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AM Scanner — 5.20.11

  • Noonish: Resident of Catherine Street/PF reports vandalism damage to trees.
  • 11:30 a.m. Rite Aid (Prairie Shopping Center) worker reports house trash dumped in store bin.
  • 11:09 a.m. Teen girl reportedly has taken 13 Aleves & other drugs in Hauser Lake area.
  • 11:07 a.m. Cooler hold-up alarm is sounding at Rathdrum Taco Bell (apparently a false alarm).
  • 10:22 a.m. Coeur d'Alene business reports catching employee stealing money.
  • 10:15 a.m. Bobbi reports her Shiba Inu mix with a microchip is missing.
  • 10:10 a.m. ISP reports w/b highway readerboard still not telling of congestion at stateline. And is told by dispatcher that there's portable signs at M/P 3 and M/P 1.5 warning drivers.
  • 10:05 a.m. Some sort of noninjury accident is reported on I-90 at the stateline.
  • 10:02 p.m. Robert is in the KCSD lobby to report his daughter is being threatened.
  • 9:57 a.m. Caller from Cruisers tavern @ 6105 W. Seltice Way/State Line reports car burglary.
  • 9:56 a.m. Black Chevy pickup is losing fuel from chemical tank its pulling on e/b I-90 from Spokane/PF.
  • 9:41 a.m. Caller reports a residential burglary in 1600 block of Front/CdA.
  • 9:24 a.m. Patrol officer says he needs to talk to fire truck driver re: "move over law."
  • 9:09 a.m. Dispatcher says freeway sign on I-90 near NW Blvd is malfunctioning. It can't be turned on to warn w/b drivers of traffic delays near stateline caused by closure of one lane.
  • 8:48 a.m. Patrol officer askes that freeway sign be turned on to warn driver's of stateline congestion.
  • 8:40 a.m. Lake City High official wants to see an officer re: a student under influence of booze or pot.


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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