Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

9/5 - A citizen told police that an intoxicated man was walking in the road near Pole Park on SR-155. Police saw the man walking just off of the roadway on the other side of the fog line. He didn’t want to talk to police, and police told him to stay off the road. The man continued to walk and was near a restricted area owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. He insulted security personnel. Police told him to get off bureau property, he continued to walk. He also said that he had called for a ride. Police were relieved when a ride arrived and picked him up. Police gave the driver a thumbs up sign as a thank you, and the driver smiled and nodded in recognition.

- Police spoke to two men who had parked their vehicles by the water tanks on Grand Coulee Road. Police were looking to see if they were dumping illegally, but found out one man’s car had overheated and the other was actually picking up some of the garbage. The men were cooperative and police determined no crime had been committed. 

- Police noted details of a minor collision in the Safeway parking lot in which a white or gray older Jeep, which had been parked next to where a man had parked his own vehicle, had seemingly scratched the side of the man’s vehicle when it left its own parking stall. The Jeep was gone when the man noticed the damage. No security cameras captured the incident, and police were unable to locate the Jeep.

9/6 - An E Street man agreed to turn his music down following a complaint.

- Police stood by while a man with a disabled pickup near Pole Park waited for a friend to come tow the vehicle. 

- A Post Falls, Idaho man had lost his wallet while doing some work outside of the Rio Grande restaurant in Coulee Dam. Police found the wallet where he suspected it had fallen out of his vehicle. The man was relieved that police had found it. and he said he would come to get it, which he did.

- Spools of wire appear to have been stolen from the Grant County PUD station where a fence had been cut to access the wire.

9/7 - A man and woman were thought suspicious after standing on the street near Cardinal Road residences, then going to a Yakima Street address. Police spoke to the man and a woman who denied having been the woman on Cardinal Road but who said she would tell other residents not to loiter on Cardinal Road.

- A driver known to have a suspended license was pulled over by North Dam Park. Police cited him for driving without a valid license, having expired registration and no insurance. He became irate and asserted it was his right to travel, to which the officer answered that he still needed a valid license. The passengers included a licensed driver who was allowed to leave in the vehicle while the man asked to speak to the police chief. After speaking to the chief, he was given a courtesy ride to an Electric City address.

- A Dill Avenue resident turned down her music following a noise complaint. The music was said to be causing a neighbor’s windows to shake.

- Police responded to a dangerous dog report on Roosevelt Drive where a dog was said to have shown its teeth and stolen a flip flop. Police saw three loose dogs, got them within their owner’s property and closed the gate.

9/8 - Police spoke to two people who had argued about a gun and an XBox video game console. One of the people had recently purchased a 9-millimeter handgun and kept taking it apart, putting it back together, and loading and unloading it. The other person asked the new gun owner to stop and to do the dishes. This angered the person with the gun who then flicked a bullet at the other person, who took the gesture as a threat and wouldn’t return the bullet, angering the person with the gun who then took the other person’s XBox, refusing to return it until the bullet was returned. The pair agreed to allow police to hold onto the gun in safe keeping until they calmed down.

- Police told two people in a landlord/tenant dispute on Dill Avenue to try and get along until the tenant finds a new place to live. 

9/9 - A Division Street man told police that a man he owes money to pulled up in front of his home. He told him he doesn’t have the money, but the man then, while holding a large, fixed-blade knife, threatened to kill him and anyone he lives with, the complainant alleged. The suspect had been in a vehicle that had been pulled over by other officers near Spokane Boulevard and was in handcuffs. He denied making the threat. Police found the knife in the vehicle. Because of booking restrictions, Grant County Jail wouldn’t take the man for felony harassment for the threat to kill. The suspect was free to go but is being charged with felony harassment. Police told the man on Division Street how to get a no-contact order. The next day, he requested extra patrols after seeing the suspect drive by his residence. 

- A married couple were seen arguing while walking near Dill Avenue and Spokane Way. A witness said he saw the man slap the woman, then take off down Grand Coulee Avenue. However, police spoke separately to the man and woman who were at separate residences on Roosevelt Drive; each had said the argument was verbal only, and neither displayed signs of injury.

- Police pulled over a vehicle with expired tabs on Burdin Boulevard. The driver was wanted on a misdemeanor arrest warrant out of Lincoln County. When the county confirmed they would book him on the warrant, he was taken to jail.

- A woman on Roosevelt Drive said a neighbor yelled at her while she walked to her mailbox and said something along the lines of she was going to beat her up. Police spoke to the mother of the person who had been reported as making the threat. The mother agreed to pass along the message of not talking to those neighbors anymore. 

9/10 - A suspicious vehicle was reported parked by Main Street apartments where there is an unoccupied residence. The residence was found to be secure. Police were unable to discern at the time if the vehicle was supposed to be there or not.

- An intoxicated man who had been lying on the pavement at Pole Park was grateful to receive a courtesy ride from an officer to his home in Coulee Dam.

Coulee Dam Police

9/3 - While parked on Columbia Avenue, police saw a car seemingly going faster than the speed limit, cut off a car with the right-of-way coming off the bridge, then pull into the credit union, where police pulled the vehicle over. The man showed signs of intoxication and failed a field sobriety test before being taken to the police station. A Grand Coulee officer assisted in giving the man a breathalyzer test that showed results ranging from 0.14 to 0.15, above the 0.08 limit. The man was charged for driving under the influence, and released. His vehicle was towed.

9/4 - An Electric City man called police and said he had hit his wife with an open hand. He waited outside his residence for police to arrive. Police spoke to him and his wife to gather details as to what happened. The man was charged with assault and taken to Grant County Jail.

- An intoxicated man near Harvest Foods complained that he asked someone to help retrieve money from an ATM machine using his card, and his card was returned but no money. The man was unsure how much money could have been taken, and was hard to understand due to his intoxicated state. Police were unable to see security footage at the time because it was late in the day.

9/5 - Reports were filed for a city ordinance violation on Roosevelt Way, and a disorderly conduct case on Fir Street, but there were no further details included in the reports.

9/8 - A school employee was unaware that two students placed in the same class had a no-contact order issued between them from Colville Tribal Court. The order was “vague,” according to the police report and difficult to enforce. The case was forwarded to the Okanogan County Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office for a charging decision. No physical fight had occurred between the students, but there had been “drama.”