Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

12/6 - An officer assisted tribal police with a man they had arrested for damaging a window at their police station. The Grand Coulee officer helped move the man, who was being combative, from a tribal police car to inside the hospital, and then back out to their police car after  he was discharged from the hospital.

- Police closed a door that was open at The Star newspaper after searching the building first.

- Police collected information about a hit-and-run that may have occurred in the parking lot of the bar in Electric City. A woman’s car had a damaged headlight and some body damage while her boyfriend had it at the bar. The woman had not yet attained any security footage from the bar to see who hit the car.

12/7 - “Oversized equipment” created the need for police to direct traffic near the top of the Grand Coulee Dam.

- A King Street man, wanted on a felony warrant, was arrested and taken to jail.

-  Hospital staff were concerned about a woman who refused treatment and left on foot with her 4-year-old child. Police saw the woman and child walking near the Bridgeport Highway. She said she didn’t need medical treatment. The officer gave them a ride to a family member’s home in the Delano area.

12/9 - Police provided traffic control at a traffic accident involving a pickup and an Electric City snowplow near milepost 23 on SR- 155. Police handed control over to the Washington State Patrol once they arrived.

12/10 - Police helped push a vehicle blocking a roadway out of the way at about 1:30 a.m. The police report didn’t say which road this happened at.

- Police helped a driver whose car was stuck in the snow near Roosevelt Drive and Butler Square. Police used their bumper to push the car to where it had more traction.

Coulee Dam

Police

12/7 - Police went to Mead Park where there was blood on the snow leading from a bench into the restroom. Police determined it was likely someone who had a bloody nose. 

12/9 - Police checked on a Jeep in the Sixth Street parking lot near the casino where a man and woman were reportedly arguing. There was only a woman in the Jeep, and the license plate was registered to a different car. The woman said she had been arguing on the phone earlier but that was it. When she was finally identified by her correct name after she’d first provided a different name, police found she was wanted on a Spokane County warrant for second-degree robbery. Due to short staffing, Spokane wouldn’t send a deputy to meet at the Spokane County line to book the woman on the warrant. She was free to leave. The officer took her back to the casino.

12/10 - Police stood by at a Ferry Avenue residence where a woman was supposed to come and collect belongings. Police waited a half hour but she never showed.

- A Fir Street woman said her dogs got into a fight with a raccoon, which was now injured. The officer saw that the raccoon was not going to live, so he shot it to put it out of its misery. The woman said she would dispose of the remains.