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Grand Coulee

Police

7/7 - Three cars were reported racing in the alley of Williams Avenue in Electric City, attempting to get air by hitting speed bumps while driving fast. The cars were gone upon police arrival. Suspects were thought by the reporting party to live on Kelso Avenue. 

- A man with dementia walking around Burdin Boulevard was found by police to be doing OK and was going to his nearby home with family. 

7/8 - A door was reported open on a Roosevelt Avenue home. The homeowner was contacted and later reported $1,400 in cash, $100 in coins, and a loose diamond missing from a box, a checkbook, and some medications missing. A neighbor said they saw a blue Dodge truck at the residence for only about 15 minutes.

- A driver was pulled over on Midway Avenue when an officer found the vehicle registered to an unlicensed driver. The driver was indeed unlicensed. She was cited for that and for driving without insurance. She also was violating a no-contact court order in which her passenger, a man, was the one to be protected from her. She was taken to jail for violating the no contact order. 

7/9 - A man was banned from a Second Street address where he was said by the reporting party to not be welcome. Police found the man walking down Burdin Boulevard carrying a small bird. Police told him he shouldn’t have touched the bird, which was young and not injured, and told him about the trespass complaint.

- Two kids ages 13 and 15 were reported to have been riding their dirt bikes on SR-174. Police found them at the Jack’s Spring Canyon gas station. They told police they were camping at Spring Canyon and rode their bikes from there. An officer told them they couldn’t ride unlicensed motorcycles on the highway. The kids called their parents, who came and picked them up.

- A man was banned from a Batchelor Square address where he was said to be causing trouble.

- A man found a plastic container with 10.7 grams of a substance that later tested positive for meth. He turned the container over to police, who entered it into evidence for destruction. 

7/11 - Police spoke to a woman on Roosevelt Drive reported to be loud and playing with fire. She explained they were “throwing fire,” with a fire on the end of a string being spun around in a dance like motion. Police told her to be careful because the area is in high fire danger.

- A man was banned from an Electric Boulevard address after collecting his items from the house of the woman with whom he is going through a divorce.

7/12 - Police responded to an alarm at Les Schwab. An employee arrived at the same time as police and found the lobby door unlocked, possibly just not locked after closing. Security footage didn’t reveal anything unusual.

- A woman was reported to be having a sort of nervous breakdown, banging on the door to the police station. An officer noted she appeared to be on stimulants. She said she was being harassed but provided no details. She asked for a ride to the casino, which an officer refused, saying he wasn’t a taxi. Later, the same woman was issued a public nuisance infraction after it was reported she was drinking a beer near Grand Coulee City Hall and talking to herself. Police told her to pour out her beer, which she refused, and so an officer did it for her. She also didn’t clean up her garbage. She was also banned from Coulee Gas, where she was said to be bothering customers asking for money and beer.

- A storage shed at Banks Lake Golf Course was broken into. Two golf carts were taken out and abandoned on the course. Two other carts, which weren’t supposed to be there, were in the shed. One of the carts left on the course had damage to it consistent with running over golf green flagpoles. Three poles were damaged, valued at $100 each. It appeared the carts had been used to spin “donuts” on the greens. Beer cans were also found on the course.

7/13 - A suspicious vehicle was reported near Martin Road and Hill Avenue because a woman in the van ducked down when the reporting party passed by. Police found a woman and her dog in the van, not committing any crimes.

- A two-car collision at the Four-Corners intersection of SR-174 and SR-155 involved a red Honda Civic and a grey Saturn. A semi-truck in the turn lane obscured the visibility of both drivers, as the Honda pulled into the intersection and the Saturn hit it. The airbag deployed in the Saturn. Its driver went to the hospital saying she had neck and back pain. Damage to the Saturn is estimated at $10,000. Damage to the Honda is estimated at $3,000. No injuries were reported for the driver or the passengers of the Honda.

Coulee Dam

Police

7/11 - After investigating an open garage door and an ajar front door at a Stevens Avenue home where no one was home, police found that a new owner intentionally had left the home that way.

7/12 - A Columbia Avenue woman requested that two people be banned from her home after one of them was pounding on her front door at about 4 a.m.