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Grand Coulee

Police

9/25 - A Nespelem woman was cited for failing to stop at intersections and for not having insurance. She told police she was in a hurry to pick up her children.

- Plant Protection advised police that there was a van with California plates full of people at the 230Kv switchyard. They were gone when police arrived.

Two Coulee Dam residents were advised that they could not fish after hours at west North Dam. The two left without incident.

9/26 - A man told police that he was over the fog line because he “was just looking around.” He was cited for not having insurance and was told to watch the roadway.

9/27 - A woman reported damage to her vehicle while it was parked at Electric City Bar and Grill and said that she thought she knew who had backed into her. Police checked the vehicle suspected of backing into her and the two exchanged insurance information.

- A woman reported that a suspicious man was tearing apart electronic equipment and taking the parts. She stated that no assistance from police was necessary.

- Police checked on a report of a fight between two brothers at a Jackson Street residence in Electric City. The younger of the two, a juvenile, was determined to be the primary agressor, and a report is being sent to Grant County juvenile authorities for possible action.

- Two people from Denmark were advised that they could not camp at the lower parking lot at the Visitor Center.

- A man from Spokane Valley told police that he was walking off the effects of alcohol when the officer checked on a vacated truck belonging to him.

- 9/28 - Police checked on a loud explosion in the Crown Point area and the officer determined that it might have been a muzzle loader involved in deer hunting.

- A man who complained of chest pains was taken by ambulance to Coulee Medical Center.

9/29 - A safe was taken from the A. J. Gerard office in Electric City. Police stated there didn’t appear to be forced entry into the building. It was reported that the safe contained about $1,500.

10/1 - An Electric City man told police that one of the units of a storage area he owns had been broken into. He said he was unable to reach the party that rented the space and had put his own padlock on the unit.

- A woman burning tree limbs and garden waste on Weil Street was told to put out the fire. She wanted to add more material to the fire but was instructed to put the fire out because outdoor burning is illegal.

- Police went to an overlook of Grand Coulee Dam where they found a woman walking with her bags. She explained that she was ending a five-year relationship and wanted to get to a place where she could arrange transportation to Montana where she lived. Police took the woman to Four Corners so she could arrange transportation.

10/2 - A woman who had been working on a residence on Center Street reported to police that someone had broken down the door and taken a motorcycle from inside the house. The motorcycle was valued at $250 and damage to the door $400.

- A woman on Young Street complained that a neighbor’s dogs barked when she was outside. She told police that she planned to be outside winterizing her home and didn’t want to hear the dogs bark.

10/3 - An Electric City woman told police that someone had hacked her Paypal, business and credit card accounts and made purchases on them. She advised that she thought it was her husband’s girlfriend who had done the hacking. Her husband stated to police that the woman had permission to sell some items of his and put the money in his Paypal account. Police are checking on it. Later police came to the location on a domestic violence call. Her husband was arrested and taken to Grant County Jail.

- Nurses at Coulee Medical Center asked that a man who was visiting a patient and acting strangely be banned from the facility. Police were looking for the man to advise him to not return.

- A Grand Coulee man told police that a white SUV pulled out of the Electric City Bar and Grill parking lot, traveled beside him all the way to Coulee Playland and then hit his vehicle and traveled off. He said the damage was about $600.

10/4 - An Electric City couple reported that their vehicle had been stolen. The Washington State Patrol advised that the vehicle had been found and impounded.

- A man turned in a bag of material he said was found near the Spring Canyon boat launch. He said he couldn’t find a ranger to give the material to so brought it to the police station.

- A man incarcerated at Grant County Jail asked police to check on a woman who wasn’t answering her phone. Police checked and found the woman was OK and advised the jail.

10/6 - Two Electric City residents were cited for hunting inside the city limits. They told police that a Fish & Wildlife official had given them permission to hunt there. Police contacted the official who denied that he had said it was OK to hunt there.

- Damage to the car wash at Jack’s Service at Four Corners was reported to police. A clerk at the store said that a man had asked for a refund, and then he saw him back at the car wash. There was no report of the amount of damage.

- The owner of a storage shed in Grand Coulee reported that someone had broken into one of the units. It wasn’t apparent that anything had been taken.

Coulee Dam

Police

9/28 - A man who had offered to buy some boys a soda was checked out by an officer after receiving a complaint from someone at Harvest Foods. The man, who was in a van, said he observed three boys buy one soda and he was trying to see that they all had their own sodas.

9/29 - Police checked on a report of lights on in the Mormon church. The officer found that the lights just outside the door were on, and all doors were locked.

9/30 - It was reported that there were two men sitting at a picnic table in Douglas Park smoking marijuana. The officer found the two men, who admitting smoking marijuana. They were told it was legal to have marijuana but illegal to smoke it in public.

- A woman on Walnut Street stated that she had loaned her grandparent’s car to her boyfriend so he could go to Omak, but he hadn’t returned. The officer explained that the owner of the car would have to sign the stolen vehicle form. They were in Spokane at the time. Later, her boyfriend called and said the car was in Reardan and he didn’t have money for gas. He was told to leave the vehicle there and one of the grandparents would pick it up when they returned from Spokane.

- An officer explained to a driver that you don’t ease your vehicle through the stop sign at Mead Way and Fir Street. The driver got a warning.

10/3 - An officer advised a homeowner that a tent trailer parked on Central Drive was impairing the vision of school bus drivers. The person shut the door in the face of the officer. Later an officer returned to the location and saw a male who walked into the house and refused to come to the door. Police attached a violation to the trailer and the resident was given 36 hours to move it.

10/4 - An officer was called to the sidewalk in front of Harvest Foods where there was a report of domestic violence. The officer found three individuals, reportedly intoxicated, but no evidence of any violence.

- Police were called to a residence on Stevens Avenue where there was a report of a domestic violence incident. Police found a woman being treated for a wrist problem who said that a man had forced his way into the house, causing her to fall on her wrist. The two had been out to eat and had been drinking. Police arrested the man and he is being charged with fourth-degree domestic violence.