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Grand Coulee Police

3/28 - A man may face trespassing charges after staring at people through the window of the gym on Coulee Boulevard. The man had been banned from the business previously.

3/29 - A woman putting makeup on while in the middle of the road on Alcan Road was told to stay out of the roadway.

3/30 - Police spoke to a man who parked a trailer on private property on King Street. The man said he would get the trailer back soon after a friend’s truck tire got fixed. Police said the owner could request to have it towed, but the man said he understood.

- Police checked on the wellbeing of a man on Alcan Road who was said to have missed a doctor’s appointment and who wasn’t answering his phone. He said he was sick and tired of the doctor’s office messing up his appointments, and that he no longer has a phone.

- Two vehicles were reported to be racing around the Coulee Playland parking lot with people yelling and screaming. Police found the vehicles with groups of kids at the Four Corners area. They said they were messing around and playing tag. Police told them to settle down for the night.

4/1 - Police went to Main Street where a man reported helping move his grandmother out of a residence and her having a black eye, thinking the homeowner may have assaulted her. The grandmother said “things” had been “going on for months,” but didn’t wish to press charges. The homeowner said she fell off her mobility scooter and was also upset the grandson was helping her move out at 4 a.m.

- Surveillance footage shows a woman stealing firewood from a yard on Wenatchee Avenue. The homeowner doesn’t wish to press charges but police documented the incident.

- Police checked on a man reported to be in the roadway of Coulee Boulevard. They found a man jogging and seeming to obey all traffic laws while doing so.

- Two people were reported taking storage bins outside of H&H Grocery and rummaging through garbage. A man was caught with a black Darigold milk crate and denied having anything to do with it. He may face a theft charge.

4/2 - Police documented an incident of a Wetzel Street man receiving text messages from a neighbor about putting poison out to stop animals from defecating in his yard. The man responded that it was illegal to poison domestic animals.

- A Crest Avenue man was concerned that he may have found a human bone while excavating under his house that was built in 1938. The bone had cut marks on it. Police took the bone and consulted a coroner, who said it did not appear to be a human bone.

- A man in a yellow sweatshirt was reported walking around with a shotgun in the King’s Court laundromat area. Police didn’t find anyone matching the description, and people in the area didn’t notice a man carrying a shotgun either.

- A man and woman collected their belongings and left a Burdin Boulevard trailer. Police had spoken to the former owner days earlier and were told no one was supposed to be there. There was insufficient evidence to charge the pair with trespassing as there were no “no trespassing” signs and police were unable to contact the current owner.

4/3 - Police responded to a report of someone possibly driving under the influence and found the vehicle at the Four Corners gas station. Police spoke to the driver, who didn’t appear intoxicated at all, but did have a large steak on his passenger seat with bites taken out of it. The man said he had not been eating the steak while driving.

- A concerned neighbor on Banks Avenue reported a neighbor’s truck door was open. The owner said he must have been tired from fishing and left it open. Nothing was taken from the truck.

- Coulee Boulevard apartment dwellers said they were playing video games and didn’t think they were being very loud when police contacted them because of a noise complaint. They agreed to keep the noise down.

Coulee Dam Police

3/28 - Police located a man at a slot machine at the casino and arrested him for stealing a car from the Soap Lake area. The keys were returned to the owner of the car.

- A man reported a credit card being opened in his name in California. He said he doesn’t know anyone in California. 

- Police turned on the lights and turned off the water that had been left running in the girls’ bathroom at Mead Park.

3/30 - A driver said she wasn’t sure what had happened, exactly, but she drove up on the sidewalk at Harvest Foods and hit a parked car. Police helped the owners exchange information.

4/2 - Kids were reported to have been pushing rocks in the roadway of River Drive near the fire station. Police saw the kids, but no rocks.

4/3 - A man was arrested for trespassing at the casino, from which he had previously been banned. He was also reported for scaring customers at Harvest Foods where he has been chased off by employees before.