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Scanner Traffic/AM — 8.20.10

  • 11:58 a.m. PFPD Blue asks for firefighter "to break a window for me."
  • 11:40 a.m. Silverwood Theme Park reports an accident involving a semi at entrance.
  • 11:37 a.m. 2 children about 3YO & 4YO are walking unattended past Lakeland High.
  • 11:35 a.m. CPD Blues are looking for 16YO male, with pierced ears and lip, who's run away after stealing 2005 Honda.
  • 11:17 a.m. A Rathdrum woman has locked the keys & baby in vehicle in driveway.
  • 10:54 a.m. Someone has been hurt in a fall in Bank of America lot/Appleway.
  • 10:03 a.m. Caller reports a driver is reading a book @ H41 & M/P 3 (Hayden Avenue)
  • 9:47 a.m. A father has taken his 18MO daughter who has blue eyes and a purple bow in her hair and her diaper bag from Post Falls day care w/o permission.
  • 9:32 a.m. A male in a tie-dye shirt, with a black dog, is hitchhiking @ I-90 & Seltice Way/Post Falls.
  • 9:35 a.m. A vehicle is stalled on Spokane Street/Post Falls onramp.
  • 9:17 a.m. Firefighters are checking out a possible illegal burn @ 3728 Sky Harbor/CdA.
  • 8:42 a.m. A mattress is hanging from a guardrail on H95 @ M/P 427.5 (Cougar Gulch Road)
  • 8:34 a.m. Todd from the bailiff's office reports a battery on 3rd floor of old Kootenai County courthouse.
  • 8:31 a.m. Caller reports a small, dead animal on road @ I-90 & Northwest Boulevard. To which a patrol officer responds: "There was a raccoon there earlier. It's no hazard."
  • 8:21 a.m. E/b traffic light is out @ 3rd & Lakeside/CdA.
  • 8:13 a.m. Caller reports a wanted male was at his brother's house last evening in 1600 block of 3rd/Post Falls.


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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