Coulee Cops

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7/6 - A suspicious man was reported near the post office and tavern in Electric City, talking to himself and picking up rocks. He told police he’d just picked up a rock to look at it, not to throw it at anyone or anything, and that he was waiting for a ride to Coulee City.

7/7 - Police were requested to check on an elderly man on Wenatchee Avenue who hadn’t been seen by his neighbor in some time. Police checked the residence but no one was there. They later learned the man was in Montana for the holiday.

7/8 - A camper at Coulee Playland reported suspicious people in an Audi near the restrooms who he said had been kicked out of the campground and who he thought were drug users. He noted they were dirty and didn’t seem to bathe regularly, and the woman in the group was underweight. Police woke up a man and a woman asleep in an Audi near the restroom and told them that he was told they weren’t welcome at the campground and needed to leave. The man said they pulled over to sleep and would probably go to the Delano area to sleep.

- A man at the Continental Heights apartments reported a case of suspected fraud, with two women on Facebook. He said they wanted to meet him and needed gas money. The man had sent about $300 to the two women through PayPal and gift cards.

- Some kids reported seeing a cougar at Eden Harbor. The kids said the cougar got within 6 feet of them and made loud noises. They used a parked car as a barrier as they called 911. The cougar circled them then went into the brush and watched them. The kids waited at the police station for one of their uncles to pick them up. A fish and wildlife officer spoke to the children as well. 

7/9 - Police checked restrooms at the lower visitor center area at the Grand Coulee Dam, as well as at local parks, after receiving a report of someone trapped inside. Police eventually reached the reporting party who said that the person got out and didn’t require any assistance.

- A woman reported coming home sometime after midnight after not being gone for long and finding items in her Weil Place yard including two bicycles, tin foil, a hat, and a white plastic bag full of clothes and an alarm clock. Police took the items and logged them as found property. 

- Police spoke to a woman who was dropped off by tribal police at the hospital and refused to leave. Despite not showing physical injuries, the woman said she had been stabbed and punched, and that she didn’t have a spine so couldn’t walk. Police told her they couldn’t arrest her to give her a place to sleep for the night. The woman was trying to get to Wenatchee. Police took her to a bus stop but there was no bus scheduled. Police told her she’d have to find a ride or walk. She said she understood.

7/9 - A woman reported that, while parked at Coulee Gas, she had left her key fob, used to start the vehicle, in the door of the car when a cream-colored sedan pulled up and someone took the key fob then drove off. The incident was not caught on security footage.

- A man reported driving near the top of the dam when a rock fell into the southbound lane and he hit it, causing him to have a flat tire.

- Four golfers exchanged words with the groundskeeper who was said to be following them on his tractor from tee box to tee box as they golfed. The groundskeeper felt the argument was fueled by some kind of racism towards himself, and that he had an argument with one of the golfers last year, as well. He said that the golfer had poked him in the chest and threatened to beat him up. He didn’t wish to press charges.

- Motorbikes were reportedly racing on Pleasant Valley Road. Police didn’t see such a thing.

- A vehicle was pulled over near North Dam for having a defective license plate light. Police found the driver was wanted on various misdemeanor warrants and that tribal police had probable cause to arrest him for another incident. A tribal officer took custody of the man, who was also cited for driving with a suspended license. 

- A young man was seen on the hood of a car travelling on SR-174. Police spoke to the driver, a girl who said she didn’t want to be around her boyfriend, and that when she left her residence he jumped on the hood of her car. She stopped around SR-174 and A Street. A security officer approached the young man, who fled. Police told her not to drive with someone on her hood and to call police if she has future issues like this one.

7/10 - Police explained to a boy on Pleasant Valley Road that he can’t ride his unregistered dirt bike on public roads, and that it’s the law to wear a helmet. The officer also told him those laws don’t apply on private property and suggested he ride his bike on private property.

7/11 - A brick was thrown through a Main Street residence. A woman said she heard her dogs barking between 2 and 3 a.m. and found the brick. She thinks it may have been a man she met at a bar. She said he was upset when she denied his sexual advances, and that when she left with other people, he called them names.

- Someone reported a box on the side of the road near E Street, believing there to be an abandoned animal in the box. The box was a yard sale sign, with a piece of wood in it. No animal.

Coulee Dam

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6/29 - An officer assisted the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office by serving a man outside the bowling alley orders from Snohomish County courts.

7/3 - Police received a report at about 2 a.m. that a woman’s car was hit by an egg, but that she didn’t want to talk to police about it. Police went to Douglas Park and saw broken eggs and an empty carton there, then drove around looking for people throwing eggs.

- A man reported that a couple days earlier he’d heard kids yelling in the neighborhood of Stevens Avenue and that he later noted a broken branch on his peach tree.