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1/12 - A Burdin Boulevard woman reported that a neighbor had the trunk of his vehicle open and was putting plastic bags in it. She was told the police would add extra patrols to the area.

1/13 - A Grand Coulee man who had been banned from Safeway two weeks ago for threatening store employees came into the store, and staff called the police. He was gone by the time police arrived but an officer went to his home to talk with him. The officer asked him to come outside and talk and the report stated he replied, “uh, no thanks.” When the man tried to close the door the officer got handcuffs on him, arrested him and took him to Grant County Jail.

- Police assisted Tribal police in Elmer City who were trying to arrest a combative inmate from the Tribal Corrections facility. Police had the man pinned to a bed and finally were able to get him to a patrol car. He had told the officers that he wasn’t going back to jail, the report noted, and that if he did he would kill himself.

- Police delivered a no-contact court order to a man on Goodfellow Avenue in Electric City. He was told to read the order and abide by it.

- A Grand Coulee woman told police that her billfold was missing. She said that she had shopped at Safeway and the next morning when she looked for her billfold, it was missing. Safeway’s lost and found said the billfold hadn’t been turned in. She was told to let her credit card companies know of the loss.

1/14 - A resident in a Continental Heights apartment told police that a woman knocked on her door and called her names because someone was taking up two parking places. Police contacted the woman and told her to contact the apartment manager and quit harassing the tenant.

1/15 - A person on Mead Avenue reported that a woman repeatedly drove by their residence and shouted profanities, causing a scuffle to ensue. The resident plans to ask the court for an anti-harassment order.

- A man living on “A” Street returned home after a long absence to find that his home had been broken into and all rooms left in disarray. Among items missing were stereo equipment, a couple of generators, fishing equipment, and an outboard motor.

1/16 - An Everett driver was stopped when an officer noticed that a passenger wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. The driver couldn’t produce registration or proof of insurance and was cited. The passenger from Elmer City was cited on the seatbelt incident.

1/17 - Safeway called police to report that a clerk had taken in a counterfeit $1 bill. The bill is being held as evidence.

- Police checked on an animal-cruelty report of a dog left in a cage in the back of a pickup. Police found that the dog had blankets but its water source was frozen. When confronted, the owner of the dog said it was his truck dog and became belligerent when police said the water in the dog’s pan was frozen. No action was taken,

1/18 - Frost on trees near Pole Park was causing limbs to drop down on power lines, causing an electrical arc. The Bureau of Reclamation was notified.

- Police noticed that a window of a business on Midway Avenue was broken. The owner of the business, who lives on the west side of the state, asked police to place a caution tape across the window and that he would call and have it fixed in the morning.

1/19 - A Hill Avenue man was struck by a beer bottle and suffered a cut below his eye. Police stated that the man thought he was struck by a man from Nespelem who had forced his way into the home. Police tried to get the man to go to the hospital and have it checked but he refused to do so.

- Police checked on a woman living in Continental Heights who had threatened to hang herself. Police checked on her and asked her to go to the hospital and be checked out. She agreed to do so and a mental health official was called.