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7/23 - An officer who was asked by an unknown person to check on the welfare of some chickens on Stevens Avenue in Electric City found the animals to be in good health.

- A Spokane woman’s car was damaged in a hit-and-run incident at the La Presa restaurant parking lot. Video surveillance showed a man carrying a child get into a black Ford pickup truck and strike the vehicle, but the footage wasn’t high enough quality to read the license plate. Damage to the vehicle, a dent on the rear passenger side door, was estimated at $500.

- Three officers responded to a call made at the Grand Coulee Library where a man from Shoreline, Washington was yelling at patrons, blocking the entrance, and wanting to fight officers. The officers spoke with the driver, a woman, who said she has been trying to get him to go to rehab. Officers arrested the man for disorderly conduct and intimidating a public servant after the man refused to calm down and continued to threaten officers.

- An Electric City man was taken to Grant County Jail on charges of kidnapping, burglary, assault, and attempted vehicle assault after allegedly threatening his separated wife and her boyfriend with a knife and baseball bat before punching her, dragging her into his car and driving off while trying to hit the boyfriend.

7/24 - A teenage boy who lives on Bowen Street was located nearby and returned home after telling his mother he was running away during an argument over homework.

- An officer assisted Douglas County in responding to a car that had caught on fire on SR-174. The owner was able to get the fire out, and the officer provided information on services in Grand Coulee and gave him water until a tow truck arrived.

7/25 - A 911 hangup call from Sunbanks Lake Resort may have just been an employee dialing out, an employee said. The phone system at the resort requires someone to dial 91 before dialing out.

7/26 - An officer determined that a man was not trespassing on an Electric City property, and that he was just dropping some things off, as he claimed. The officer, unable to contact the property owner, had prior knowledge of the man having lived at the property previously.

7/27 - An Electric City woman contacted police to report a call, which she knew to be a fraud, requesting money from her lest she be charged by the United States Department of Treasury.

- An officer suggested a charge of harassment for an Almira man who allegedly left threatening notes on the car of an ex-girlfriend. The man was banned from the woman’s home and told not to have contact with her. The officer suggested that she have an anti-harassment order put in place.

- The Electric City Bar & Grill told an officer that their live band was wrapping up for the night close to midnight after the officer responded to a noise complaint.

- A woman, stopped on SR-155 for having a headlight out, was found to have a suspended license. An officer replaced the headlight bulb, provided by the driver, who said she would sleep in her car, along with her already sleeping baby, and call someone to drive her car for her in the morning.

7/28 - Police responded to a noise complaint on Burdin Boulevard, where a group of people were reportedly being loud and urinating in the yard. The officer told a group of males about the complaint; they apologized and said they would go inside and be quiet.

- An officer took photos of footprints in the dirt at a Weil Place residence. The footprints appeared to have walked from her driveway, to a window, and back. The woman who reported the incident had been awakened by her dog.

- A man wanted on unspecified warrants was taken to Grant County Jail after being seen near Coulee Medical Center.

- A witness on Prims Place stated she saw a man hold a white purse outside of the car he was driving while talking to a woman walking down the road. When the woman tried to reach for the purse, the man would drive off. The woman then jumped in the passenger side of the car and began to hit the man as the vehicle drove off. The officer was unable to locate the vehicle.

- An officer checked on a report of yelling at a Palmer Street residence. A man was yelling at his ex-girlfriend, who was on the phone with her new boyfriend. The yelling woke up their children. The woman took the children to her parents’ house to stay the night.

7/29 - Hospital staff thought it could have been a patient who dialed a 911 hangup call. The staff said they would go room to room to figure out who if it happened again.

- A Dill Avenue man reported that a man in a neighbor’s house approached him with a stick before the complainant pulled out his pistol, effectively diffusing the situation. The suspect had been staring at the man through a window, of which he took a photo. The suspect then became angry and came outside with the stick, described as about 5 feet long, and said “let’s do this” to the man who pulled out his pistol. The man with the stick left. The officer was able to identify the man after talking with the occupants of the house he was in, and recommended that a charge of “brandishing a weapon capable of harm” be filed against him.

- A chainsaw was reported stolen, sometime within the past month, from an unlocked tool shed on Kelso Avenue.

- A maroon Suburban was stolen from the H&H Grocery parking lot after the owner left the motor running when he went in to buy some water and cigarettes. The vehicle was believed to have been northbound.

7/30 - A Grand Coulee woman said that her son’s girlfriend, who was intoxicated, made a threatening remark before leaving the complainant’s house. The girlfriend then left 30 voicemails and sent 219 text messages to the woman’s phone. The woman wanted the incident documented and was told to save those message in case of the need for a harassment order.

- An officer took a picture of a “brodie,” a circle spun in the gravel parking lot with a vehicle, at the Grant County Mosquito District building in Electric City.

- A German shepherd was found at Electric City Hall, and the owner located on a nearby street.

- A man reported for yelling at his niece on Stevens Avenue was yelling at her because she broke a fan. The officer noted that the niece seemed happy and that she said she wasn’t disciplined in any other way.

- A Coulee Dam man was taken to Grant County Jail on unspecified warrants after police saw him walking near Crescent Bay.

- An intoxicated man was banned from Pepper Jack’s after pushing a waitress who refused to serve him alcohol before he left. The officer also told the man’s girlfriend about him being banned, wanting someone sober to have the information. The girlfriend said she was going to take the man home to sleep off the alcohol, which the officer felt was a good idea.