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PM Scanner Traffic — 10.23.09

  • 5:59 p.m. CPD Blues are responding to a domestic fight in which a drunken father is holding gun on his son on Monet Drive/CdA. One person has suffered injury to his eye.
  • 5 p.m. Local doctor reports one of his patients may have been raped.
  • 4:38 p.m. An 82YO man in a red passenger car is suffering severe chest pains @ Seltice & Northwest Blvd.
  • 4:37 p.m. Motorist wonders if a full, black garbage sack @ Ramsey & Warren is garbage or a Halloween prank.
  • 4:29 p.m. R/P reports that people in a white Dodge and a green Cherokee may be drug dealing in the KFC/Appleway parking lot.
  • Much more below
  • 4:01 p.m. Athol R/P reports unlawful entry to his cabin on Hamlet Trail/Hayden.
  • 3:46 p.m. R/P reports that a woman in a white van ran a stop sign and almost hit her @ Government Way & Canfield -- and is now parked in the Student Credit Union.
  • 3:42 p.m. An off-duty Post Falls cop reports that a Washington Mercedes was speeding and flashing lights e/b on I-90 @ M/P 1 -- and he's willing to sign a complaint.
  • 3:38 p.m. A black Chevy van is disabled in the median of Ramsey & Wilbur as a result of a flat front tire.
  • 3:09 p.m. A Post Falls mother reports that an older blue-over-white pickup cut the corner at such a rate of speed @ 13th Avenue that it splashed her children nearby.
  • 3:03 p.m. An officer warns that motorists trying to cross BNSF line from H53 or side roads will be calling because a train has been blocking those i/s for 10 minutes already.
  • 2:29 p.m. R/P reports that smoke from her wood stove is filling her house in 3300 block of Hayden View Drive (near Lookout & Packsaddle). She doesn't see smoke.
  • 2:04 p.m. Cathy reports there are malnourished horses in the Athol area.
  • 2:02 p.m. A large fire is reported alongside H95 @ M/P 415 (Rockford Bay Road).
  • 1:30 p.m. Inland Northwest Bank in 1700 block of Seltice Way reports a suspicious male has been watching the bank for the last half hour outside in the rain.
  • AM Scanner Traffic


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    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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