5:19 p.m. ISP officer changing a flat on I-90 @ Fourth of July Pass.
4:50 p.m. Wal*Mart wants help finding a shoplifter, in light pink shorts w/o shoes, who dropped items when spotted and ran into a nearby subdivision.
4:42 p.m. Woman has lost her brown-and-white pitbull near Albertson's/CdA.
4:23 p.m. Shoplifter caught @ Super 1/CdA is being cooperative.
4:05 p.m. R/P reports that someone is shooting with a high-caliber gun @ Cedar Grove & Garwood. He'd like an officer to check it out b/c there's no shooting range nearby.
4:02 p.m. A resident of Maple/Hayden fears that a strange plant growing on his property may be marijuana.
2:50 p.m. Caregiver reports that dogs belonging to an elderly man are looking "sickly."
2:40 p.m. ISP officer has pulled over an older blue pickup w/o plates on I-90, MP 6.
2:34 p.m. R/P asks for a welfare check on 2 horses that appear malnourished in northern Post Falls.
2:12 p.m. R/P reports that people are taking items from a repossessed car @ a business on H53 in the Rathdrum area.
1:51 p.m. Lunceford Avenue resident reports that someone in a red Dodge has made off with her purse.
1:20 p.m. Crash b/n semi truck & vehicle blocks highway east of Priest River here.
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.
