Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee

Police

4/5 - After looking for it for a day in his home, an Electric City man decided to report a firearm as either missing or stolen. He told police he’d been shooting at Osborne Bay the day before and wasn’t sure he brought it back inside on returning home. Then he went on a date the night before at a bonfire in Soap Lake and could have left his car unlocked. Or he may have set it down when fixing a flat alongside the road on the way home, then forgot to pick it up. He estimated the loss of the 22-caliber Ruger and four boxes of ammunition at $2,500.

4/6 - Police told an apartment resident not to contact people at the complex who said he’d threatened them. He was told not to contact the apartment manager either, except for apartment business, for the same reason.

- Police responded to a theft complaint at the Safeway store, where a woman had reportedly locked herself in the bathroom. She was out walking around the store and screaming when police arrived but left when the officer ordered her to. She was informed the store wanted her banned from the property for life and that she would be arrested if she returned. Lincoln County Jail would not take her on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant.

- After admitting to breaking up household furniture and more during an argument with the mother of his children, a 26-year-old man on Burdin Boulevard was booked into jail on a charge of second-degree malicious mischief.

4/7- Police responded to a noise complaint at apartments on Continental Heights, where loud music was coming from an apartment just before 1 a.m. Police knocked and rang the doorbell multiple times but got no response, then advised the complainant to tell the apartment management about the problem.

- Someone did about $2,500 in damage by shooting a BB into the window of the NAPA Auto Parts store, the manager reported. Police were later told that dump trucks parked nearby had also had BB damage to their windows.

4/8 – Two men, who had no-contact court orders against each other, each called police after parking next to the other in the Safeway parking lot. With the help of an interpreter on the phone, police determined the close encounter was most likely accidental. The woman named on the court order would not talk to police because she was busy making dinner.

4/9 – An officer cited a passenger in a car for not wearing a seatbelt after a Soap Lake police chief informed him the passenger had not been wearing a seatbelt before he saw the officer on Midway Avenue.

Coulee Dam

Police

4/3 - Police arrested and booked a man at Okanogan County Jail for criminal trespass after complaints from two local businesses — Harvest Foods and the Coulee Dam Casino — from which he had been banned. The casino had a written notice of the ban signed by him.

4/5 – The police chief assisted Lincoln County deputies with perimeter control during the execution of a search warrant service on Spring Canyon Road where a subject was barricaded in. Two subjects were arrested.