Coulee Cops

Coulee Dam

Police

1/8 - Someone complained about a dog on Spokane Street in Coulee Dam. Police are aware that a dog there is inside in a kennel and is not being neglected.

1/9 - A driver was asleep at a gas pump at the gas station in Coulee Dam. He just needed gas and once he got gas had left before police arrived.

- A driver told police he didn’t think he had been going so fast when stopped for going 51 miles per hour in the 30-mph zone near the Grand Coulee Dam. 

1/10 - Police received a report of a suspicious vehicle parked on Electric Boulevard in Electric City. The driver informed police he worked for Charter Cable and was conducting a survey of the area.

- Police received a report of a suspicious vehicle on Holly Street in Coulee Dam that had parked near a fire hydrant. The driver had gotten out, transferred items into another vehicle, seemingly in a hurry, then drove off in the other vehicle. Police attempted to contact the registered owner at a River Drive residence but were unable to, told by juveniles in the house that no one was there by the name of the registered owner. 

- Just moments after police had left, they were called back to the River Drive residence in the previous report, where now a bedroom was on fire. The officer saw large flames coming from the upstairs of the home. The kids, standing in the driveway with pets on a leash, told the officer a woman in a wheelchair was in the basement and needed help getting out. The officer entered through a garage through heavy smoke and found the woman. He was able to navigate through several doorways to get her out of the house. There was no time for her to grab her shoes, the officer told her. All people in the house were accounted for. The kids explained they’d called 911 after discovering the fire and not being able to put it out with water or snuff it out with blankets. The homeowner arrived and police spoke with her. The cause of the fire was likely a space heater that she said had been turned off before she left for work.

1/12 - Police responded to a report of a sinking boat on Banks Lake. The boat was approaching shore and the people were not in immediate danger. Fire and medical crews helped the people off the boat once it reached the shore. Police assistance was not needed.

Grand Coulee Police

1/8 - At the Teepee Drive-In at Main Street and Midway Avenue, a semi truck’s trailer slid to the side while approaching Midway Avenue, hitting a man’s vehicle parked there, denting the side of it and breaking the driver-side mirror. Security footage from a gas station across the street captured the incident.

- Grand Coulee Police were not needed as other agencies had already responded to a single vehicle rollover accident on SR-174 near milepost 25. 

- Poor weather conditions resulted in a man striking the curb near milepost 27 on SR-155, damaging his wheel and disabling his vehicle, partially blocking a lane of travel. Multiple similar incidents in the region caused a delay in the vehicle being towed, but it ultimately was. The driver was not impaired. Vehicles were seen sliding around due to the poor weather while the officer collected details.

- Two people constructed a snow berm near the intersection of Alcan Road and King Street. Police cleared the berm and didn’t see the people reported to have done it.

1/10 - A man had been acting strange at the sandwich shop on Spokane Way, locking the door behind him and then refusing to leave when asked by the owner. Police cuffed the man and told him he was banned from the restaurant, and provided a ride to Safeway. Shortly after being dropped off there, police learned he had gone through a vehicle at the Center Lodge motel, had rifled through a wallet and taken a phone charger. When police spoke to him at the Safeway parking lot, the man admitted to having gone into cars. A translator on the phone helped police inform the man in Spanish that he was under arrest because of vehicle prowling. He was taken to jail for the charge. 

- A Young Street man told police about a Yellow Mitsubishi hitting a neighbor’s gate. He said the driver and neighbor had spoken after the incident but didn’t know how the conversation went. Police didn’t receive any other reports about the incident. 

1/12 - A Grand Coulee officer assisted a tribal police officer in a situation in which a man had parked in a restricted area in the Marina Way area near the Grand Coulee Dam. The Lincoln County driver had been in an argument at his home and left to deescalate the situation, parking in the Marina Way area. He was directed towards public areas more suitable for him to park. 

- Police checked on an A Street dog. The dog was not in distress. Police did not observe food nor water near the dog at the time. Police were unable to contact the owner.

- A man who was loitering at a Grand Coulee Avenue gas station was banned from the location. The man declined a ride from the officer who had offered the ride because of the -1 degree temperature outside.

1/14 - Grand Coulee Police responded to a trailer park on SR-174 in assistance to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. According to the report, a woman shares an electrical outlet with a neighbor, but the neighbor was using the outlet all to themselves, not sharing it, possibly removing her extension cord, and the woman’s pipes may have frozen as a result. Police spoke to a resident of the neighbor’s trailer but were unable to speak to the renter. Police said to relay the information to the renter to not remove the woman’s extension cord. Police documented the details of the incident.