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Scanner Traffic/PM — 8.12.10

  • 6:11 p.m. Juvenile is jumping off bridge into water at Qemiln Park/Post Falls.
  • 6 p.m. Caller reports that a neighbor cursed him as he rode by on his tractor, on Parks Road/Athol.
  • 5:24 p.m. Motorist reports that a male looking over Seltice Way/Post Falls bridge to I-90 appears to be ready to drop something.
  • 5:12 p.m. A possible structure fire is reported at 335 E. Tiger/Post Falls.
  • 4:53 p.m. Caller reports a possible illegal burn in 16500 block of Sitka/Rathdrum.
  • 4:52 p.m. A semi truck has hit a barrier on I-90 near 4th Street exit/CdA.
  • 4:38 p.m. Female reports that juveniles in a 1994 silver Mazda (registered in Post Falls) sprayed her w/water as they passed in the 3rd Street lot/CdA.
  • 4:28 p.m. Caller is concerned re: a male w/a shaved head who is sitting on a bench @ Finucane Park/Hayden, looking at children.
  • 4:22 p.m. A CPD Blue is trying to stop a motorist in a stolen vehicle @ 15th & Locust.
  • 3:51 p.m. Officer requests medical help for a juvenile male who cut his foot open on the west side of the point on Tubbs Hill.
  • More below

  • 3:45 p.m. Caller reports a rabbit is loose on Woodvine/Hayden.
  • 3:32 p.m. Caller reports that 14YO female is threatening to beat her up in 100 block of W. 19th/Post Falls.
  • 3:27 p.m. Female, @ Chase & Peaceful/Rathdrum, said she arrived home to find one pane of a double-pane glass door broken.
  • 2:31 p.m. Two small children, ages 3 or 4, are throwing items into street and then retrieving them @ Strahorn & Avon/Hayden Lake.
  • 2:19 p.m. 4YO girl has been located.
  • 2:17 p.m. Officer spots an abandoned lemonade stand w/money in the jar in the alley near where 4YO girl disappeared -- and is told by another officer that neighborhood kids abandoned stand to help look for girl.
  • 2:05 p.m. A truck is jackknifed after a possible crash w/a camper on I-90 & H95/CdA.
  • 1:57 p.m. Post Falls police are looking for a 4YO blond-hair, blue-eyed girl in a pink top w/butterfly sleeves who is missing from 1600 block of Coeur d'Alene (near 3rd Avenue). They are now doing a house-to-house search. Neighbors say they saw her 20-25 minutes ago, with a little boy.
  • 1:39 p.m. Female reports that a neighbor left after trying to choke her husband.
  • 1:34 p.m. Dirk reports he lost a box of rifles from his pickup bed somewhere on I-90.
  • 1:09 p.m. Rathdrum female reports that her ex-husband kicked down her door and took their child without permission. He's driving a yellow 1987 Toyota.
  • 12:22 p.m. Best Buy (off H95) reports shoplifting suspects have left the store and entered nearby T.J. Maxx.
  • 12:19 p.m. Driver of a semi truck, n/b on Sandpoint's Long Bridge, has run several vehicles off the road, as he appears to be in a hurry.
  • 12:18 p.m. Caller wants to see an officer re: an "illegal piercing."
  • 12:09 p.m. A mother reports she's found two missing children, ages 9 & 11, after 45 minutes of searching on Inland Empire Paper Co. property @ Hidden Valley & H53.
  • AM Scanner Traffic


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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