Coulee Cops

Coulee Dam Police

7/7- Police told people playing loud music near a Banks Lake boat launch along SR-155 near milepost nine to turn the music down as they were disturbing others.

- An officer assisted emergency medical services in getting someone on Kelso Avenue suffering from an overdose into an ambulance.

7/9 - Police were told that a Kelso Avenue residence was using water from hoses attached to faucets near storage units on Coulee Boulevard. Police contacted the owner of the storage units who spoke to the people using the water and told them not to do so. He also told police he would lock the faucets. No charges were filed. 

7/10 - Reports were filed for separate incidents on this date noting the nature of the crime and location but without further details yet. The incidents include a theft at Coulee Playland, a found person at the elementary school, and a 911 hangup call on Dill Avenue in Grand Coulee connected to an assault offense and an injury of some kind.

7/11 - Police told a man sleeping on a porch on Coulee Boulevard that no one was supposed to be on that property. The man said he understood and packed up his belongings. Police learned he had been reported as a missing person and relayed that he is fine. The man said he hasn’t spoken to his mother in some time. Police told him he should get in touch with her to let her know he is okay. A short time later, the man was back on the porch with another man there as well. Police warned them not to come back or be charged with trespassing. 

- Police were going to check on a Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy who was at a residence on Rex Road and was not responding on the radio. Another officer relayed that the deputy didn’t have service at the location and was not in need of assistance. 

- A Coulee Dam officer assisted a Grand Coulee officer in locating a vehicle with plates registered to a Honda Civic but affixed to a Honda Accord. The vehicle had apparently been trying to avoid law enforcement by going behind the grain silos near the hospital, then coming out near the gravel parking lot by North Dam Park. The vehicle was eventually stopped at Section Place and Spokane Way after not yielding at first to the Grand Coulee officer pulling it over. The Coulee Dam officer assisted with the stop. Three people were in the vehicle. The Grand Coulee officer found that the vehicle had been stolen and that there was also drug paraphernalia inside of it. He took the driver into custody. The car was to be impounded so a search warrant could be approved to search the vehicle further.

- Police received a report of a shirtless man pulling a wagon and throwing items into the roadway of SR-155 near Sunbanks Lake Resort. Police believe, based on the description, that it could have been the same man who had been told to leave a porch he was sleeping on earlier. Police saw personal toiletries, clothes, and food in the road, but a search didn’t result in finding the man or any other suspects.

- A white SUV was reportedly leaving the parking lot of the casino, driving over a parking barrier, damaging it, and pushing it onto Birch Street before heading down 6th Street. Police searched for the vehicle but didn’t find it. The barrier was moved back into the casino parking lot. The casino was told about the damage. Since the damage occurred on casino property, the case would have to be handled by tribal police from there on out.

7/12 - A resident saw and identified a man as trespassing in a shed near 4th Street and Sunny Drive in Electric City, from where he had already recently been banned. An officer noted blankets and other items in the shed. A Grand Coulee officer contacted the man outside of Safeway, and the Coulee Dam officer went there to speak to the man, as well. The man was clearly intoxicated on some kind of chemical substance and said he had purchased the property and fought it in court. He was charged with criminal trespassing. The Coulee Dam officer asked the jail, which often has booking restrictions, to make a booking exception for the man because of regular trespassing complaints but the jail denied the request, so the man was free to go. 

- Tribal police requested assistance removing an intoxicated person from someone’s yard on 6th Street. Both tribal police and the Coulee Dam officer were busy with other calls. The officer later learned that the person had left the yard.

7/13 - A man reported a German shepherd running loose near the school in Coulee Dam. The tag on the collar only had initials and there isn’t animal control in the area. The man asked if he could take the dog home to keep it cool and give it water. Police said he could do that since he had social media and could use it to try and find the owner of the dog.

- Police stood by while a man and woman collected their belongings from a Hillcrest Residence where they no longer wanted to stay.