Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

9/3 - Police went to Grand Coulee Avenue where someone was concerned that a person riding a motorcycle on a neighbor’s property might not have permission to do so. The neighbor appreciated the concern, but the motorcycle rider was allowed to be there.

- Two men riding a motorcycle hit a deer near Butler Square and Grand Coulee Avenue, carried it 50-100 feet, and crashed into a guardrail. The deer died; the driver was taken to a hospital with injuries. He was concerned about his motorcycle, which was towed to a nearby hotel.

9/4 - Police attempted to contact a homeowner where a car horn was going off in an unoccupied vehicle. Eventually the homeowner came outside and got it to stop.

- After responding to a concern of dogs being locked inside and crying, police were informed that the dogs at a house on Bourdin Boulevard had access to food and water. 

- Two people brought a lost dog to the police station, saying they’d found it but couldn’t keep it themselves. At one point, they let the dog out of their car, and it ran around the Safeway parking lot, eventually being retrieved from inside the store. Police helped find the owners with the help of Facebook savvy people, and the owners retrieved the dog. 

- A truck stolen from Coulee Hardware was recovered in Everett after a man there thought it was suspicious that a truck labeled “Coulee Hardware” was there.

9/5 - Police advised a Batchelor Square woman to leave a man’s possessions alone after the man reported finding his antique Coca Cola bottles for sale at the senior center thrift store on Main Street. The man is working to legally retrieve more of his possessions from the woman as they have a no-contact order in place.

- Police responded to Roosevelt Drive where a confrontation involved a man riding a bike while walking his dog on a leash. He said that he kept a baseball bat with him because of an aggressive pitbull in the area, and used it to hit the pitbull when, he said, it left its yard and was aggressive toward him and his dog. A couple of days earlier, the man had punched the pitbull, which had bit his own dog and wasn’t letting go. The pitbull puncher was reported to have the legal right to do so, considering the circumstances. Police told the owners of the pitbull to try to keep it in their yard; they told the man on the bike to try and avoid the area. Police were awaiting more information from both parties at the time of the report. The pitbull was thought by police to possess great agility in order to jump over the fence containing it. Both dogs were seen as friendly by police.

- A man allegedly exposed his genitals to Sunbanks Lake Resort staff after being told to be quiet. The man sporting a mullet haircut was located by police, who found him intoxicated and shirtless in the back of a truck. He admitted to taking out his penis to urinate, but a resort employee said he was “helicoptering” it around. The man then asked the employee, who was present with police, if he thought it was small, to which the employee answered in the affirmative, describing it as about two inches. The employee noted that other people were in the area. The man was escorted back to his campsite and said that his wife was “pissed.”

- Police went to the Skydeck Hotel for a loud music complaint. The group had reported a missing friend earlier after he hadn’t returned from riding a “hydrofoil” on Banks Lake when it ran out of battery. The group was more intoxicated on this second police contact, according to a police report, as they were celebrating the return of their missing friend. They were cooperative about keeping the noise down.

9/8 - Police responded to Spokane Way where a man who was leashing his dog had fallen and hit his head. Medical responders took the man to the hospital and police took his dog to his residence.