New ordinance allows city to seize drug houses

Grand Coulee city council members don’t like having drug houses in the community, and so approved an ordinance that gives them some teeth in the matter.

Council approved adding to their ordinances the state law on the abatement of drug houses, Revised Code of Washington 7.43, at their Oct. 16 council meeting.

If a house is regularly the scene of police enforcement, drug use, drug dealing, or other...