Coulee Cops

Coulee Dam Police

6/2 - An alarm at the National Park Service headquarters on Crest Drive was a false alarm set off by a worker.

6/5 - An officer returned a dog running at large on Camas Street to its yard, but was unable to contact the owner.

Grand Coulee Police

6/11 - An Electric City man pulled over near the four-corners area for driving with expired tabs was found to have a warrant for a misdemeanor and taken into Grant County Jail.

6/12 - An Electric City man reported a truck filled with garbage parked illegally on private property. Officer located the owners and warned them if they were seen on the property again they would be charged with criminal trespassing.

- A hit and run by a white Jetta to a blue Fusion in the Safeway parking lot caused an estimated $500 in damage to a woman’s uninsured car while she was in the store. The driver of the white Jetta was not found.

6/13 - A Grand Coulee officer assisted Coulee Dam police on Camas Street, where a woman was refusing to come out of the house and her boyfriend recorded his conversation with an officer at the doorway, refusing to let him in. The officer told the man he was obstructing an investigation. Both parties were issued citations, and officers left. Grand Coulee was called in to assist at the request of the offending parties, who say that Coulee Dam police are harassing them.

- A woman reported that another woman had called her a “cracked out whore” and threatened to beat her up while at the Hi Dam Tavern. The bartender told the officer that he told the accused woman to leave.

- Officers responding to a domestic call because of a verbal argument on Weil Place found that two persons in the home were wanted on arrest warrants. One officer took the woman, while the other officer took the man, to Grant County Jail in Ephrata.

- A Grand Coulee man on Young Street said that a handle to his screen door was found in a nearby field, while another handle was found on the porch. The main door appeared untouched, and nothing appeared to be missing.

- An officer was called to the Washington Flats area outside Coulee Dam to investigate automatic gun fire. The two men at the scene allowed the officer to inspect their weapons, which were legal to own and operate.

6/16 - Campers at Spring Canyon were warned to keep quiet after continuing to disturb other campers. A Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy eventually arrived and told the campers to go to bed, which they did.

- An intoxicated man was waving his arms around and yelling outside of the Hi Dam Tavern at about 2:30 a.m. The man was yelling about North Koreans bombing the dam, among other conspiracies and strange items. The officer calmed the man down and directed him toward the residence where he said he was staying.

- An officer responded to a collision near the Lakeview Terrace Trailer Court in Lincoln County, where a Subaru had hit a deer. The officer made sure that the driver was not injured and that the deer was deceased. He left after Washington State Patrol arrived on the scene.

6/17 - An Electric City woman reported that a blonde woman in her 20s who appeared intoxicated had walked into her home on Grand Avenue. When told to leave, the woman left in an unknown direction.

- A light-colored van ran over a stop sign that was already down in the weeds on Martin Hill.

- An officer responding to a report of an overdose at Sunbanks Lake Resort found a 20-year-old woman who said she had taken muscle relaxers. An ambulance took her to Coulee Medical Center, which reported only finding high levels of alcohol, as well as Tylenol.

- An officer assisted a motorist with a flat tire near Northrup Canyon, helping get the vehicle towed and giving the motorist a ride.

6/18 - A regular trespasser at the Senior Manor apartments in Grand Coulee was seen again and took off, according to eyewitnesses.