3:27 p.m. Caller reports talking to female driver in car parked at Mobile gas station @ H95 & Appleway who was drinking beer from a six-pack on her lap.
3:23 p.m. Crash b/n red Ford Focus & white pickup is blocking s/b H95 & Prairie/Hayden. (Officer asks for patient evaluation of 3YO boy who was buckled into his car seat.)
3:07 p.m. Post Falls WalMart has caught a female shoplifter who's being cooperative.
2:56 p.m. Caller reports a man in black jersey & black-and-white shorts grabbed him by the neck and told him to get off CityLink bus at Riverstone bus stop.
2:49 p.m. Robert has questions re: no-wake zones. (Matthew had similar questions @ 3:22 p.m.)
2:44 p.m. A neighbor dispute involving a gun display is reported on H53 & Chase/Rathdrum.
2:37 p.m. Rider suffered a traumatic injury when thrown from horse @ county fairgrounds.
2:29 p.m. A brown cow is wandering loose on road b/n McGuire Road & H53 (Hauser area).
2:22 p.m. An unresponsive person is reported in 10200 block of N. Reed/Hayden.
2:13 p.m. Someone w/uncontrolled nose bleed is reported in trailer court @ 2215 H53/Rathdrum.
1:48 p.m. Vehicles are dodging a full garbage bag of grass on e/b I-90 @ M/P 7 (H41)
1:31 p.m. A small boy is lighting fireworks by himself on Mitch Michael Road/Worley.
1:12 p.m. 3-vehicle, non-injury accident is blocking H95 near i/s w/I-90.
1:10 p.m. Employees of San Francisco Sourdough at Riverstone have surrounded a mouthy shoplifter
who stole items from nearby Sugar Shack and then ran into the restaurant kitchen.
1:09 p.m. Teens in black BMW w/Washington plates tail-gated another vehicle on H95 @ Chilco and then flipped off the other driver as they passed him.
1:06 p.m. An unwanted person is reported on East Sherman Avenue.
1:03 p.m. A person is unconscious @ Coeur d'Alene Drive & St. Joe Drive/Spirit Lake.
12:53 p.m. Rathdrum officer checking non-injury crash at entrance to Lakeland High, involving 3 men.
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.