6:10 p.m. Male in an older, bright-green, 1960s pickup may be tampering w/ATM machine @ Wells Fargo Bank/Ironwood.
5:17 p.m. A male in a red ballcap is waving knives around in the parking lot of Albertson’s/Ironwood Drive.
4:41 p.m. Sun Rental/Government Way clerk reports a customer is threatening to beat him up for charging him tax. The man drove away in a white pickup w/personalized plates: “ELKHUNTER.”
4:37 p.m. A juvenile female is screaming & on the ground after a bike crash @ Government & Wyoming/Hayden.
4:17 p.m. A female pedestrian was hit by a vehicle as she ran across Government Way in front of Great Floors. She’s still on the ground.
3:38 p.m. A male who is upset at law enforcement for some reason called 911 from Chatcolet/Worley.
3:36 p.m. Ronald reports a neighbor saw an old pickup hit his mailbox @ Highwy & Fernwood and drive off.
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3 p.m. Local doctor’s office reports a patient forged a doctor’s medical prescription.
2:55 p.m. Mother reports that there’s a hand-print on her small son’s bottom that might be from a baby-sitter hitting him.
2:40 p.m. Hazmat unit is checking out gas on the ground around the area where gas was siphoned from a vehicle, 4585 Seltice Way.
2:28 p.m. An 8YO boy who suffered a head injury in a go-cart accident on H54 walked into the Timberlake Fire District building, seeking medical attention.
2:02 p.m. Probation officer reports an electrical fire @ Davidson & Government. Fire started four hours ago. And has been extinguished several times. It may have caused a large hole in the roof.
1:22 p.m. A vehicle is on fire in the driveway @ 768 Helen/Hayden, near two other vehicles.
1:04 p.m. A female driver @ the Idaho Youth Ranch/4th reports that a man who didn’t like her driving jumped out of his vehicle on Government Way and threatened her.
1:02 p.m. A man trying to serve a trespassing warrant to a resident @ H53 & Chase asks for backup because the subject has become belligerent.
12:58 p.m. CPR is under way for a 60YO male who fall off a 15-foot ladder on Alice Court/Athol.
12:37 p.m. R/P reports 2 males in a white hatchback is the run vehicle in a hit-and-run @ 4th & Hattie. CPD Blue later caught the two who stopped and ran from vehicle.
12:07 p.m. R/P reports that a friend’s chainsaw, which was stolen over the weekend, is in the back of a Ford F-250 pickup parked at the Coeur d’Alene Bingo Casino.
12:08 p.m. A local librarian reports that she’d trying to get a heavy-set, screaming female to leave the building.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
hhuseland on November 05 at 6:53 p.m.
Is it just me, or we having more weird stuff going down lately than usual?