Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

8/14 - Yakima County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from Grand Coulee Police regarding a report of a missing person from the Yakima area possibly having been spotted along Old Coulee Highway and Rosenberg Road outside of city limits about 4.5 miles. It was determined to have been a misidentification.

- Coulee Medical Center reported a phone stolen from its coffee stand inside the hospital. Security footage showed a man, identifiable to an officer, approach the closed coffee stand at about 10 p.m., take something, and leave. The hospital requested the man be permanently banned from the property.

- A black semi with a car hauler trailer was said to have been tailgating and driving erratically. An officer pulled the truck over at Pole Park, informed the driver of the complaint, then left a voicemail detailing the situation with the complainant.

8/15 - A man at the Skydeck Motel had a room key to a room number that didn’t seem to exist. An officer helped him locate the room based on the instructions the man had received from the now-absent motel staff. The room had an altogether different number than the room key.

- A man’s fence was damaged in the Delano area, allegedly from a motorhome that was being towed with a “firehose,” but without brakes, getting loose during the towing process. The property owner said he told the two men towing the motorhome to stop during the process. Photographs were taken of the fence. One of the men involved in towing the motorhome was cited for unsafe and improper backing, causing an accident. The other was cited for having a suspended license.

8/16 - A vehicle was pulled over at Riley Point for having expired tabs. The driver was wanted on a felony warrant for her arrest. She was taken to Grant County Jail.

- A woman waving at cars from near the skatepark at North Dam Park told an officer she needed a ride to Ephrata. The officer’s report stated the woman wasn’t in a lane of travel.

- A suspicious person at an empty Partello Parkway house turned out to be a man whose job it was to secure and prep the house for auction by a bank. He was replacing locks, making sure smoke detectors worked and more.

8/17 - An officer pulled over a vehicle near the overlook just above Grand Coulee Dam when a cigarette butt was dropped out of the passenger side. The passenger turned out to be wanted on a warrant and was taken to Dry Falls where he was allowed to use the restroom and smoke a cigarette before being handed over to a Grant County deputy to complete the journey to jail.

- A Grand Coulee officer assisted Coulee Dam and tribal police officers in a situation on Spruce Street, where a man was said to be aggressive and threatening toward his upstairs neighbor and landlord. The man had taken off his shirt and was pacing the lawn when an officer used a “modified arm bar” to “escort” him to the ground where other officers were able to get control of him before he was taken by tribal police to Okanogan County Jail.

8/19 - Police informed two juveniles and their father that Grand Coulee Dam’s Visitor Center is closed after the laser light show. Someone had reported them looking into the windows of the visitor center.

Coulee Dam

Police

8/15 - A vehicle was pulled over for traveling at 46 mph in the 35 mph zone on Elmer City Access Road. The car was pulled over near Camas Street. The driver turned out to be wanted on a warrant. She was arrested and taken to Okanogan County Jail.

8/16 - Two teenage boys were reported to have twisted door knobs of a Mead Way building, and to have thrown some road cones around when confronted. No damage or signs of entry were observed. A tipped-over cone was noted in the officer’s report. Police kept an eye on the area.

- A driver pulled over for passing in a no-passing zone on SR-155 was cited for reckless driving. Asked why she passed in a no-passing zone, the driver said she was just trying to get to the laser light show, having never seen it before.