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Grand Coulee Police

2/7 - Police responded to King Street where a woman was reportedly attempting to break the windows of another woman’s car. The woman by the car told police that the woman at the residence had sold her the car then stolen it back. The woman at the residence said it was her car. Police ran the car’s information through their system and found it was registered to another woman entirely. She told police that she had loaned the car to the woman at the residence and that she was supposed to be getting it back tonight. The woman by the residence changed her story and said it was her friend’s car. The woman by the car said she had put the battery and front wheels on it and she wanted them back. The woman by the residence denied that. A man showed up who said he had given the woman at the residence money for the car. Police told them all that those were civil matters.

- Police received a complaint of a green Chevy racing up and down Weil Place. Police spoke to a Les Schwab employee who returned from test driving another vehicle he was working on. He apologized, saying he hadn’t been going fast in the Chevy, but that the car is loud.

- Police pursued a car up the Grand Coulee Hill Road toward Almira because the car matched the description of a stolen vehicle. The car seemed to be eluding police, eventually speeding up but swerving, nearly hitting a gate, and coming to a stop. Police frisked the driver and put him in the police car. When running the vehicle’s information, police found that it wasn’t stolen. Asked why he didn’t stop for police, the driver said he likes to drive fast up the winding road while blaring loud music and wasn’t aware that police were there. The jail wouldn’t book the man on an outstanding felony warrant and he was allowed to go, with his passenger taking over driving. The man facing the charge of failure to stop for a law enforcement officer.

2/8 - A man on Pleasant Valley Road was reported as acting weird, sitting inside his Volkswagen Beetle and revving the engine. The man was sleeping with the car on, and his foot would rev the engine. Police woke him up, and the man explained he was sleeping outside of where he works. He went back to sleep. Police left the area.

2/9 - Police were unsuccessful in catching a small, “rat looking” dog that was running loose in the Four Corners area. Police contacted a man whose dog it might have been, but he had his dog with him.

- Police spoke to a Coulee Playland employee and a man who had been sleeping in his broken down car there. The man was allowed to stay a couple more days, which police said was generous of Coulee Playland, and that the man should try to leave as soon as possible. The next day, the man’s car was parked at storage units on A Street, and the man was told he was banned from there and needed to leave. He was further told that Grand Coulee doesn’t allow people to sleep in their cars, and doesn’t have resources for homeless people.

2/11 - A woman on Kelso Avenue allegedly pounded on a neighbor’s truck, upset about loud music, then threw a rock in the direction of another neighbor who told her to go inside. The woman is said to have mental issues. She later was said to have thrown a cup at her husband while he was cooking; he had a cut on his face. The woman was arrested and taken to jail for assault. She was allegedly combative toward police through the process and seemed to not understand why there are laws.

2/12 - A man and woman dined and dashed at Hometown Pizza, and were banned from the restaurant for one year after being found nearby by police. The same woman was later said to be under the influence of some kind of drug, banging on the Variety Store window and running in and out of the business. She eventually got a ride from a friend away from the area.

2/13 - Police helped a man with bad knees get to his residence near Coulee Boulevard.

Coulee Dam Police

2/6 - A Lake Roosevelt student said he was sitting at his desk with some stuff on a chair nearby. Another student came up to him and asked if someone was using the chair and he said his stuff was there. The other student threw the stuff off the chair, and when the student stood up he got punched, causing a fracture to his face. He doesn’t wish to press charges. Police may be provided with medical records to confirm the fracture. 

2/9 - A Douglas Avenue man reported receiving Facebook messages coming from different names. He believes them to be from a man against whom he has a no-contact court order. 

2/11 - Police told a woman that they couldn’t get into her house which her daughter was locked out of.

2/12 - Police stopped a man who was driving 60 miles per hour in the 30 zone near the top of the Grand Coulee Dam. However, the officer’s computer wasn’t working, and the driver was only given a verbal warning.

2/13 - A man is being charged with criminal trespassing and theft for allegedly stealing gasoline from a Central Drive resident’s truck. The man admitted to taking the gasoline, saying he uses it to keep himself and his girlfriend warm in his car. Police gave him a glass of water at the police station to wash the taste of gasoline out of his mouth. Police placed the five-gallon gas can in the back of the pickup the gas was stolen from. Later, the homeowner saw on security footage that the girlfriend took the gas can back out of his truck. She was then found nearby and charged with trespassing and theft.