Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

7/7 - Three cars were reported

racing in the alley of Williams Avenue

in Electric City, attempting

to get air by hitting speed bumps

while driving fast. The cars were

gone upon police arrival. Suspects

were thought by the reporting

party to live on Kelso Avenue.

- A man with dementia walking

around Burdin Boulevard was

found by police to be doing OK

and was going to his nearby home

with family.

7/8 - A door was reported open

on a Roosevelt Avenue home. The

homeowner was contacted and

later reported $1,400 in cash,

$100 in coins, and a loose diamond

missing from a box, a checkbook,

and some medications missing.

A neighbor said they saw a blue

Dodge truck at the residence for

only about 15 minutes.

- A driver was pulled over on

Midway Avenue when an officer

found the vehicle registered to an

unlicensed driver. The driver was

indeed unlicensed. She was cited

for that and for driving without

insurance. She also was violating

a no-contact court order in which

her passenger, a man, was the one

to be protected from her. She was

taken to jail for violating the no

contact order.

7/9 - A man was banned from a

Second Street address where he

was said by the reporting party

to not be welcome. Police found

the man walking down Burdin

Boulevard carrying a small bird.

Police told him he shouldn’t have

touched the bird, which was

young and not injured, and told

him about the trespass complaint.

- Two kids ages 13 and 15 were

reported to have been riding their

dirt bikes on SR-174. Police found

them at the Jack’s Spring Canyon

gas station. They told police they

were camping at Spring Canyon

and rode their bikes from there.

An officer told them they couldn’t

ride unlicensed motorcycles on

the highway. The kids called their

parents, who came and picked

them up.

- A man was banned from a

Batchelor Square address where

he was said to be causing trouble.

- A man found a plastic container

with 10.7 grams of a substance

that later tested positive

for meth. He turned the container

over to police, who entered it into

evidence for destruction.

7/11 - Police spoke to a woman

on Roosevelt Drive reported to be

loud and playing with fire. She explained

they were “throwing fire,”

with a fire on the end of a string

being spun around in a dance like

motion. Police told her to be careful

because the area is in high fire

danger.

- A man was banned from an

Electric Boulevard address after

collecting his items from the

house of the woman with whom

he is going through a divorce.

7/12 - Police responded to an

alarm at Les Schwab. An employee

arrived at the same time

as police and found the lobby door

unlocked, possibly just not locked

after closing. Security footage

didn’t reveal anything unusual.

- A woman was reported to be

having a sort of nervous breakdown,

banging on the door to the

police station. An officer noted she

appeared to be on stimulants. She

said she was being harassed but

provided no details. She asked for

a ride to the casino, which an officer

refused, saying he wasn’t a

taxi. Later, the same woman was

issued a public nuisance infraction

after it was reported she

was drinking a beer near Grand

Coulee City Hall and talking to

herself. Police told her to pour out

her beer, which she refused, and

so an officer did it for her. She also

didn’t clean up her garbage. She

was also banned from Coulee Gas,

where she was said to be bothering

customers asking for money

and beer.

- A storage shed at Banks Lake

Golf Course was broken into. Two

golf carts were taken out and

abandoned on the course. Two

other carts, which weren’t supposed

to be there, were in the

shed. One of the carts left on the

course had damage to it consistent

with running over golf green flagpoles.

Three poles were damaged,

valued at $100 each. It appeared

the carts had been used to spin

“donuts” on the greens. Beer cans

were also found on the course.

7/13 - A suspicious vehicle was

reported near Martin Road and

Hill Avenue because a woman in

the van ducked down when the

reporting party passed by. Police

found a woman and her dog in the

van, not committing any crimes.

- A two-car collision at the Four-

Corners intersection of SR-174

and SR-155 involved a red Honda

Civic and a grey Saturn. A semitruck

in the turn lane obscured

the visibility of both drivers, as

the Honda pulled into the intersection

and the Saturn hit it. The

airbag deployed in the Saturn. Its

driver went to the hospital saying

she had neck and back pain. Damage

to the Saturn is estimated at

$10,000. Damage to the Honda is

estimated at $3,000. No injuries

were reported for the driver or the

passengers of the Honda.

Coulee Dam

Police 7/11 - After investigating an

open garage door and an ajar

front door at a Stevens Avenue

home where no one was home,

police found that a new owner intentionally

had left the home that

way.

7/12 - A Columbia Avenue woman

requested that two people be

banned from her home after one

of them was pounding on her

front door at about 4 a.m.