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4/24 - A broken down vehicle was towed from Columbia Avenue after being parked there for more than 72 hours, which is the limit set by city code.

- An Electric City woman reported someone impersonating her on the social media app TikTok, including having a photo of herself and her child. The company told her the account was legitimate. She gave police a phone number that traces to California. She was supposed to email more information to police but police didn’t receive the email and so the case is considered inactive.

- Police pulled a car over on Columbia Avenue that didn’t have any license plates. The driver wasn’t licensed. The car was towed.

4/26 - A student claimed he was high and then left the school. Police helped the school get him back onto school grounds. There was no evidence he was high and no crime committed.

- Police were unable to locate a woman to check on her wellbeing. Tribal police said she may have been involved in some kind of an incident in Nespelem.

4/27 - Dispatch told police a woman reported her car was stolen and that she was in pursuit of it in another car, heading toward Electric City. Police told the dispatcher to tell the woman not to chase the car. While parked near the Department of Transportation, police saw the vehicle heading north into Electric City. The car had its headlights off at night. Police started to pull it over when it made turns and accelerated at a high rate of speed on Sunny Drive. The car turned around on Sunny Drive at a dead end and accelerated toward the officer’s vehicle as if trying to cause a head on collision. Police swerved out of the car’s way. The car almost hit a Grand Coulee officer’s vehicle further down the street, as well. The Coulee Dam officer determined the driver was likely driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The vehicle almost hit his vehicle again at Kelso Avenue and Taylor Street. The car ran out of gas on Third Street, and the driver was taken into custody. Police found tin foil with a brown substance in the woman’s possession, likely to be heroin. The woman said she was trying to “have fun” when asked why she ran from police. She showed signs of being high on heroin, confirming a DUI. The owner of the car told police she had some time earlier given her permission to drive to Delano, but not to Electric City, and that when she asked for her car back, the driver took off. A couple had also reported they had been rear ended in their own car as the stolen car was evading police. That added hit-and-run to the charges of evading police, the DUI, vehicular assault, and theft of a vehicle. The driver was taken to Grant County Jail. 

4/28 - Police and casino security helped a man retrieve his car keys from his daughter, who took his car to the casino after he had asked for it back.

- Police were unable to locate a dirt bike or four-wheeler after receiving a report of some kind of traffic problem near Stevens and Crest Avenues in Electric City. 

4/29 - Police assisted Washington State Patrol with a vehicle rollover accident on SR-155 near mile post 20 outside of Electric City. No further information was included in the report.

City of Grand Coulee

Town Hall Meeting

Tuesday, May 9, 6:00pm – 7:00pm

The Grand Coulee Police Department will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting Tuesday, May 9, 2023, from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.

The meeting will take place in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 306 Midway Avenue.

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The purpose of the Town Hall Meeting is for Grand Coulee residents to share their concerns about criminal activity within Grand Coulee with the Grand Coulee Police Department.

If you are unable to attend, you may submit your concern in writing to: Grand Coulee Police Department, ATTN: Officer Gilbert, PO Box 180, Grand Coulee, WA 99133-0180.