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Scanner Traffic — 1/8/09

5:15 p.m. R/P reports a woman has been screaming for 15 minutes in the area of Indiana & 11th. He can't make out what she's saying. But he plans to drive by the site where the screaming seems to be coming from.

5:01 p.m. A possible suicide attempt involving a female in apartments near Government Way & Dakota.

4:40 p.m. Resident asks officers to remove a possible homeless man from his property. The man isn't drunk or antagonistic.

 3:18 p.m. R/P reports from Sportsman's Access on Lake Coeur d'Alene that he helped an older woman in a green sedan out of a ditch after she almost ran him off the road. He thinks she's drunk.

2:20 p.m. R/P on Good Hope Road (near Farragut State Park) hears someone yelling for help, but he can't get across ice to find out what's going on.

2:01 p.m. A man is threatening suicide in the 3800 block of Fruitland.

1:26 p.m. A sheet of ice broke a gas main when it slipped off the roof of a strip mall @ 9426 Government Way, behind the Lake City Senior Center. Authorities evacuated the mall while Avista workers repaired the gas main.

 

12:41 p.m. Suicide threat in the 1600 block of Birch Avenue.

12:25 p.m. About 20 men from two different companies are arguing and fighting at Burger Haven on Highway 53 in Rathdrum. They refuse to leave.

10:36 a.m. 2-vehicle non-injury accident -- Bonner County sander versus passenger car @ Pinewood & Cocalalla in Sagle.

10:21 a.m. A microwave fire has filled a house w/smoke @ Lancaster & Bradbury.

 

8:59 a.m. A ladder is laying on the e/b passing lane of I-90, near the Pleasant View exit.

8:58 a.m. R/P reports that an aggressive moose is in his driveway @ Highway 53 & Atlas -- and that F&G had advised him to call Kootenai County authorities. (Later, a deputy said two mooses had wandered away from the property.)

*8:06 a.m. A husband is harassing his wife who works at a business on 4th Street.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.