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Scanner Traffic — 3/30/09

  • 5:33 p.m. Patrol officers are searching for a man suffering from Alzheimers who got lost while trying to drive to Cabela's.
  • 5:21 p.m. A downed power line has closed Yellowstone Trail for the next half hour.
  • 5:06 p.m. A blown semi tire is laying in the right e/b lane of I-90 @ Highway 41.
  • 4:32 p.m. Someone grabbed a flower basket from a Kathleen Avenue store and drove off e/b.
  • 4:09 p.m. 3 young females are throwing stuff from an overpass @ cars on I-90.
  • 2:57 p.m. A man wants to see an officer re: a mechanic who charged him for car repair but never did the work.
  • 2:17 p.m. R/P reports that someone has shot out her trailer window, and that her husband is chasing a suspect in the trailer park. Update: An officer decided that the window was broken by a rock hit by a boy with a baseball bat.
  • 1:45 p.m. A stack of about 20 sheets of plywood is laying in the street at Kathleen & Government Way.
  • 12:16 p.m. A 2-vehicle noninjury accident is blocking Prairie & Ramsey.
  • 11:37 a.m. R/P reports an older man is kissing a girl, approximately 12 years old, in one of the motel rooms near Triple Play.
  • 11:24 a.m. Motorist reports that 3 boys who are w/b on Prairie from Highway 95 -- two on foot and one on bike -- are holding a silver gun. One is sliding the action on the gun. R/P doesn't know if the gun is real or a toy.
  • 9:22 a.m. Workers have extinguished a fire in a dryer drum at Potlatch Mill, 401 Potlatch Road.
  • 8:46 a.m. Patrol officers are looking for an e/b 18-wheel truck involved in a hat-and-run accident with a silver 2002 Cadillac DeVille on Highway 53 @ Hauser.
  • 8:17 a.m. Authorities on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation are looking for a second man allegedly involved in a drive-by shooting at Bobby's bar in Plummer Sunday morning. One man is in custody.
  • 12:47 a.m. Joel and Tamara Rocklin of Post Falls were injured Sunday night when they crashed after losing control of their vehicle and boat trailer on Highway 95 near Worley. ISP report here.


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