Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

10/30 - A man was reported to look suspicious, measuring things with tools and a ladder outside of a Grand Coulee business. He was simply a contractor doing his job. 

- A Grand Coulee man reported that two pumpkins were stolen from his porch. Security footage showed the pumpkins get taken and placed into a white car that was then parked not too far from his own residence. Police knocked on the door and the culprit answered, admitting to stealing the pumpkins, and was willing to return them. He went to the man’s house, returned the pumpkins, and they shook hands. Everyone was happy and no charges were filed.

- A Grand Coulee man reported a $500 shotgun stolen from a building he owns and uses for storage, but which wasn’t properly secured. Police took note of the serial number and entered it as stolen. The next day, someone came and stole a power tool kept at the same place. Police encouraged the man to properly secure the building. 

- A man and woman were reportedly hitting each other near the senior center. A Grand Coulee and a Coulee Dam officer responded. The man took off on foot. Police were unable to find him in the area. The woman said she had been arguing with her boyfriend but showed no signs of injury. She said nothing physical had occurred. She was given a ride to a relative’s home.

10/31 - A man with autism was sitting on someone’s porch in Coulee Dam. A Grand Coulee officer assisted Coulee Dam Police and a tribal officer in responding to the situation. The man was taken to his relative’s house nearby without incident.

11/1 - A woman was arrested and taken to jail for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, whom she had caught messaging other women. Multiple witnesses said they saw parts of the altercation outside the former middle school. The male showed injuries to the officer. The woman didn’t show signs of injury and admitted to the assault.

11/2 - An officer used pepper spray on a loose and aggressive dog. The owner was told the dog needed to be properly contained.

11/4 - A boy got in trouble for having a toy gun in his backpack while on the school bus. The toy gun was multicolored with an orange tip indicating it was a toy. The toy could be used to launch a small foam projectile. The boy will likely be disciplined by the school as well as his mother. A “risk assessment” was performed by the school.

- An officer spoke to school staff regarding a high school senior who is regularly truant. Family members said the boy is alive and well and prefers to do other things than attend school despite their insisting that he does. They said he is looking at getting his GED. 

11/6 - A Grand Coulee Avenue dog at first thought to have been stolen had simply run off and returned home. Police were not needed.

- A Grand Coulee officer joined a Coulee Dam officer at the school in Coulee Dam where a girl had allegedly assaulted several staff members. She was taken home by a parent.

11/8 - A kid thought missing was found shortly after police received the report. He was with a friend and hadn’t updated his parents.

11/10 - Police found the circumstances strange when a customer was asked to leave a motel on Spokane Way. The customer had requested multiple room changes, complained of temperature issues, including cold tile, requested documents from the motel that simply don’t exist, and generally made the staff uncomfortable. He refused offers to stay one more night in the motel, to have a room paid for at another motel, and courtesy rides from Grand Coulee and Coulee Dam officers who had responded to the situation. No crime was committed. The staff was relieved that the man had left.

11/11 - A woman told police that someone had dumped debris in the Crescent Bay area. She showed police where there was a smashed pumpkin, medium sized. Animals appeared to have eaten from it. Police determined that being that the smashed pumpkin was biodegradable it didn’t post any environmental threat being there.

11/12 - An officer removed a dead deer from the roadway on SR-155 near milepost 21. The deer likely had been struck by a vehicle; however, there was no debris or further evidence of a collision, and the driver hadn’t remained on scene.

- An officer, along with Bureau of Reclamation firefighters, Emergency Medical Service workers, and a Coulee Dam officer, went to North Dam Park where a man was sleeping on the ground in a T-shirt and shorts. There was a bottle of lemonade near him and a torch lighter. He was suspected to have been intoxicated in some way. He was taken to the hospital and released. He was then given a ride home by an officer to a family member’s residence.

Coulee Dam Police

11/6 - A Coulee Dam officer found a bag containing what appeared to be methamphetamine outside of a store on Grand Coulee Avenue in Grand Coulee. He took possession of the drugs to dispose of them properly.

- A Coulee Dam officer and tribal officer responded to a report of two people smoking what could have been meth in a car on Sixth Street in Coulee Dam. No one was in the vehicle. A man came out to the car, however, and didn’t appear to be on drugs. He said he hadn’t been smoking anything.

11/19 - A blue Subaru was reported to have been driving recklessly and doing donuts in the area of Riverview Drive where kids get on the schoolbus. The case was transferred to another agency.

- A Dodge Durango that had caught on fire near Stevens Avenue and Okanogan Avenue was towed from the location.