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4/12 - Police issued a public nuisance infraction to an E Street woman who owns pigs that keep getting loose and into other peoples’ property. The issue is ongoing.

4/13 - The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office pursued a stolen vehicle on “the old Grand Coulee highway.” A Grand Coulee officer was going to assist, but the suspect was in custody of Lincoln County officers prior to the Grand Coulee officer arriving at Road V and Road 52, where the stolen vehicle was stuck in a field.

4/15 - A man was banned from the hospital after reportedly making threatening remarks about the hospital after being unsatisfied with the treatment his girlfriend received there.

- A man reported that someone, possibly his girlfriend, got into his vehicle on Partello Parkway and ripped off his rearview mirror and GPS.

4/16 - Police responded to a 911 call in which a woman thought someone was breaking into her Hill Avenue apartment. It turned out to be her roommate and everything was fine.

- A Roosevelt Drive woman reported someone was on the front of her property going through her belongings. She yelled at the person who got into a red car and left.

- A woman who works at Safeway feels unsafe about a man who seems to only go through her checkout line and ran into her at the gas station and at Walmart in Omak. Police told her about how to get a restraining order. 

- Police stood by at Lakeview Terrace as Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies spoke to the person who reported that a man had argued with the trailer park manager, threatened to burn the place down, and to kill responding officers.

4/17 - The E Street pigs were loose again, eating a neighbor’s flowers. The pigs were taken back to their pen, which they are able to slip out of easily, the officer’s report states.

- A man was cited for driving under the influence after a breathalyzer showed a blood alcohol content of 0.18, above the 0.08 state limit. The man was pulled over after driving in the turn lane on Midway Avenue for about a third of a mile before merging into the correct lane without using a turn signal near the intersection of SR-155 and SR-174.