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10/6 - An officer in pursuit of a vehicle that failed to stop at an intersection reported that his patrol car struck a small animal, thought to be a cat. Later, after dealing with the stop sign violator he returned to the area and looked all over for the animal but couldn’t find it. An hour later a member of the city staff received a call from the veterinary clinic that an elderly lady had dropped off an injured cat and was told the police would pay the bill on the cat. The officer stated that he didn’t agree to pay a veterinary bill and never talked with an elderly lady.

- Police checked on a report of an assault of a youth on Kelso in Electric City and found that some boys had been jumping onto a mattress. The boy who allegedly was assaulted was climbing up on the roof of a shed and sliding down on the mattress. Police took a statement from those involved.

10/7 - Plant Protection was notified that an officer had followed tire tracks on a transmission road but couldn’t find the vehicle that was making the tracks.

10/8 - Mental Health asked for assistance in locating a man that left Coulee Medical Center during treatment. The man was located and brought back to the hospital and was confined while waiting for a mental health professional. The man became agitated and was strapped to the bed and during the wait allegedly assaulted the officer. He was taken to Grant County Jail and while enroute escaped his seatbelt and later when he was received at the jail continued to give trouble. He was strapped into a “crisis chair” and the local officer left.

10/10 - A Nespelem man who parked in Pole Park after hours because he could get cell service there was told it was after hours for that location and he would have to leave. He left.

- A man from Weil Place reported a theft and when the officer arrived he told him that he had been drinking the night before and that he found the missing items at the other end of the sofa.

- A Gig Harbor motorcyclist pulled off in a restricted area to shed some clothes and was told he couldn’t park there. He took off.

- An open door at Center School attracted vandals who poured sugar on the floor in the teacher lounge and broke out a window.

10/11 - A man told police that he loaned out a vehicle to a man who was supposed to return it in just a few minutes. Police finally tracked down the vehicle in the parking lot of an apartment complex.

- Two people who were seen at the waterfall behind the Bureau of Reclamation administration building were advised that the area was off limits. The grandfather of one of the individuals was called and came for the two juveniles.

- A 15-year-old youth with a Spokane address was confronted by police after hearing that he had climbed up on the fence near the top of the dam and stated that he was going to jump. Police found the boy at Riley Point and learned that he had some issues that should be addressed by a mental health expert. He was taken to Coulee Medical Center to see a mental health person.

10/12 - A Kennewick woman and a Quincy man were arrested at the Coulee Dam Casino at the request of Ephrata police. They allegedly were in possession of, and had used, cards stolen from a purse in Ephrata. Both were taken to the Grant County Jail.

- An Ellensburg woman ran off the road at Northrup Road NE and had already called for a tow when police arrived.

- Officers responded to a domestic violence call on Burdin Boulevard, where a woman said that a man took her phone away when she tried to call 911. The man had fled by the time the officers arrived.

- A 35-year-old man was allegedly caught inside the main lodge at Sunbanks Lake Resort stealing a pack of cigarettes. He told police that he knew where the key to the lodge door was and used it to gain entrance. He was a part-time employee of the resort and lived in Grand Coulee. He was arrested, taken to Grant County Jail, and is being charged with second-degree burglary and third-degree theft.