Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

8/1 - A gas station attendant at Jack’s Four Corners turned in a brown paper bag found in the parking lot by a customer. The paper bag had a plastic bag and a small condiment container inside, both containing crystal-like substances. One substance tested negative for methamphetamine, and resembled sugar. The other substance tested positive for methamphetamine. Everything was destroyed as per department policy.

- A man gave a pistol he deemed unsafe to police, wanting it to be disposed of property. The weapon was cleared, registered to the man, and placed with other property to be destroyed.

- A woman on Hill Avenue reported her TV missing. She went to a friend’s apartment nearby, where, she said, people were playing video games on it. When confronted, the friends said that their aunt had brought it over, she reported. The woman took her TV. Her initials were written on the bottom of it.

- A man known to be wanted on a warrant drove past an officer parked at North Dam Park, heading north on SR-155. The man was pulled over in the four corners area, arrested, and taken to jail.

8/2 - While at Safeway, a man was told his grey Toyota 4Runner had been struck in the parking lot. Another person said they took a photo of a yellow Chevy truck that hit it. The Chevy was registered to a Grand Coulee woman. An officer found her. She explained that she had been avoiding hitting another person with her car when she struck the man’s Toyota. She said she got out and didn’t observe any damage. She provided the officer with her information.

8/3 - A woman wanted a man to leave a Stevens Avenue residence in Electric City because she said he was intoxicated. Both the man and woman are on the lease, and the officer determined the man unfit to drive. The woman took their child elsewhere for the night.

8/4 - A woman reportedly yelling and screaming at cars on Young Street was found outside and mad at her neighbors. An officer told her to try and ignore her neighbors and to stop screaming.

- Grand Coulee Police, about to execute a search warrant in Electric City, asked Coulee Dam Police to investigate a claim of kids breaking into the former middle school. No kids were found there.

Coulee Dam

Police

7/28 - A driver was stopped at the smoke shop for having expired tabs. When told why she was being pulled over, she said, “Damn it.” She also had a suspended license, as did the registered owner of the vehicle. The vehicle was towed.

7/29 - A white Ford Tempo was towed from River Drive for being parked in the same spot on city property for too long, which is against city ordinance. There was no contact information for the registered owner.

7/31 - A woman on Tulip Street believes a neighbor is shooting a BB gun at her cats when they are near his bird feeder. She said she hasn’t seen injuries on her cats but that they disappear. The man said he doesn’t have any guns, and wouldn’t shoot at the cats, although he admitted to throwing rocks to keep them away from the birds, which he likes. A trail camera was set up on a city tree in the area.

8/2 - A car was pulled over along SR-155 near milepost 26 for going 47 mph in a 30 mph zone. The driver said it couldn’t have been him, but that there was a guy driving like a jerk just outside of Grand Coulee. Given a speeding ticket, he said it was a federal road and, “I’ll see you in court.”

- An officer responded to the Columbia River Inn for a report of two people having sex in a car with the doors open in the parking lot. Upon his arrival, an officer noted two people near the car — a man with no shirt and holding clothes over his groin area, and a woman wearing a tank top and denim shorts. The officer spoke to the two. The man paced around in pain, saying he has a hernia. When talking to the reporting party, the officer was told the two were in the car, kept getting in and out of the car, were acting strange, and the man kept touching his groin. The officer said that nothing illegal happened, and the two were free to go back to their hotel room. Later that same day, the woman asked the officer if he “wanted a hit” off of a marijuana cigarette. The officer refused, told her she couldn’t smoke marijuana in public, and cited her with an infraction for doing so.