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Grand Coulee

Police

2/16 - Police responded to a report of loose pigs on E Street. The owner was told about the loose pigs and corralled them into their enclosure. There is no city ordinance against having “pigs at large”, only for dogs, and so the owner wasn’t ticketed, only warned to keep the pigs on her property.

2/17 - Police received a report that a theft occurred in Coulee City and the suspects were heading towards Grand Coulee in a white Jeep. An officer waited near the causeway and pulled the vehicle over when it drove by. The driver said that he didn’t steal or damage anything A passenger, talking to another officer, explained that she was upset with her former boss for firing her the previous summer, and she’d considered toilet papering his house, but instead hid some of his tools in some bushes. She said they should call the owner and that everything was cleared up before they left. The Lincoln County Jail would not take the suspects who were wanted on separate arrest warrants, and the Grand Coulee officers left after a Grant County deputy arrived and conducted his own interviews of the suspects.

2/18 - A woman on D Street reported stolen packages containing $95 worth of items from Amazon, including a stainless-steel lamp and a handheld vacuum. The caller suspected that the items could have been stolen from a certain somebody but there were no footprints in the snow nor camera footage to confirm her suspicions.

- A landlord of a Burdin Boulevard residence wanted a woman banned from the residence. It was agreed the woman would be picked up by a friend that night or early the next day, but otherwise, if she didn’t leave, since she had been staying there for a few weeks with the man who rents the place, it was technically her residence and the landlord would have to go through the eviction process to remove her. 

- A woman on Weil Place suspected fraud when she didn’t recognize an Amazon charge, but then realized it was she who had made the purchase.

2/19 - A truck that made three passes through the Safeway parking lot before parking was reported as suspicious. The truck was legally parked and unoccupied when police checked.

- People on Roosevelt Drive were reported as swinging fireballs. Police found the people to be on private property, swinging fireballs (a recreational activity involving swinging fire on a rope) in a safe manner.

2/20 - Police were unable to locate a man reported as walking on SR-174 near E Street carrying bolt cutters and copper wire.

2/23 - An officer gave a man a ride to the Coulee Dam Casino from the hospital. He was cold and didn’t know how to get back to Omak, where he lives.

Coulee Dam

Police

2/17 - A man on Central Drive was arrested and taken to Okanogan County Jail for fourth-degree assault after pushing a woman.

2/20 - Police went to Mead Way and Roosevelt Way where a car was parked in the roadway with the lights off. A woman explained that she was in a verbal argument with her boyfriend, who walked off with the car keys. Another person arrived with the keys and the car was moved.

2/21 - A Ford Expedition was pulled over near Columbia and Stevens Avenue for a loud exhaust. The driver said it had fallen off. He was cited for it.