Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

1/18 - Police responded to King Street and Dill Avenue where a man and woman reportedly were arguing loudly in a vehicle. Both said the argument was verbal only; no physical violence had occurred. They were going to separate places and police left.

- Police responded to Kelso Avenue, where a woman had called 911 saying she would have a heart attack if her husband didn’t leave. She told police she was upset he was getting a car repaired, and would trust “some half-Indian guys.” Police asked how they could help before she closed the door on them.

1/19 - Police responded to Coulee Gas, where a man was reported as screaming and acting strangely. Police told him he needed to leave. While the man walked to Safeway, police learned that Grant County Jail would hold the man, who was wanted on a felony warrant out of Billings, Montana. He was arrested inside Safeway and taken to jail. On the way to jail, the man periodically hit his head against the divider between the back and front seats of the cop car and screamed that he didn’t want to go back to Montana.

- On Kelso Avenue, a woman identified two suspects whom she thought had taken her suitcase, and police searched for those people. Eventually, two other men dropped the suitcase off at the police station, and said that one of the suspects had taken it but not the other.

- An abandoned vehicle with expired tabs was towed from the area of Dill Avenue and Spokane Way.

1/20 - At about 7:30 a.m., police responded to an accident on Grand Coulee Hill Road near Road W where a vehicle had slid in the slush, ending up on its side. The driver was uninjured and the vehicle was towed.

- Police responded to Sunbanks Resort where there were suspicious vehicles reported and a man with a cut on his face. It turned out a vehicle had gotten stuck in the snow, that the cut was from some kind of accident. The man with the cut was putting chains on his tires to get his vehicle unstuck.

- A pit bull running at large approached a woman walking her dogs on Federal Avenue. She was able to keep it away from her dogs until the owner came. She wanted police to talk to the owner and tell him to keep the dog on a leash. Police were unable to reach the owner.

- A man was reportedly walking down Martin Road and yelling loudly. Police found him on Young Street nearby. The man explained he had been arguing while talking on his cell phone.

1/21 - A woman was reported as screaming and refusing to leave a bathroom at Coulee Gas. She was banned from that location. She was later causing a disturbance at the senior center, locking herself in the bathroom, and urinating in the common room. She left the senior center. She told police she was trying to get back home to Bellevue. Police gave her bus schedule information that could get her to Spokane from where she could then get to the Seattle area.

- Police spoke to a man in his car at North Dam where he told police he was taking a nap while deciding whether he wanted to drive home to Inchelium.

1/22 - Police checked on a single-vehicle accident at Crown Point Road and SR-174 where a Chrysler 200 collided with some rocks, deploying airbags. No one was at the vehicle. A state trooper arrived and handled the case. The vehicle being towed. 

- Police told a man walking in the road near the Grand Coulee Dam Visitors Center not to walk in the roadway. He asked the police if they had any spare change. They told him they did not.

- A woman on Roosevelt Drive was cited for malicious mischief for breaking a mug of a man who was moving out of their residence.

1/23 - A man wanted on a felony arrest warrant was arrested on Burdin Boulevard where he is known to police to live and work at Velocity Constructors & Engineering. He was taken to Lincoln County Jail.

- Extra patrols were requested on Burdin Boulevard due to “drug activity.”

Coulee Dam Police

1/16 - Similar graffiti was found on the gym doors at the high school, near the fire station and Mexican restaurant in Coulee Dam, on a sign near the bridge in Coulee Dam, on concrete blocks near Birch Street and River Drive, and at the police station in Grand Coulee. The graffiti included a marijuana leaf, “welcome to upper Nespelem,” “meth is legal,” and other similar things. Repairing the damage to the ecology blocks was estimated at $1,500. Security footage at the school helped police identify a man accused of the vandalism who faces being arrested for second-degree malicious mischief. 

1/20 - Police walked and drove the area of Stevens Avenue at the request of Colville Tribal Police on a report of a cougar in the area. Police didn’t see a cougar.

1/22 - Police checked on a Holly Street woman at the request of her daughter. The woman was fine.

- Someone was reported knocking door to door looking for someone on Birch Street. Police didn’t see anyone doing that.

1/23 - Police stood by at a Lone Pine address while tribal police responded to a domestic situation.