3:53 p.m. Caller reports some sort of traffic hazard @ Government Way & Kathleen/CdA.
3:37 p.m. Shopko on Ironwood/CdA has caught a cooperative shoplifter.
3:09 p.m. An off-duty officer has crashed on Hayden Lake Road @ M/P 15
3:04 p.m. CPD Blue (from 2:58 p.m. incident) reports 2 more vehicles spun out & almost hit his car.
2:58 p.m. CPD Blue is asking for sand on curve @ Kathleen & Player. 3 cars have slid off.
2:52 p.m. Kohl's, 545 W. Agua/CdA, reports catching two shoplifters.
2:20 p.m. DMV reports person wanted on non-extraditable Florida warrant is in office.
2:19 p.m. Caller reports a red pickup pulling a trailer ran a stop sign & is speeding @ H95 & 53.
2:08 p.m. Driver reports his pickup is fully engulfed in flames after rolling on Hayden Lake Road b/n Chicken Point & north end of Hayden Lake. No one was injured.
1:50 p.m. 2 ambulances are responding to crash that left at least one vehicle in a snow bank, off I-90 @ M/P 422 (near Kidd Island Bay Road).
1:19 p.m. A w/b semi & a VW van have crashed and are partly blocking I-90 & M/P 34 (H3 overpass).
1:06 p.m. Someone is suffering a seizure near i/s of Hayden & Atlas.
12:21 p.m. Wholesale Sports, 3534 Government Way, has caught a cooperative shoplifter.
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.