Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

8/28 - Coulee Medical Center requested police assistance with a combative patient being brought in by Colville Tribal Corrections. The patient was cooperative upon arrival in an ambulance, and police assistance was not needed.

- Grand Coulee Avenue dogs had food and water when an officer checked on them at a neighbor’s request. No barking was heard by the officer, as had been reported by the neighbor.

- A purse found at Coulee Creamery was returned to its owner.

- Checking on a report of a burglary on Cardinal Road, police found a woman entering her father’s house through a window. She said she was staying there, but didn’t have a key. The officer had knowledge of the house being her residence, and left the scene.

- A Dill Ave. man was reportedly throwing things and yelling outside around 9 p.m. The man said he was calling his brother’s dog, denied throwing things, and was warned about the noise.

- A man said he’d picked up stray dogs in Coulee City and wanted to turn them in. An officer told him he needed to speak to Grant County authorities, because the dogs were picked up 30 miles away. The man called 911 while speaking with the officer and began swearing at the dispatcher. The officer warned the man about abusing the emergency line. The man became agitated and left.

8/29 - A woman backed her vehicle into another woman’s uninsured vehicle, causing damage estimated to be less than $750, as estimated by a State Farm insurance agent who took photos of the damage.

8/30 - Police responded to a 911 hangup call in which a female stated there was an emergency at a Cole St. address before hanging up. No such address existed. The officer checked the area and the cross street, but couldn’t find an emergency.

- After pulling a young driver over at the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center, an officer recommended the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office look into his being in violation of his instruction permit. The officer reported that the driver didn’t have a valid license, the car wasn’t registered to him, nor was it insured. A licensed driver came to pick up the vehicle.

- Grand Coulee Ave. dogs began to bark constantly and loudly only when an officer approached them. The officer was responding to a report of barking dogs. The dogs appeared playful, the officer noted, but the owners had been cited before for not licensing the dogs. The officer warned one of the owners to license them before the fines became harsher. The owner said he would try to figure it out.

- A man was taken to Grant County Jail after being arrested at Grand and Stevens on a warrant.

8/31 - A Grand Coulee minor called 911, saying that her friends were spying on her. The minor’s mother was sleeping. The officer told the mother to tell her daughter that 911 is for emergencies only.

9/1 - A driver pulled over on Spokane Way was cited for failure to transfer the vehicle’s title within 45 days. The vehicle was registered to a deceased person, and the man explained that he is going to register the vehicle in his name as soon as it clears probate.

9/2 - An F Street woman had two cows on her front lawn. The officer helped her corral them into an enclosure near the property for the cows’ protection. The owners could not be found.

- A man was reported to have been high on meth, yelling, jumping, and running around the back of Coulee Medical Center. He reportedly was picked up by a vehicle and left before an officer arrived.

- A Park Ave. woman tried to use Siri to call the hospital, but the Apple digital assistant called 911 instead.

- A suspicious smell of burning plastic coming from Coulee Playland’s laundry room was taken care of by the owner after it was brought to his attention.

9/3 - A missing golf cart was found behind Sunbanks Lake Resort. Later, another golf cart was reported missing. The officer noted a smell of intoxicants coming from the resort security staff. The missing cart was found parked on some grass within the resort.

- A Grand Ave. woman reported that 10 teenagers in her bedroom refused to leave. No teenagers were there, and the officer spoke with the woman about potential dementia problems.

- An unknown caller reported being followed and sounded out of breath. Police determined that he was the same man reportedly acting strangely at Safeway who said he had eaten a bunch of meth, was feeling strange, and that he “didn’t do it.” The man was later checked out at Coulee Medical Center but refused to leave. He was taken to his Hill Ave. residence. The next day, he called police saying people were threatening him with knives. Police found no such people there. The man thanked police and was again taken to Coulee Medical Center.