Coulee Cops

Grand Coulee Police

12/27 -The city clerk told police that someone claiming they were a city official told Grant PUD that trees on Partello Parkway needed trimming or to be cut down for the beautification of Grand Coulee. Police spoke to a PUD employee who explained that the PUD does trim and cut trees that have been trimmed before and that these trees did need to be trimmed again. There was no monetary loss due to cutting the trees. The person that pointed the trees out to him had been running for mayor at the time.

- Police checked the area of the post office after receiving a report a male wearing black and carrying a firearm. Police didn’t see anyone matching the description.

- Despite a man being wanted on numerous arrest warrants, the Grant County Jail would not accept the man because of “booking restrictions.” He had been pulled over on Midway Avenue for driving a van with non-working tail lights. He was cited for the lights, driving without registration, and driving without insurance. He had recently been warned not to drive the vehicle without proper registration. The vehicle was towed after he was allowed to take things out of it. 

12/28 - A missing husband returned before police were needed to search for him. 

- Police spoke to the driver of a car that was in a ditch near Midway Avenue and SR-155. After running out of gas, the car ended up in the ditch when the driver was attempting to push it off the road, he said. The driver admitted to drinking seven Rolling Rock beers about a couple of hours prior to driving. He blew a blood alcohol content level of 0.03, under the legal limit of 0.08. He was still cited for negligent driving, with the officer concluding the driver had crashed because he was impaired.

- Police collected information about tools stolen from a Weil Place residence where a man had been working. He said the tools had been accessed through an upstairs window. Nothing was damaged inside the residence.

12/31 - Police were told about a pit bull trying to bite people in the Federal Avenue area. Police found a dog matching the description and found it was not aggressive. There were no tags and also no place to take the dog.

Coulee Dam

Police

12/18 - Police were unable to locate a reported suspicious male in a white hat who had been passing by an area on Fir Street in Coulee Dam multiple times.

12/23 - Police collected details from a Birch Street man who explained that he was ending a relationship with a woman he said had been acting erratically, at one point hit him with a broomstick, and had stolen multiple items including a jump pack for a vehicle that she had been allowed to use before. Police spoke to the woman over the phone who said she was driving to Spokane and argued with police a bit. She said she would drop the man’s items off at the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, but never did. There is probable cause to charge her with theft.

12/25 - An officer removed rocks in the roadway of SR-155, north of Electric City. 

12/26 - A man reported his vehicles had been rummaged through on Birch Street.

12/27 - Police relayed legal information to people on Stevens Avenue in Electric City where one person was leaving a residence and was given, and agreed to, a timeframe for removing property from the residence. 

12/28 - Police were unable to locate a shirtless man reported near the tavern in Electric City after someone reported being concerned about the fellow.

12/29 - Police responded  to  a case in which a man was reported as kicking trash into the roadway of SR-155 near Coulee Playland. Police approached a man holding a window screen in one hand and having the other hand in his pocket. The man was known to have been aggressive towards police in the past. Holding up an egg he’d pulled from his pocket, he said that the officer would “get it” when he spoke to the officer through the window of his patrol car. The officer at one point shot his taser towards the man, who had thrown the egg, missing the officer. The officer missed the individual, hitting the screen. The situation continued from there including the man jumping into the back of a Department of Transportation truck, then out again. Another officer was unsuccessful in pepper spraying the man but then successfully tased him. The man was arrested. Grand Coulee Police assisted in the case, removing a taser probe from the man’s back at one point. The man was then able to remove taser probes from his chest himself while in the back of a Coulee Dam Police car. Officers from both departments accompanied the man to the hospital where he was cleared for jail for charges not specified in the departmental reports.

12/30 - Police helped an elderly pantless man get his pants back on near the casino about 10:30 p.m. He did not know how they’d come off. It was 37 degrees outside. After talking with him and assessing the situation, the officer arranged with the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office to get him to his home in the Omak area. They met the Coulee Dam officer at Disautel Pass for the transfer.