Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

10/4 - A man told police that while turning into the Safeway parking lot, a silver colored truck leaving the lot in the wrong exit lane struck his vehicle. The two men talked about money compensation for the damage rather than using insurance, and the driver of the truck didn’t agree to the amount the man wanted and left without providing any info. Safeway said they would review security footage but that the collision seemed to occur out of view of their cameras.

10/6 - Police were unable to locate a suspicious person reported near Cardinal Road.

10/7 - A woman reported her van stolen from Yakima Street. She said her brother and a woman had left in it while she used the restroom. Friends in Spokane said they saw her brother with the van. She was told to contact police when she located more information such as the title and the license plate.

- Police assisted Colville Tribal Police with a combative patient at the hospital who kept closing the doors to rooms he was in, pushing buttons and turning off lights, and who needed to be restrained to have a shot administered. The patient threw a shoe at an officer at one point when another officer swatted the shoe down. The patient also needed to be restrained to his bed. Tribal police remained when the Grand Coulee officers left.

- The postmaster in Electric City said that she came into the post office to find carpets thrown around and  torn down bulletins stuffed into vents. She requested night shift officers do a periodic walkthrough of the post office. 

- Police responded to the Washington Flats rock quarry area after USBR Plant Protection reported a $265 battery stolen from an excavator that would not start.

- Police responded to a report of a door-to-door Spectrum internet salesman near Electric Place. Police spoke to the salesman who said he wasn’t surprised police were called as several people were rude to him and told him to leave. The officer wished him luck.

10/8 - A Goodfellow Avenue resident reported a suspicious vehicle driving by his home, taking pictures and turning around in the driveway. The vehicle drove off when the resident tried to talk to the driver.

- A Grand Coulee man reported a fraudulent caller claiming to be from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office saying they needed his social security card or he would be arrested.

10/9 - A man was arrested after an incident on Spokane Way in which a man drove near him and told him not to walk in the road. The driver pulled over. The man on foot allegedly threatened him with a knife and the man in the car drove off to report the incident to police. The man was charged with assault, brandishing a weapon, resisting arrest, and threatening a police officer. 

Coulee Dam

Police

10/4 - A woman on 12th Street and River Drive reported that she told a man not to take a car, but he did anyway, saying that it would start without the key. She originally wanted to report the car stolen, but later said he could have the car and didn’t want to press charges. 

10/7 - Police spoke to a man, said to be intoxicated, walking in the middle of the road on River Drive near the football field. The man asked, “How else am I supposed to get a ride?” Police told him that wasn’t a good way to get a ride and that he could get hurt. They told him not to continue walking in the middle of the road. 

- Harvest Foods is banning a woman who yelled at employees on two separate incidences after being told to wear a mask in the store.

10/8 - A man walking near Columbia Avenue observed a woman paint a red circle with a line through it on a Biden political sign at the end of the bridge before getting into a vehicle and leaving. The man told police the plate number and the vehicle was found nearby. Police spoke to the woman who owns the vehicle. She denied painting the sign, saying it was his word against hers. Police told her that if the witness would fill out a statement form, which he later did, that it would be forwarded to the prosecutor’s office.

- A Holly Street woman reported being the victim of a fraud involving buying $3,000 worth of Visa gift cards and giving the card numbers to someone over the phone. She filed a fraud claim with the credit card company. Police told her there wasn’t a lot they could do. 

10/9 - A Columbia Avenue man reported another man in a nice black pickup truck pulled up near his home and told him to take down his Biden political sign or he would beat him with it, then drove up the SR-155 hill. The man didn’t take down a license plate number and didn’t believe the man was from the area. Police were unable to locate the vehicle.