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Police

9/13 - A Pearl Avenue man reported his son’s blue Redline bicycle was stolen from his yard. Police told him to report suspicious individuals he might see. There has been a string of thefts on his street.

9/14 - Police went to Coulee Playland to tell a couple of campers they had to leave because they were past their checkout time. The couple was in the process of leaving. Police spoke to them. The couple paid for additional nights to camp. The man was cited for assault for a previous incident in August at Osborn Bay.

9/16 - A woman reported that her daughter punched her in the face while at a Yakima Street residence. Police observed a small laceration by the woman’s nose. She has a no-contact order against her daughter, who faces the charge of assault in violation of a court order.

- Police didn’t observe any signs of forced entry at a Banks Avenue residence where an alarm had gone off. They did see a cat inside the residence when they peered into the window. 

- Police looked at an unoccupied Ford F150 parked at North Dam after dark, when the park was closed, and saw it had two different license plates; one was accurate but the other was not. Police removed the inaccurate one and destroyed it.

9/19 - A blue Dodge was reported to have clipped a dog that ran into the road near Les Schwab. The vehicle drove off. The dog was said to be not injured.

- Police were unwilling to break a woman’s window on her car that she locked the keys inside at North Dam Park. They did call a tow company, however, which was able to unlock the vehicle.

- Police had an abandoned vehicle towed from North Dam Park.

- A King Street man saw that a package was stolen from his porch. A security camera showed a woman take an Amazon package and leave in a white sedan. The woman appeared to be pregnant or merely have a “beer belly,” according to the police report. The package contained about $80 worth of items. A few days later, police pulled the woman over on SR-155 for having an expired registration. She admitted to stealing the package. She was cited for theft.

9/21 - Police told a woman that she should seek an attorney’s advice concerning her brother taking items belonging to her sister, now deceased, who had lived on Fortuyn Road.

- A woman reported her van being scraped by a truck backing out of a parking stall at the hospital. A man came to help with the situation, and the truck drove off without the driver talking to the woman. Police observed a scrape on her van. Police drove to the truck owner’s home in Coulee Dam after being shown a picture of the vehicle and its license plate. The truck owner told police the man who had helped said the truck didn’t scrape the van, and so he drove off. Police didn’t observe scrapes on the truck consistent with the incident, although they didn’t rule out the possibility that it did scrape the van. There was not enough evidence to classify the incident as a hit and run.

- A man reported his trucks had been broken into at his Washington Place residence. Stolen items totalled about $2,500 in value including binoculars, a range finder, and a case. Police suggested he get security cameras. The man’s daughter-in-law also had items stolen from her car on Electric Boulevard, including Apple AirPods. 

- Police observed a man trying to get into a vehicle in the Safeway parking lot. After some confusion due to the car recently being sold, police found out the man was in fact the rightful owner of the car. However, he was also wanted on an arrest warrant out of Grant County, as well as out of Montana. He was arrested and taken to jail, which he was not happy about. 

9/22 - Police went to Grand Avenue where a loose chihuahua was said to be harassing a woman’s dog. Police recognized the dog but were unable to contact the chihuahua’s owner. They took the dog to an outreach facility in Moses Lake.

9/23 - A woman on Roosevelt Drive was cited for disorderly conduct after reportedly calling a child walking on the sidewalk a “whore” about a week earlier. The woman had previously claimed that the sidewalk the child was walking on was her private property because she had it installed herself, but the city said it was still public property. Police said it was good that the child walked on the sidewalk rather than the street. The police noted the woman has frequent issues with some of her neighbors.

9/24 - A man was reported as walking on Grand Avenue, following an older couple, and possibly harassing them. Police located the couple, who said that they didn’t feel harassed. The man who was reportedly following them was later reported outside the Fusion Cafe, staring at customers for about an hour. Police saw him, seemingly on drugs, talking to himself and waving his arms in the air. He continued on his way down the street, still waving his arms.

9/25 - Someone reported hearing items breaking in an apartment on Hill Avenue. Police arrived, and a woman came out apologizing to the officers. She appeared to be high or intoxicated and had blood on her hands and face. Police entered the apartment and noticed items that had been thrown, holes in the walls, and a broken bathroom mirror. The woman was taken to the hospital for her wounds.

9/26 - Police observed a damaged vehicle parked on the sidewalk on Burdin Boulevard and partly in the roadway. Police were unable to contact the registered owner and so had the vehicle towed.

- Police were unable to locate a black Jaguar said to be driven by a man for whom Okanogan Mental Health had a pick-up order. 

Coulee Dam

Police

9/24 - A woman reported she hadn’t heard back from her friend whom she talks to daily, and asked police to do a welfare check. Police knocked on a Tulip Street door but no one answered. Police didn’t press the issue as it hadn’t been more than 24 hours since the woman last heard from her friend.

9/25 - A Division Street man reported that his ex-girlfriend had stolen his cell phone. Police contacted her, and she gave the phone to the police. The man didn’t want to press charges, just wanted his cell phone back.