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Grand Coulee Police

11/16 - Police assisted law enforcement officers from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and the Washington State Patrol with a vehicle that was not pulling over for a Grant County officer while heading north from Coulee City and travelling at speeds as high as 110 miles per hour. The vehicle eventually pulled over near milepost seven along SR-155. The driver and passenger, two men, both appeared intoxicated. There were empty beer bottles in their car. The WSP trooper processed the driver for driving while intoxicated and the passenger was taken to Grand Coulee, where he had family somewhere in the area, and released.

11/17 - A vehicle leaving the Union 76 gas station was pulled over because the driver had a suspended license and required an ignition interlock device, which was missing. She was cited for those offenses and the vehicle was towed.

- A woman reported fraudulent charges on her credit card from “Galaxy Pizza” in Coulee Dam from $7 to $14. The officer explained that it was probably the Galaxy Smoke Shop. The woman then realized they were her own charges. 

11/18 - Police conducted a requested check on the welfare of an elderly woman on Electric Boulevard but found that she wasn’t home.

- Police checked on a man wrapped in a blanket near Coulee View Road and SR-155. The man only wanted assistance if he could be driven to Coulee City, which the officer did not do. 

- Police told a Miller Avenue woman that they couldn’t control her neighbors turning on and off their lights and suggested she ignore them, which she said she would do.

11/19 - An A Street woman was irritated when officers came to her home about a barking dog complaint. She said other dogs in the area also bark. While she was talking with police, a neighbor was outside and told her to put a muzzle on her dog, to which the woman replied, “I’ll put a muzzle on you!” Police de-escalated that argument quickly, the report says. The woman said she’d try to keep her dog quiet. Prior to arriving at the woman’s house, the police report notes, neither officer heard the dog barking.

11/20 - Police responded to Roosevelt Drive, where a verbal argument occurred between a woman and man at around 4 a.m. The man allegedly threw a package of wipes at the woman after being told not to come home that day, but the package missed her. 

- An Electric City man turned in keys found on SR-155 near Sunbanks Resort.

- A man on Kelso Avenue was reported as performing “burnouts” in his truck in front of a woman’s home and wouldn’t stop when asked. The man said he was working on the truck and the “burnouts” were accidental. The man was told to stop, and that he couldn’t drive until he got a license anyway. The man said he understood.

11/21 - A husband and wife got into an argument because the man was playing his music too loud in his shop while his wife was trying to sleep. The man was annoyed and turned the bedroom light on and off. The man agreed to keep his music down and to let her sleep. 

11/22 - A Coulee Boulevard apartment resident said he would keep his music down following a complaint. An officer noted the music seemed to be a normal volume when he arrived at the residence. 

Coulee Dam Police

11/15 - A speed reader sign near Central and Crest Drive was reported blown open by the wind. The city public works department was told of the situation. 

11/16 - Police investigated a report of fighting at the River Drive apartments at about 4:45 a.m. People in one apartment said they had been playing video games and were about to go to bed when they thought they heard some fighting or arguing in the hallway between some people who left the area. 

11/19 - A man was said to have fallen and appeared passed out on a porch on Fir Street. Police searched the area but didn’t see the man. There was some change and a pack of chewing tobacco on the sidewalk nearby.