Coulee Cops

Coulee Dam Police

6/3 - An Electric City woman broke a man’s windshield with a shovel because she was mad at him. The woman admitted to hitting the windshield and told police she wanted him off of her property. The man chose not to press charges.

6/4 - The town of Coulee Dam received a fake $100 bill for a utility payment. The bill was marked as for “motion picture purposes.” The person who used the bill said he had received the bill from someone for lawn mowing services. He contacted police on a later date and explained his girlfriend had received two fake bills as payment from someone she had sold something to and that he had paid for the lawn mowing services using one of the bills. He gave the other bill to police, who noted that it was hyper realistic so it was easy to see why someone wouldn’t think twice about using it as legal tender.

- A Birch Street man told police his ex-girlfriend had stolen earrings from him worth about $100 when she had collected her belongings from him. She had previously accused him of getting the earrings from another woman. When he asked her about the earrings she showed them to him and said he wouldn’t be getting them back. He said he didn’t want to press charges as long as she gave the earrings to law enforcement when contacted. Police saw her walking between Electric City and Grand Coulee the next day wearing the earrings. She gave them to police who returned them to the man.

6/5 - Police checked on a residence on Roosevelt Avenue in Electric City where someone had reported the water had been on for two days and no one was around. Police knocked, then entered the home and saw that no one was there. They secured the home and turned off the water.

- An officer responded to the Columbia River bridge in Coulee Dam where two men were reportedly intoxicated and walking in and out of traffic. An officer saw the men on the sidewalk of the bridge, clearly intoxicated, with one of them gesturing toward vehicles and then falling down. The officer observed them for a time and determined no crime was being committed in his presence and elected not to contact the men who both showed a “hostile demeanor” towards the officer when they saw him.

6/6 - An officer stood by at a Camas Street residence while a Child Protective Services worker interviewed a parent.

- Police received a report of a woman on Kelso Avenue being covered in oil and speaking in a foreign language on her property. Police chose not to respond as there wasn’t a crime being committed but later saw her boyfriend who said she was OK and had been covered in oil because they had been working on a vehicle.

6/7 - A report was filed for a road rage incident at Les Schwab in Grand Coulee but no further details were included in the report. 

- A Coulee Dam officer assisted a Grand Coulee officer at a Yakima Street address in Grand Coulee where an overdose was reported. A woman there was conscious and breathing and evaluated by ambulance personnel before declining to be taken to the hospital.