5:03 p.m. Female frantic b/c 25YO & 19YO males fighting in home in 3900 block of Laurel/CdA.
5:01 p.m. Boy w/baseball bat & 2 friends confronting 6-7 others at Bluegrass Park in CdA Place.
4:53 p.m. Suspicious male in gray hoodie appears to be checking out vehicles in parking lots of KMart (first) & then Home Depot (near garden center), according to another driver.
4:23 p.m. Government Way, from Hanley to Dalton, will be closed for 10-12 hours until repair crews can fix a gas leak caused by road construction crew rupturing a natural gas line.
4:16 p.m. A Yorkshire & a Lab are running into traffic on H95 @ M/P 428 (Blackwell Island)
3:49 p.m. Officers are shutting down n/b traffic @ Govt & Dalton as result of gas leak near Cenex.
18 more items + AM Scanner Traffic link below
3:35 p.m. Larry wants to see deputy re: wheels on a repossessed vehicles being his.
3:09 p.m. Caller reports that traffic lights are malfunctioning @ Sherman & I-90/CdA.
3:05 p.m. Manager @ Appleway Arby's/CdA reports she accidentally hit holdup alarm.
2:59 p.m. Flying J employee reports Washington man in white Pontiac smelled of alcohol.
2:54 p.m. CPD officers are looking for a silver 1999 Ford Contour stolen on March 24.
2:51 p.m. North Idaho Behavioral Center on Kootenai Health Way reports vandalism.
2:29 p.m. Post Falls WalMart/Mullan reports a cooperative 14YO female shoplifter in office.
2:27 p.m. 23YO female reports male followed her to Coeur d'Alene home during lunch hour.
2:13 p.m. Honda driver follows hit-and-run driver to his home on Spruce/CdA & confronts him.
1:54 p.m. Child has twice called 911 from pay phone @ Prairie Shopping Center & said, "hello."
1:51 p.m. Sheriff's deputy en route to pick up missing 11YO (1:29 item) from Seasons/Athol.
1:31 p.m. Possible victim reports stalking in 5600 block of Government Way/Hayden.
1:29 p.m. Caller returned home to find 11YO boy missing from Warren & Jacka Loop/Athol.
1:19 p.m. Caller reports possible DUI involving Hyundai Santa Fe now in Stein's IGA lot/Rathdrum.
12:58 a.m. Missing older male in wheelchair may be in Big 5 story on Appleway/CdA.
12:46 p.m. Tina of Texaco, 7450 Govt Way/Hayden, sez pickup driver left w/o paying for $69 in gas.
12:41 p.m. Caller reports older male in motorized wheelchair has been missing for two hours. He was en route to Taco Bell & isn't dressed for weather. He's described as 6-foot, 240 lbs.
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.
