Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

6/19 - A man and his girlfriend watched the Laser Light Show at the Grand Coulee Dam and locked themselves out of their car. A police officer helped orchestrate getting the couple in touch with a service who got them back into their car. The couple paid for the service.

- An officer scaled onto the roof of a building on Midway Avenue in a tactical manner that his fellow officer could only describe in his police report as being like Spiderman. The officer had scaled the building following a report received at 3:33 a.m. that said someone had been on the roof of the antique store. The officer didn’t find anything suspicious up there. In response, the reporting party said that his eyes just weren’t what they used to be. 

- Police observed a bundle of balloons wrapped around a power line on B Street. Someone on A Street had heard a boom and said that their house had lit up. Police surmised that it was likely to have been an issue with a transformer. 

6/21 - Police responded to investigate a damaged vacuum at a Chevron Station on Grand Coulee Avenue. Surveillance footage showed a vehicle near the carwash at the gas station, and two individuals attempting to dismantle the vacuum, eventually pushing it over as they struggled to dismantle it. Police took note of the details of the vehicle. The cash receptacle of the vacuum was “incredibly secure” and no cash was taken from it. An employee was working to repair the vacuum. 

6/22 - A Lincoln Avenue motel guest broke a glass door to his room at 3:40 in the morning in the hopes of getting some sleep before work. He had locked himself out of the room. The issue will be settled between himself and the motel. 

- A man suspects his ex-girlfriend is responsible for doing mobile deposits of checks in his name from a Zips fast food restaurant in Idaho and a place in Montana. The man was in jail when the checks were deposited and he explained that he had never worked at a Zips.

6/23 - Police told a woman to monitor her daughter’s phone usage more after the woman reported that the child had used an app called Police Chat Bot through which a person or artificial intelligence was asking personal questions such as “where do you live?”

- A car collided with another car backing out of a parking spot at Les Schwab. The driver said she didn’t have time to react to the car backing out. No one was hurt in the accident.

6/24 - Police went to Burdin Boulevard where a woman had exchanged words with her neighbor. She explained that the man had been intoxicated and told her dog to shut up while walking down the street. She told him not to say that to her dog. She expressed frustration with her neighbor being rude. 

Coulee Dam

Police

6/18 - Police assisted a woman with a child custody issue. The father of the child had made concerning statements that he might take the child to Illinois and also hadn’t returned the child to the mother at a specific time. Spokane County officers communicated to a Coulee Dam officer that the child was fine after being contacted. The father had also said that he had the right to custody of the child on Father’s Day and that the child would be brought back to the mother the next day. 

6/19 - Police performed traffic control on Goodfellow Avenue in Electric City where there was a structure fire.

6/22 - A guest at the Columbia River Inn requested police make sure their room was safe to enter as the room next to them had been broken into. Police found that the guest of the other room had broken a glass door to gain entry after locking himself out and not being able to reach any hotel staff to get back into his room.

6/25 - Police checked on a man on Stevens Avenue in Electric City at the behest of his sister who hadn’t heard from him in a while. The man was doing fine.

- Police pulled a vehicle over on SR-155 near milepost 25 because it was registered to someone with a suspended license. The driver was found to be intoxicated and was charged with driving under the influence after showing a breathalyzer reading of 0.158, above the 0.08 limit.