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11/11 - An empty can of stewed tomatoes proved to be a ruse. A broken brake light led police to pull a vehicle over on Midway Avenue. A tribal police dog named Thor indicated there were drugs in the vehicle. The driver denied an officer’s request to search the vehicle, resulting in the vehicle being towed to the police station and parked in the garage secured with evidence tape. A county judge allowed a search warrant on the car, which revealed the empty stewed tomatoes can on which the bottom unscrewed to reveal a white powder police will test to see if it is an illegal substance. A large speaker was also found to conceal what appeared to be the corner of a plastic bag, something known to be used to contain narcotics. The empty can of stewed tomatoes was logged as evidence. The vehicle was released back to the owner. 

11/12 - Police took possession of a bicycle, left in the parking lot of North Cascades Bank, for safekeeping.

11/13 - A Hill Avenue woman had reportedly driven recklessly in the Federal Avenue and Spokane Way area. Police contacted her at her residence and informed her of the complaint, and told her to follow speed limits and operate her vehicle safely. She said she would do so. 

11/14 - A woman handed a man on Continental Heights a plastic bag of what appeared to be handmade jewelry. She said she had been given the jewelry by a man who wanted to make amends from stealing from her previously. The man who ended up with the plastic bag felt the jewelry may have been stolen and didn’t want it. Police looked for previous cases of stolen jewelry to see if the jewelry matched any cases but didn’t find any matches. Police also left a message for the woman who had turned in the jewelry to glean more information from her.

- A logging truck driver found a wallet and turned it into police who eventually were able to  contact an insurance representative who said they would contact the rightful owner. The rightful owner called police and said they would retrieve the wallet at a later date. 

11/15 - A man with a broken taillight was stopped at Four Corners and told police that earlier in the day he came out of a store in Omak and the damage to his car was there. Police told him he should have reported the damage at the time. He ended up being cited for having an expired registration, no valid license, and the defective tail light. 

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11/12 - An Electric City man had an issue involving his nephew taking his tires. The man and nephew resolved the issue on their own accord and police were not needed for the case. 

11/13 - Police went to Front Street in Elmer City on an “unwanted person” case, but left when tribal police arrived. 

11/14 - A vehicle parked in front of a Cedar Street home was stolen by a person in a black hoodie. Police reviewed security footage from the nearby casino. They were later informed that tribal police had retrieved the vehicle somehow.

- Police didn’t find anyone inside a trailer on Electric Boulevard where a burglary had been reported, only a door ajar.

- Police attempted to locate a man said to be armed with a baseball bat at a River Drive residence but were unable to locate him. There was some kind of family fight at the residence.

11/15 - Police collected information about an incident in which a 12-year-old Lake Roosevelt student reported being inappropriately touched by a 14-year-old boy while she was staying at a residence in Elmer City. Police relayed the case to tribal police who said the case would be best handled by Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office as the people involved were not tribal members. 

- An officer served a man with civil paperwork on Kelso Avenue in Electric City. 

11/16 - An Electric City woman’s Ulta Beauty account was charged $397.28 from someone in Huston, Texas. The crime was forwarded to Texas. The Electric City woman didn’t have any charges to her own financial cards, and the charge was possibly applied to an unrelated stolen card.

- A man wanted on a felony warrant out of Okanogan County for multiple crimes was taken to jail. He had previously been reported as trying to enter a car on River Drive and also allegedly had taken a beer from the Mexican food restaurant in town where he was found outside.

- Police checked on a call originating from Sunbanks Lake Resort that was a “butt dial,” according to the caller, and included argumentative dialogue the dispatcher said. The argumentative dialogue was less intense than other calls, the dispatcher noted, and police, while searching the area, didn’t find anything amiss or overhear any arguments.

11/17 - An officer assisted Grand Coulee Police with looking for a possibly armed and dangerous man at a Bowen Street Address. He was not found there. The suspect was wanted for aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon.

11/18 - Grand Coulee Police told Coulee Dam Police about the possible rape of a 14-year-old on Kruk Road near the golf course.

- Two Ford pickups collided head on near 12th and Camas streets. Both trucks were able to be driven away from the scene of the accident. One of the drivers was not in his lane of travel as he made a turn and admitted to such. He didn’t have insurance, but the police report notes that tribal members aren’t required to have insurance within the boundaries of the reservation.