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Scanner Traffic/PM — 5.17.10

  • 5:28 p.m. 2 dirt bikers are racing @ Church & Hoyt/near Hauser.
  • 5:22 p.m. A caller sez he bought items from another apartment dweller on Anton/CdA but now the other man won't hand them over, stating he will protect them w/his machine gun.
  • 5:21 p.m. A wildland fire is reported in 8900 block of Nagle/Rathdrum.
  • 5:18 p.m. A male who appears "scared and sketchy" has been in the men's restroom at City Park for the last hour.
  • 5:16 p.m. 2 dogs are locked in a blue vehicle at Independence Point parking lot.
  • 4:57 p.m. Caller reports apartment neighbors are leaning over the balcony & yelling.
  • 4:46 p.m. Caller reports that a 13YO boy is trying to his his pregnant mother on Breezy Way/Post Falls.
  • 4:13 p.m. Caller reports that a van belonging to a Canadian cleaning company ran him off the road in a H95 construction zone @ Dakota/Hayden.
  • 3:59 p.m. An injured animal is reported in 600 block of E. Wilbur/Hayden.
  • 3:49 p.m. 2 young teen boys on bikes are playing chicken w/vehicles @ Cliff House & Hauser Lake Road.
  • 3:45 p.m. Caller on Pinehill Place/CdA reports that a neighbor involved in a domestic battery that she witnessed is trying to intimidate her.
  • Much more below
  • 3:19 p.m. Male caller reports that a female at Cozy Acres trailer court hit him "up alongside the head.
  • 3:10 p..m. A male on Sundown/CdA reports that he may have been drugged at a party on French Gulch last night.
  • 2:59 p.m. Motorist reports 5 or 6 males were beating up another male who was on the ground near some Seltice Way apartments.
  • 2:55 p.m. U.S. Marshals are trying to make a felony stop on a Nissan driven by a man named Benjamin @ H41 & Lancaster/Rathdrum. (& then e/b on Pine, near Alabama).
  • 2:39 p.m. Caller in 3500 block of W. Prairie reports a female came to door asking for gas money. Later, she saw the female driving out of the Prairie Christian Center lot.
  • 2:27 p.m. 7-Eleven reports that a 50-something man in a wheelchair is panhandling customers at the door and won't leave when asked.
  • 1:30 p.m. John Brown Elementary/Rathdrum reports a boy refuses to obey the rules.
  • 12:48 p.m. Resident from Jordan Drive/Post Falls reports a fire @ 3683 Mullan.
  • 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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