn’t return. Police drove to the site but no one was in the tent that the couple was residing in.

- Police were informed of a trespass on Sunny Drive Northeast in Electric City. The officer found two men loading items into the trunk of their car who said that they got the items from a nearby dumpster. The person in charge of cleaning up the residence wanted the items returned to the dumpster; the two men were so advised and then banned from the residence.

10/30 - A driver was stopped for expired tabs. The officer learned that her license was suspended and that she didn’t have insurance. She was cited.