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2/9 - Choice Auto Group advised police that someone had rolled a tire down the hill into the back of its building, causing an estimated $300 damage. Police could not find the person responsible.

- Police found the gate at the 230 Yard open. The officer closed it and about an hour later found the gate at the 500 Yard open. The officer closed this gate also.

2/10 - A caller told police that someone on Division Street was playing music too loud. Police found a man working on his vehicle with the music going. He turned it down.

- Police referred a call about a possible suicidal person to Tribal Police since the person lived on Gold Lake Road, north of Nespelem.

- A man on Sunset Drive in Electric City complained of a dog constantly whining. Police checked and found the noise was coming from an outbuilding and that the people had just moved into the area.

- Police were asked to stand by at the overlook area just above Grand Coulee Dam by the Bureau of Reclamation because officials there were in the process of dismissing an employee.

- A woman on Granger Avenue reported that someone had entered her house and asked to use her phone and for a gas can. She yelled for the man to leave the house. Police learned of the name of the person and are asking the prosecutor to file charges of residential burglary.

2/11 - An Electric City man told police that he had been threatened because he talked with the sister of the person making the threat. Police said he should try to avoid any fight and suggested he send any information he has in a statement to police.

- A woman on Stevens Avenue in Electric City reported that two of her tires had been slashed, both on the driver’s side. She asked that patrols drive by her place.

2/12 - A Tekoa man was stopped for faulty equipment on his vehicle and told police that he probably shouldn’t be driving because his license was suspended. When asked in which state, he said he thought Idaho, Montana and maybe Washington. He was cited and told not to move his vehicle until he had a licensed driver to do so.

- A man on Roosevelt Drive complained about a barking dog. The officer planned to mail an infraction notice to the owner of the dog, who wasn’t home.

- A person on Hillcrest Place in Electric City told police that two dogs were kept nearby and one of them had his ribs showing. Police contacted a relative of the owner of the one dog and said it stopped eating when the owner was jailed. Police were advised that the dog is being hand fed.

2/13 - Police responded to a call that a man was staggering up the hill by the Visitor Center and had fallen. The man told the officer that his knees were bad, and he was given a lift to his residence at Continental Heights.

- Police were called to Coulee Medical Center because of a possible combative patient. Police had to help restrain the patient until soft restraints were in place.

2/14 - An officer observed an intoxicated woman try to get into a car at closing time at Bank’s Lake Pub. She told the officer that she was not the driver, her sister was. Another woman came to the driver’s door and when asked if she was sober she responded, “Yes, well kind of.” The owner of the Pub took her keys and arranged for another person to take them home.

- Police checked on a man reported as sleeping along the road by Coulee Playland. The officer found the man had been drinking. He stated he had a room in a Coulee Dam motel. A motorist stopped to tell the officer that she had nearly hit the man. The officer gave the man a courtesy ride to his motel.

- Dispatch advised police that there were two people involved in a disturbance on Grand Avenue in Electric City and that one was armed with a knife. Police found the men. Neither was armed, and they were advised to keep the noise down.

2/15 - An officer was flagged down by a man on Electric Boulevard who complained that the woman in the apartment next door was playing music too loud. The officer told her to turn the music down and if he had to return she would be cited.

- Police responded to a request by Coulee Medical Center to be on hand when a tribal ambulance arrived because the patient in the ambulance was combative. Police were there while the man was worked on and left when a second tribal officer arrived.

- A woman on 4th Street NW in Electric City told police that someone had put 71 nails three inches long or longer in her driveway after she left. She told police who she thought might have done it, and police went to the door but no one answered.

- Police stopped a go-cart operating in Electric City at 4th and Sunny Drive and gave a 22-year-old man a ticket for driving on the roadway without proper registration.

- A Keller man was issued a driving under the influence citation after he was stopped for operating his vehicle in Electric City after dark without having his lights on. The police report noted that the man tested well over the legal limit for having consumed alcohol. The man’s vehicle was towed and a relative came for the driver.