Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

7/9 - A woman explained to police that when a deer jumped onto SR-155 near the top of the Grand Coulee Dam she swerved to avoid the deer and hit a light pole. Police observed the damage to the light pole, a street sign, and her vehicle, which was towed to an impound yard in Moses Lake.

7/12 - A woman was caught paying for one item, but not another, at the hardware store in Grand Coulee. She was confronted by police at her residence in Electric City. Eventually, her mother paid for the stolen item, a $100 kitchen faucet.

7/14 - A Continental Heights woman’s walker went missing. The woman said she had kept the walker near Les Schwab’s dumpster without incident, but that it went missing. Police checked to see if it ended up at the local senior center, but it hadn’t. However, the senior center was able to provide another walker to the woman, which police took to her.

7/15 - Police found a Bay Area Drive residence to be secure after an alarm went off there.

- Police went to a Kelso Avenue residence where a woman was reportedly going crazy, hitting people, and refusing to leave. A man explained he called the cops after another man confronted the woman about $20 she owed him, prompting her to react. The other man was gone when police arrived, and the woman told police that she was OK. Police were no longer needed at the residence.

7/16 - Police took control of a dog running at large near Midway Avenue and SR-155 early in the morning. Later on, they were contacted by the owner, who took the dog back.

Coulee Dam Police

7/10 - Police told a Pine Street man that he needs to get rid of one of his three dogs to follow city code. He was also told to pick up the dogs’ mess in the back yard and mow back there as the weeds and grass were over 6 inches tall.

7/16 - Two dogs were reportedly inside a hot vehicle parked at the post office. Police requested an announcement be made at the casino. The owner shortly thereafter arrived and said he was waiting 20 minutes for food. Police explained that was still too long in the hot weather for the dogs to be stuck inside the vehicle, although the windows were left slightly open. Okanogan County is reviewing the case for possible animal cruelty charges.

7/17 - A tribal officer at the casino had custody of a woman for residential burglary and vehicle prowling, but couldn’t take her to jail because of limitations at the tribal jail. The woman was also wanted on a warrant out of Chelan County, so a Coulee Dam officer took her to the jail in Wenatchee.