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Scanner Traffic — 2/19/09

  • 5:45 p.m. R/P reports someone smoking inside Cataldo Mission.
  • 5:05 p.m. R/P wants to know his rights after a neighbor piles up snow, blocking access to his property.
  • 4:36 p.m. East/West lights @ 95 & Honeysuckle not cycling. Traffic backed up to Government Way in one direction.
  • 3:55 p.m. 2 males spinning donuts in a field near a local elementary.
  • 3:12 p.m. Petco reports that a female shoplifter has left the store and gone into Borders book store nearby.
  • 3:04 p.m. R/P reports seeing a female trying to get away from a male in a black pickup @ Riverview & Highland. The driver left after the female climbed a hill along Highland.
  • 2:52 p.m. CPD Blue has spotted a silver Dodge Durango with extensive front-end damage on I-90 @ Northwest Boulevard. The vehicle was involved in a hit-and-run near 4th & Harrison. An officer reports that there's "fertive movement inside" the vehicle, focusing on the console area. Update: City has a female subject detained. The driver also hit an police vehicle before stopping.
  • 2:51 p.m. R/P reports a possibly DUI male in a yellow van threatened him @ Riverstone.
  • 2:42 p.m. Water line broken @ 4452 E. Upper Hayden Lake Road.
  • 2:39 p.m. Traffic is at a standstill in the w/b lanes of Interstate 90 as the result of a two-car crash between a Dodge Nissan and a commercial van sometime earlier.


D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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