Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

6/25 - A Grand Coulee resident reported a burglary that likely occurred last winter at a boarded-up building near Martin Road belonging to her family. Boards were missing from windows, wheels were missing from vehicles, and locks were damaged. Extra patrols in the area were requested.

- A man living in a camper on A Street agreed to turn off his generator at night to not disturb a neighbor. He told police he’d just gotten an address for the property and would soon have electric service installed.

6/26 - A resident of Bowen Street reported that she woke up when a neighbor’s dog jumped through her open window and snarled at her dogs, which were in crates. She said it’s an ongoing issue. An officer contacted the owner at his work, who said the dog was still tethered in the yard when he went to work. Police told him the tether was hanging over the fence, with the now-empty collar still hanging on its end. The owner said he’d come home to retrieve the dog.

- Police responded to Grand Coulee Dam, where a security officer said a woman had been involved in a domestic violence issue and thrown out of the car. When contacted, she told police she’d been punched in the leg and told to get out of the car along SR 155 just below the dam. She refused to cooperate further, but was given a ride to Electric City.

- Following a complaint from a family member, police investigated whether a crime had been committed when an elderly man decided to give his housekeeper of eight years $5,000. The complainant was also concerned the housekeeper had supplied him with alcohol during his hospital stay. After an interview and even an extra visit, an officer observed the man to be cognizant of his circumstances and even fluent in local politics with an understanding gained by reading the newspaper. The officer concluded that no crime had been committed. But the housekeeper understood being banned from visitation for two months due to her slipping the man some bourbon against hospital rules.

- After the State Patrol reported receiving a report of a man and woman hitting each other in a red car while in motion through the Four Corners intersection, with children in the car, three officers tried to find the car reported as traveling “west.” All three officers headed west on SR-174 “due to a lack of coordination,” but also combed the area, checking for any red cars — plus the hospital and other places — finding two not involved.

6/27 - Police investigated a 911 hang-up call from a woman who didn’t say anything, only cried, in the Delano area. They did not find the caller.

- A caller said a backpack containing drug paraphernalia had been found. Police took it and destroyed it.

- A caller reported that a man was “doing brodies” in the Faith Community Church parking lot. Police found a suspect and issued a citation.

6/28 - A caller said she wanted to press charges against a juvenile she thought was riding a motocross bike past her residence and revving the engine loudly. The juvenile’s guardian said he doesn’t ride his motorcycle on the street, but the reporting party harasses him just for riding his bike past her house.

6/29 - A woman reporting attempted money-order fraud at the Coulee Dam Post Office was referred to Coulee Dam Police.

6/30 - Police advised a woman on Roosevelt regarding getting a protection order against a person she said had been attacking her on social media and had started a verbal altercation after stopping her vehicle next to the woman’s house.

- A man was issued a “Potentially Dangerous Dog 1st infraction” and advised he needed to quarantine his dog for seven days after it attacked another dog near North Dam Park. 

- An officer issued a criminal citation for “Making False Statements to a Public Servant” after a woman told him she’d been blocked from leaving a business on Midway Avenue by another woman who threatened her. The officer’s investigation indicated that was not the case.

7/1- A hospital patient who had been discharged was reportedly being belligerent with staff, an “an ongoing occurrence,” the report states. The large man is in a wheelchair and cannot walk. He also can’t fit, with his prosthetic leg, into the police cruiser, the officer reported. Hospital security said he could stay in the hospital out of the heat if he behaved. That changed soon, said police, who returned to help him, along with hospital security, back into his own wheelchair. Police escorted him off the premises, but about an hour later were called back to his new location about a block away in the shade of a camper on private property, intoxicated and unable to get to the vehicle, in which he lives, in Coulee Dam. The officer wheeled him to the shade of a tree, where a resident gave him bottled water. An hour later, police returned to help him into another man’s car for a ride to his own.

- Police informed a man he’d been banned from property on E Street, where he reportedly has kept a pickup and camper for three years. He told police that the son of the property owner had destroyed the camper and taken items from inside it. Police said it was a civil matter. Nobody wanted charges pressed, even for an alleged shooting threat.

- A Grand Coulee officer assisted a Coulee Dam officer with a field sobriety test of a driver near Four Corners, who blew a breath test measuring 0.143, above the legal limit of 0.08. His wife didn’t have a license and did not contact anyone willing to drive their vehicle home. The vehicle was towed.

Coulee Dam

Police

6/27 - A driver who admitted spinning donuts in a church parking lot was cited for reckless driving and failing to transfer title within 45 days. He was also issued infractions for having no valid operator’s license with valid ID and for failure to renew registration.

6/28 - A man reported kids had thrown a pop bottle at his car. Police contacted the kids, who said it was actually a water balloon. Police said not to throw items at cars as it could cause an accident.

- Police noticed a vehicle with no one in it completely blocking the roadway at River Drive and Aspen Street. It was towed.

6/30 - An Electric City man reported people were firing guns but not in a gun range. Police checked the area and found two people shooting in “the gun range by Osborn Bay.”

7/1 - Police responded to Birch Street, where EMS personnel had encountered a patient “swinging” at them.

- A driver, stopped for speeding on SR-155 near Four Corners, was cited for Driving Under the Influence and issued a ticket for speeding: going 42 in a 30-mph zone.

7/2 - After a golf cart stolen from Sunbanks Lake Resort crashed into an occupied tent, an officer forwarded a report to Grant County prosecutors to decide on possible charges for three juveniles riding in or driving the cart; their mother, who allegedly gave officers false names for herself and her kids; and for one of the juveniles who allegedly threatened the life of another who told police the former was involved. “After a long discussion full of complete dishonesty from the juveniles and adults, it was found that all three of the juveniles were on-scene and were in the golf cart that had struck the child in the tent,” the officer wrote. 

- Officers responded to five calls in Electric City: a verbal disturbance, a noise complaint, an animal cruelty complaint, a nuisance complaint, and an unclassified disturbance.