Grand Coulee Police

8/23 - Police checked on children alone in a running car at Safeway. The oldest child was 11. Two other kids were there, one of them asleep. The oldest child said their mom had run into the store a few minutes earlier. The mother came out and said she didn’t want to wake the sleeping child and was just in the store for a moment. She left the air conditioner on, so it wouldn’t get too hot in the car. Police warned her it’s a misdemeanor to leave children under age 16 in a running car, but understood she was just looking out for her children by leaving the car running for the air conditioner to run.

- A vehicle collided with a guardrail near Coulee Playland. A witness said a woman got out and said something to the effect of “I can’t get another DUI,” then left the scene of the accident. Police found a pay stub with a woman’s name on it known to drive the vehicle. Police were unable to locate her but did speak to her daughter. The woman’s cell phone was also in the vehicle. She may face a hit-and-run charge. The vehicle was towed. 

8/24 - Investigating a report of an injured deer with two babies on O’Sullivan Street, police spoke with a nearby resident who said the deer has had a leg injury for three years but was able to get around fine.

8/26 - A woman reported a necklace stolen from her car while parked at the hospital. She believes it may have been her ex-husband who gave her the necklace and had told her he wanted it back.

8/27 - A man in a wheelchair was allegedly harassing staff and patients in the hospital waiting room and refused to leave. He let an officer push him off hospital property. 

- Police shot an injured deer near Kings Court RV Park.

- An officer spoke on the phone with a man who was being belligerent and wasn’t explaining why he called police. The man kept calling the officer back. Police then spoke to the man in person. He reportedly continued to be belligerent. Police gleaned that he was wondering about a car that drove by him multiple times. Police told him it wasn’t a crime, which made him angry again. After a long interaction, police later learned he is flagged as a violent person and makes threats to law enforcement people.

8/28 - Three women got into a fight outside apartments on Hill Avenue. Two women were fighting, and a third tried to help her friend. The two women who were originally fighting are both facing assault charges. There are conflicting stories on who started the fight.

- Police received a call from a woman who said she had her boyfriend at taser point after he’d punched, choked, and hit her with an electrical cord at Osborn Bay when she was trying to leave. Police were also told the two had been smoking meth. The man was gone before police arrived. He is being charged with assault.

- A man driving a Chevy SLV south on SR-155 was hit by a Ford F250 going east on SR-174. The driver of the Ford accepted responsibility. Photographs were taken of the damage. The Chevy had about $2,000 worth of damage, and Ford had about $3,000 worth of damage. 

- Police responded to Sunbanks Resort where injured people were loaded into ambulances and taken to the hospital. A man and woman on a jet ski had hit a boat, reportedly at about 50 miles per hour.

- Two men fought on Wenatchee Avenue because one didn’t want the other to smoke marijuana inside a house. Neither wanted to press charges.

8/29 - A car at Jess Ford had four-way flashers activated at about 4:20 a.m. Police found the car to be unlocked and turned off the flashers.