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Police

10/20 - A woman reported that a red vehicle was going down Burdin Boulevard with the driver yelling and honking the horn. Police found the driver and she said she was just looking for her boyfriend and admitting that she had been drinking. She called her brother to come pick her up so she wouldn’t be driving anymore.

- Officers saw several women around a red vehicle in the Safeway parking lot playing loud music and hollering. When the vehicle started to move one of the women got up on the hood. The officers checked the driving status of the woman driving and it showed she was suspended. A licensed driver took over the vehicle.

- An officer checked on a 911 hang up call on W. Cardinal Road and learned that a man who had been banned from the property had been there and involved in an argument. Those at the house were informed that they should call the police if the man returned.

- A man from Batchelor Square asked police to check on the mother of his child who had left the state against a court order. The woman was traced to South Dakota, and then to San Antonio, Texas. Police were still trying to get other law enforcement agencies to assist in contacting the woman.

10/21 - Police assisted as a federal officer served a summons to an Electric City man to appear before the Federal Magistrate’s Court in Spokane.

10/22 - Police investigated a two-vehicle collision at the corner of Spokane Way and Main Street. There were no injuries.

10/23 - Flo’s Cafe reported that someone had entered the restaurant and taken receipts of about $900. The official also noted that about $90 in a wounded veterans relief jar was taken.

- Police were asked to check on the welfare of two children on Yakima Street. The officer found one of the children at that location and was told that the other child was with its mother.

- A Grant County Sheriff’s deputy asked police here to check on a vehicle that had been used in a burglary in Ephrata. An Electric City resident who had picked up a backpack in Ephrata earlier looked through it but wasn’t able to locate camera equipment that had been stolen.

- Coulee Playland reported that someone had cut the gas line on the fish barge and taken about 25 gallons of gas.

10/24 - Police were advised that there was a dog loose, dragging a leash. The animal was found near Pole Park, and when the officer opened the door to his patrol car the dog jumped in.

10/25 - A woman in a Continental Heights apartment was yelling from her balcony. Police were told the woman wasn’t taking her medications.

- Police checked on a suspicious person standing by his truck near the metal recycling center in the USBR industrial yard. While enroute the officer was told that it was a man blowing out the sprinklers in the area.

Coulee Dam

Police

10/21 - The driver of a Nespelem Head Start bus advised police that she was concerned about a car that kept honking the horn and then sped around her while she was waiting for a child. She took the license number and gave it to police, who are investigating.

10/22 - A woman on Camas Street told police that her estranged husband was trying to call her, even though she had a restraining order against him. Police went by and took photographs for a record of the call.

10/23 - Police checked on their own alarm that was going off. There was no evidence of anyone entering the police department.

10/24 - The woman on Camas who had reported that her estranged husband had tried to call her even though she had a restraining order against him, was called again, this time from a pay phone near the Grand Coulee Safeway.

- Lake Roosevelt High School officials reported that one student, a girl, had bitten another student, a boy, after he tried to take some candy away from her. The incident report is being sent to the Okanogan County Prosecutor’s Office.