Coulee Cops

Coulee Dam

Police

9/8 - An officer went to an SR-174 address in Douglas County and stood by while a Douglas County deputy investigated a burglary report. 

9/10 - While parked near River Drive and 11th Street in Coulee Dam, an officer clocked a vehicle going 35 miles per hour in the 20 miles per hour school zone. The speed limit outside of the school zone is 30 miles per hour. The vehicle was pulled over. The driver said he normally goes 30-35 mph in that area. He told the officer that he doesn’t drink but the officer smelled alcohol and noted bloodshot eyes. The officer conducted field sobriety tests on the driver who then refused to give a breath sample, but had given the officer enough reason to believe he was intoxicated and shouldn’t be driving. He was taken to the police station where he then gave breath samples all around 0.12, over the 0.08 limit. He was taken to Okanogan County Jail for driving under the influence and his vehicle was towed. 

9/11 - Police investigated a report of a vehicle prowl on Cedar Street. A resident had seen someone leave after tampering with a vehicle at an abandoned house. Police were provided with photos of the suspect the vehicle left in. Police pulled the vehicle over on Elmer City Access Road and the driver and passenger laughed and said they thought someone might call. They said they had permission from a man to get what they needed from the vehicle they were at on Cedar Street. Police confirmed this by calling the man, who explained his significant other owned the property and they had permission to get what they needed from the vehicle on Cedar Street. No crime had been committed. 

9/12 - Coulee Dam Police assisted Grand Coulee Police at a Grand Coulee Avenue address where a woman was reported as possibly waving a gun around. No gun was visible to the Coulee Dam officer at the scene. The woman’s daughter was allowed to go stay at a family friend’s, saying that she was stressed out by her mother.

- A report was filed related to weapons/firearms in Coulee Dam with no further details as to the nature of the situation.

9/13 - On a 911 hangup call a woman said “my boyfriend” before the call ended. The call pinged from the main lodge at SunBanks Lake Resort. There police spoke to a woman with a bloody lip. She explained that she was arguing with her boyfriend and was going to light her truck on fire, believing it was bad luck, and attempted to light a towel on fire to throw into the truck when her boyfriend intervened, stopped her from doing so, and left the resort in the truck. Police were unable to find or speak to the man at the time of the report. He may face a charge for domestic violence.

- Security footage showed a man pull up to the gas station in Coulee Dam at about 3 a.m. in a tan pickup, get out, and attempt to enter the closed station through a rollup shop door and the main door. Police were also told he attempted to enter an employee’s vehicle. Nothing was taken in the incident but the situation is being investigated. Police were unable to see a license plate number on the vehicle the suspect drove up in.

9/14 - Police assisted a man renting property on Kelso Avenue with the procedure for removing a junk vehicle he had permission to remove from the property. The vehicle will be towed. 

9/15 - Police took photos of squalid living conditions in a Roosevelt Avenue basement where a woman has allowed a couple and their newborn to live. The officer requested a state employee perform a welfare check as the living conditions appeared very unsuitable for the baby.

Grand Coulee

Police

9/5 - Police spoke with a woman who had driven “donuts” in her truck near the Center Lodge then parked at her nearby home. She was sober and admitted she had performed the donuts and had been blowing off steam due to recent frustrating circumstances for her. She was cited for reckless driving. Police also spoke to a witness who felt that her actions posed a safety risk. 

9/6 - Police didn’t hear or see any barking dogs in the Roosevelt Drive area after receiving a complaint from someone concerned the dogs may not have food and water. Police surmised the owner must have taken the dogs inside.

- Two fishermen were asked to leave an area they were fishing at after dark on a bank along the canal. They did so and were friendly and cooperative, unaware that the lake was closed after dark.

- Police spoke to a man on Spokane Way who had a bloody lip and abrasions on his face. He explained that while walking his girlfriend to her home at the Spring Canyon apartments, he got into a fight with her “baby daddy,” who also lives there. He didn’t wish to press charges and was given a ride home. Police then spoke to the other man at the apartments who said he was approached by the boyfriend who shoved him and he shoved him back. Police observed blood on the doorstep. That man didn’t wish to press charges either.

9/7 - A Spokane Way dog owner told police he was informed his dog bit someone and he wanted to surrender it or have it put down and that he was also in the process of moving. Police told him he could surrender the dog to a place in Moses Lake.

- A woman said that a Burdin Boulevard dog bit her on the leg, although there wasn’t a mark, and she expressed fear of walking past the dog’s residence again. Police approached the home owner and a bull mastiff-type dog charged the officer who sprayed the dog with pepper spray, causing it to run away. Police told the dog owner the dog needed to be tied up or otherwise properly contained.

9/8 - A Butler Square woman swore she heard a voice speaking softly coming from her back porch. Police told her to go wait in her car until police arrived. Once there, police checked inside the home and the back yard, finding nothing amiss. The woman then checked to make sure nothing was missing. Nothing was. Police made sure she locked her doors before leaving.

- Someone was concerned that a camper parked near the 230kV switchyard on SR-174 could be terrorists and not campers. Police spoke to the campers, who said they saw the spot as being a free camping spot on a website, but that they would pack up and leave.

9/9 - Police were told of an individual on Bureau of Reclamation property on SR-174 near Switchyard Road who wasn’t supposed to be there. Police stopped the man’s vehicle and were told by the chief of security that the man couldn’t collect his belongings and was to work from home until further notice. Police relayed this to the man.

9/11 - Police went to Weil Place on a report of a possible overdose. There was no overdose, just a drunken boyfriend and girlfriend. The boyfriend wanted to be left alone by his girlfriend.

9/12 - A man carrying a machete was seen two houses down from a Yakima Street residence from which he isn’t allowed to be within 1,000 feet. Police didn’t see the suspect who could face a no-contact order violation charge.

9/13 - Someone heard loud noises, possibly gunshots, and a vehicle driving crazily with screeching tires near the Four Corners area. A Coulee Dam officer told a Grand Coulee officer that he had recently performed a traffic stop on some young men driving cars with loud mufflers that likely had caused the loud noises. The Grand Coulee officer checked the surrounding area but didn’t see anything suspicious.