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Scanner Traffic/PM — 4.22.10

  • 5:20 p.m. Motorist reports that a silver car swerved, then plowed into the median and stopped @ I-90 & 15th Street/CdA. Driver may be drunk or ill.
  • 5:13 p.m. Caller reports seeing a wanted male riding bikes w/2 males dressed in black @ 16th & Spokane/Post Falls.
  • 4:57 p.m. A maroon Montana SUV left w/o paying for gas @ Holiday station/Hayden.
  • 4:51 p.m. Lewd and lascivious act reported on 13th/CdA.
  • 4:47 p.m. A dog is lying in the middle of Idahline/Post Falls, chewing a dead bird.
  • 4:34 p.m. A white dump truck is losing load of styrofoam and insulation on I-90 @ the stateline.
  • 4:31 p.m. Caller reports 2 motorcycles are racing behind 2700 block of Evening Star/Post Falls.
  • 4:07 p.m. A child is penned in his mother's vehicle after T-bone crash @ H53 & Westwood Drive/Rathdrum. 2 children and possibly mother hurt. 2 ambulances en route.
  • Much more below
  • 3:49 p.m. A motorcycle is "embedded" in an unoccupied house @ 4th & Hanley. No injuries.
  • 3:34 p.m. Laurie has questions re: a possible puppy mill.
  • 3:07 p.m. A caller reports that a box of nails fell out of a pickup and are now littered all over the busy intersection of H95 & Hayden.
  • 2:57 p.m. A possibly mentally disturbed male is sitting in the median of I-90 @ M/P 12.5 (Fourth Street), after trying to cross the freeway.
  • 2:40 p.m. 2 juvenile males are fistfighting behind the Dalton Market as school is being let out across the street at Canfield Middle School.
  • 1:40 p.m. Mother on Poleline/Post Falls reports she doesn't want her son's ex-girlfriend coming to her home.
  • 1:07 p.m. A biz @ 1849 Lacey reports "compost driveoff" by a green Ford pickup driver.
  • 1:04 p.m. Caller reports 2 juvenile boys broke into a neighbor's vehicle in 4100 block of Couples and took things before leaving e/b on Hogan.
  • 1:04 p.m. Cheyenne reports someone broke into her horse trailer.
  • 1:03 p.m. Randy reports his girlfriend has lost his green Toyota Tercel.
  • 12:35 p.m. Male reports that his girlfriend has stolen his laptop.
  • 12:06 p.m. Pedestrian walking past propane tanks on western end of Fred Meyer/Kathleen Avenue reports strong smell of propane.
  • AM Scanner Traffic


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    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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