5:35 p.m. Pilgrim's Market worker reports he confronted a customer w/a gun in his waist band. The man left in a green pickup after saying he had a right to wear the gun.
5:25 p.m. Driver of gold Saturn is turning at high rate of speed on Meyer & Lancaster/Rathdrum, with child in back seat.
5:18 p.m. Vehicle-bike crash reported near Davis Donuts, 4th & Appleway/CdA.
5:12 p.m. Shoplifter caught at Grocery Outlet, West Neider/CdA.
4:57 p.m. Daniel, Hayden Lake Road & Chicken Point, reports loggers damaged his fence and hay field by dropping a tree on them.
4:52 p.m. 10 to 12 mid-teens are yelling profanity at Brett James Park/Post Falls.
4:50 p.m. Sarah, on Macie Loop/Hayden, reports her dog is trapped in a neighbor's back yard w/a skunk.
4:47 p.m. 10 to 12 juveniles are standing in the middle of 21st Street, near Spokane Street/Post Falls, blocking vehicles from passing.
4:31 p.m. Wayne @ Super 1/Hayden reports catching a juvenile shoplifter.
4:20 p.m. Caller reports that a mentally challenged 9YO is at a construction site by himself @ White Sands Lane & Syringa/Post Falls.
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4 p.m. Juveniles on bikes pushed another juvenile into bushes @ 4th & Coeur d'Alene/CdA.
3:11 p.m. Young adult male w/orange bandana is aggressively panhandling in Shopko parking lot.
2:42 p.m. Patrol officer is checking on 3 panhandlers @ corner of Government Way & Hayden.
2:41 p.m. Caller wants extra patrols to stop speeding trucks on Idaho b/n Prairie & Hayden.
2:39 p.m. Caller wants to press charges against a male who spit on him during a road rage incident.
2:22 p.m. A pickup is high-centered north of the Skyway Elementary soccer fields in Coeur d'Alene Place.
2:20 p.m. Authorities are told to watch for a white van w/black letters being driven by a clean-shaven 30ish male w/short hair who tried to lure a child into the vehicle in Sunny Slopes are of Shoshone County earlier today. The man is accompanied by a 13-14YO boy.
2:07 p.m. Caller reports that an injured cat is crawling across Ramsey & Miles/Hayden.
1:21 p.m. An elderly male has collapsed at Super 1/CdA and needs to be evaluated.
12:52 p.m. A mother and her child are in a stalled white VW Rabbit that's blocking i/s of H53 & H41/Rathdrum.
12:42 p.m. Caretaker @ e/b Huetter rest stop reports that a female has been living there for 3 days, the same woman that authorities had to evict from the area last year.
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.
