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8/24 - Grand Coulee Police assisted Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office by responding to a 911 hangup call in the Lakeview Terrace area. A woman had called 911, said she needed help, then hung up. Police found a couple with blood on them both, from minor injuries from a physical altercation. The man was taken to the hospital to be treated before being taken to Lincoln County Jail on assault charges.

- A deer jumped in front of a man’s vehicle as he drove north along SR-155 into Electric City.. He stepped on the brakes to avoid hitting the deer when another vehicle hit him. The driver of that vehicle was cited with a violation of his driver’s permit.

8/25 - Police recognized a man wanted on warrants in the passenger seat of a vehicle that was stopped near Federal Way. He was arrested and taken to jail.

8/26 - An officer responded to a report of a couple arguing on Grand Avenue. A woman was said to be highly intoxicated, and the man, said to be much more calm, told the officer he could go to a friend’s house to separate for the night.

- A woman first said she had been kept captive at a trailer in Electric City, but then admitted that she’d taken meth and that the whole experience may have been a hallucination. She said she would wait for the drug to wear off and would call police back if she still believed the experience had happened.

- A 911 hangup call had something to do with a report of a man with a gun near Crescent Bay. An officer checked near the boat launch and didn’t see any man with a gun, nor did other people in the area. The officer then approached a man wanted on a felony warrant near Pole Park, whom he had observed walking along SR-155 on his way to investigate the possible emergency. The officer knew him to have a history of running from police, which he did, dropping his backpack and cellphone, and running toward Eden Harbor. Police last saw him in the water near the shore, but were unable to locate him. Looking at his cell phone, police discovered it was he who had called 911. The officer requested that the man be charged with false reporting and resisting arrest.

8/27 - An officer saw a truck driving along SR-155. The tail lights weren’t working, and the engine kept revving. The truck made a u-turn and the officer pulled the truck over along Federal Avenue near The Star newspaper. As the officer approached the vehicle, it began to drive away. The officer jumped onto the running boards of the vehicle, yelled at the driver to stop, and eventually reached in and put the vehicle into park as she was slowing down. The woman, observed by the officer to be intoxicated, had mood swings, being angry at the officer at one moment, then trying to hold his hand the next, and trying to kiss on the cheek another officer who arrived on scene. A judge granted the officer a blood warrant for the driver, who had refused other tests. She was taken to the hospital and had blood drawn which was stored as evidence to be tested. The woman was cited for resisting arrest, obstruction, and driving under the influence.

8/28 - People on Goodfellow Avenue retrieved their cat that was trapped in a neighbor’s live trap device. Police told them not to trespass and take their neighbors trap, but to call police if the issue happens again. The officer returned the trap to the neighbor, who said he set the trap because he caught a cat in his chicken coop eating a chicken it had apparently killed. The officer told him to call authorities next time he traps a cat to avoid any disputes with neighbors, and for dangerous animal issues in general.

8/29 - Colville Tribal Mental Health requested a check on the welfare of a woman who lives on Ronald Drive and was said to be hallucinating, seeing demons. No one answered the door when an officer knocked. Another request from Colville Tribal Mental Health happened later, and also the woman reported a man was having a heart attack. The man then called 911 back and said he was fine. This time, police were able to talk to the residents, and the woman was eventually arrested on a warrant and taken to Grant County Jail.

8/31 - A man said there were four men on his rooftop on Coulee Boulevard, whom he told to get down. They gave the man attitude, he said, but complied and got down, saying they were on the roof taking pictures. They left in vehicles the officer was unable to locate, grey Audis or Lexuses.

- Someone reported possible animal cruelty at Sunbanks Lake Resort involving a man and his dog. The subject told an officer his dog had wrapped its chain around its legs, and that he had grabbed it by its collar and yelled at it to listen, then dropped it back on the ground. The officer asked to see the dog, which he described as a happy, friendly dog which didn’t seem afraid of its owner.

9/1 - Suspicious activity was reported around Dill Street and Cole Avenue, where people were said to be yelling and jumping over fences. No one was found in the area.

Coulee Dam

Police

8/27 - A man and woman on Camas Street said their neighbor harasses them, saying, “Get a job!” When an officer arrived to give the pair statement forms, he heard a neighbor say, “get a job,” but couldn’t say which neighbor said it. An officer told the neighbor the pair said it was about the complaint. The man said he never spoke to them, and declined to fill out a statement form.

8/29 - A man was said to have cut internet wires to apartments on Spruce Street. The man is supposed to rewire the wires and charges aren’t being filed.