Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

7/7 - An officer pulled over a car at the the overlook area just above Grand Coulee Dam because the registered owner was known to have a suspended license. The driver was the registered owner’s son, who didn’t have a license, and was issued a citation for driving without one.

7/10 - Police told a man sleeping in his car near the fish-raising net pens in Electric City to leave after a report of a suspicious vehicle.

- A boy waiting for his grandmother in the passenger seat of a car was warned to turn his music down at about 5 p.m. on Dill Avenue after someone complained about the noise.

7/11 - The mailbox drop-off station at the Spring Canyon Apartments was spray painted and the rear access panel pried open. There was still mail inside the mailboxes, but residents were told their mail could have been accessed. Police had no suspects.

7/12 - A highly intoxicated man at Kings Court RV Park told an officer that he didn’t need a ride as he lived close by.

- A woman had a Comcast account opened in her name and had been sent to collections. The woman needed a police report to turn the case over to Comcast’s fraud investigation section.

- Officers provided aid, until an ambulance arrived, to an elderly woman who had lost consciousness at the post office.

- A woman on Partello Street let police know that she did not want her sister-in-law to text or contact her anymore. The sister-in-law, who lives across the street, echoed the same sentiments. Both women agreed not to contact one another.

7/13 - Police pulled over a driver on SR-155 for going 44 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone and issued citations for speeding, driving without insurance, and driving with a suspended license.

7/14 - An officer helped a woman take her 17-year-old daughter home from a residence on A Street, where the occupants didn’t want to let the daughter leave. The daughter had been staying there. The occupants claimed to have custody but did not have any paperwork to confirm this. The daughter wanted to go with her mother.

- A Grand Coulee woman said she wanted a no-contact order against her husband, who she said had a history of domestic abuse and had hurt her that night. The husband will be charged with domestic assault once he’s located.

7/14 - An Electric City man was charged with being a minor in possession/consumption of marijuana when an officer smelled marijuana in his car after pulling him over at Pole Park for having a headlight out.

7/15 - An Elmer City man was issued citations for drunken driving and for hit-and-run of unattended property after allegedly hitting the building of the Hi Dam Tavern. He had been cut off from drinking. Grand Coulee police told Coulee Dam police that the suspect was heading in their direction, and the suspect was pulled over by Coulee Dam police.

- An officer pulled over a vehicle on Spokane Boulevard after recognizing a passenger as a woman wanted on a warrant. The officer was told another woman with a warrant was hiding under clothes in the back seat. The officer told the woman to come out from the back seat because she was under arrest. The driver was told he could go. The woman from the back seat asked the officer if she could have the Caramello bar from her purse. The officer took the Caramello bar from the purse, where he also found a bag of meth. The women were arrested on their warrants and the Caramello eater was also charged with possession of a controlled substance.

- A burglary attempt at Siam Palace was thwarted when an alarm was activated after hours. A couple had attempted to get in through the back door. Security footage showed a man and woman who were unidentifiable from the footage.

7/16 - A woman, pulled over on the Old Coulee Highway for having a tail light out, was issued a citation for driving without insurance as well as failure to renew her registration.

- A woman who bought a house from a man on Young Street is reportedly upset that he parks his car by the shed that he still owns, and she threatened to tow it, he said. The man wanted the incident documented.