Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

8/2 - Damage reported at the Ridge Riders Rodeo Grounds included broken stable walls and a broken stop sign. 

8/11 - A man was banned from the Trail West Motel after harassing tenants there. 

- A woman on Second Street reported that while doing yard work she had been threatened by another woman who accused her of selling drugs and who said she would beat her up.

- A man driving a grey vehicle allegedly intentionally hit a man on a bike in the alleyway behind Jack’s Spring Canyon gas station. A witness estimated the vehicle’s speed at 30-35 miles per hour. The witness reported that the driver then got out of the vehicle and hit the man with a baseball bat and took a backpack from him. The victim then ran to a nearby house. The victim was covered in blood and told police who assaulted him. Police went to that man’s residence on Dill Avenue. He also had blood and scratches on him. He said the two had agreed to a fight and the other man attacked him with the bat first. Witnesses said that wasn’t true. The police report notes an ongoing feud between the men. The next day, the father of the man with the bat said a car was driving by his residence slowly. He requested extra patrols, fearful of retaliation. 

8/12 - Someone backed into a fence at Jack’s Spring Canyon gas station, knocking over a fence post. Bags of garbage were also found behind the dumpster in the same spot. An employee found a packing slip belonging to a Dill Avenue residence. He said that he isn’t sure if the two incidents are related.

- A man who had been seen pulling stop signs and speed signs out of the ground near North Dam Park and in the Delano area is being charged with malicious mischief and reckless endangerment.

8/13 - Someone reported children walking down Coulee Boulevard without adult supervision. An officer saw four children estimated between the ages of seven and 12, all carrying fishing poles. The officer didn’t take any action. 

- An officer stood by while Sunbanks Lake Resort staff told a tenant she needed to leave because of her yelling at staff. The woman agreed to leave.

- An intoxicated man went into Jack’s 4-Corners gas station without a shirt or shoes and refused to leave when asked, caused a scene, and was physically taken out of the store by the owner and an employee. The man was banned from the property.

- A stolen 1989 White Jeep was found in an alleyway between Coulee Boulevard and Lakeview Avenue. The owner in Spokane gave police permission to search the vehicle and was told how to recover it. A used needle was found under the vehicle, and some women’s clothing and grapes were found inside.

8/14 - A woman on Lakeview Avenue reported her neighbor flying a drone over her property and taking photos. The neighbor said that her guests were flying a drone and teaching others how to fly it, and that it didn’t have recording capabilities. Police suggested they fly it elsewhere next time.

- Responding to a report of a fight at a Burdin Boulevard address, police woke up a resident who said he was alone and there was no disturbance. 

8/15 - A woman on Roosevelt Drive complained about a neighbor parking on her side of a shared driveway. The neighbor said she would move her car. Police noted no problem with the parking as both vehicles could get in and out. 

- An Electric City resident reported someone at Coulee Playland had lit off a bottle rocket firework that landed in his yard. Children at the campground pointed out to police the car of a man they said had lit one off. The back of the vehicle was open and a pack of bottle rockets was visible. Police took the bottle rockets and destroyed them after speaking to the man about illegal fireworks and fire danger.

- A black SUV was reported as pulling into Jack’s 4-Corners gas station parking lot nearly hitting people. Police were unable to locate such a vehicle. 

- A woman who was treated at the hospital left and then came back, refusing to leave. She was banned from the hospital. 

8/16 - Police assisted the fire department by blocking traffic from entering Jack’s Spring Canyon gas station where the fire department was cleaning up a fuel spill.

- A mother reportedly slapped her 18-year-old son when he talked back to her after she asked him to get worms. The family was cutting their vacation short, with the parents citing the children’s behavior as the reason. The officer said that physical discipline of children was legal to an extent.

- “Undesirables” were reported riding bicycles near Banks and Dill Avenues. A man reported an unknown male riding past his house and flipping him off. He wanted the incident documented. 

- A Division Street man reported being attacked, along with his dog, by another dog that got out of a neighbor’s yard. When the attacking dog’s owner was told of the incident, he became angry and allegedly threatened to beat up the man who was attacked and kill his dog, then sped off in his car. The complainant is requesting the other dog owner be banned from his property.

8/17 - An Electric Boulevard man reported a suspicious vehicle with a spoiler and loud exhaust that had turned around in his driveway multiple times, then parked behind his car parked on the street. When he went to talk to the driver, the vehicle sped off.

- A man struck and killed a deer with his car on Coulee Boulevard and asked police if he could keep and salvage the animal. Police told him how to report the salvaged animal to the Department of Fish and Wildlife. 

Coulee Dam Police

8/3 - Someone reportedly broke into a home on Tulip Street through a window and stole a piece of jewelry worth about $100. 

8/4 - Two boys on Fir Street were fighting. That excited their dog, which bit one of them on the calf and arm, causing him to bleed. When the dog wouldn’t let go of the boy’s arm, the other boy stabbed the dog to get it to let go. The boys went to the hospital, and an officer told them the dog would need to go to the vet.

8/5 - A woman on Columbia Avenue was cited for driving a vehicle without a front license plate. 

8/6 - Two boys were reported as climbing the Columbia River bridge. An officer spoke to the boys, who said they were playing under the bridge but not climbing it.