COLBY-ABBOTSFORD POLICE

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_ Dec. 14 - An officer met with an Abbotsford teen to discuss an argument that occurred between his father and another man who is involved with the teen’s mother. The complainant said nothing physical happened during the incident, but the male party in question has threatened him in the past.

The officer found out that the male subject was on probation, and was not allowed to be at the apartment where the argument occurred that day. The subject was detained during a traffic stop, and cans of beer were found inside the vehicle. He had alcohol on his breath, but he would not blow into the tube properly when asked to do a preliminary breath test. He was arrested for disorderly conduct and felony bail jumping.

The complainant also expressed concerns about his mother leaving his younger siblings home alone during the day. He said he had to leave school early that day to care for them. The officer told him to call the police if he suspects the children are left alone again.

_ Dec. 14 - An officer met with an Abbotsford man in reference to a trespassing complaint. The man said he noticed footprints in the snow coming from the street, across his neighbor’s driveway and onto his property. He said the prints were smaller and possibly made by a juvenile.

The officer spoke to the complainant’s neighbor, and he did not know who the footprints belonged to. The complainant said he’s had problems with trespassing in the past, and his neighbor found cigarette butts near a propane tank on his property. The complainant said he has security cameras in his back yard and will let the officer know if he sees anything on the video.

_ Dec. 14 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford gas station in response to a male party harassing an employee and refusing to leave. The officer arrived and spoke to the employee, who said she had originally met the male party online, but she had tried to sever ties with him. She said he has showed up at her work before and made disparaging comments about her to her manager.

Thecomplainantsaidthemale party in question had shown up with another man, and they bought sodas before returning to a truck in the parking lot. She said they have been sitting in the vehicle for the past 40 minutes, and she’s scared. The truck was leaving as the officer went out into the parking lot, but he was able to follow it and noticed the registration was expired.

The officer pulled the vehicle over and warned the driver about the expired registration. The passenger was the man identified by the complainant. He was asked to step out of the vehicle and was questioned why he was there. He denied harassing the complainant, but the offi cer did not believe him. He was warned about stalking her, and he agreed to stay away from the gas station and to stop trying to contact her.

_ Dec. 14 - An officer met with an Abbotsford man in reference to a complaint filed by his estranged wife. The complainant said they were in the process of getting divorced, and she noticed someone was withdrawing funds from her bank account. The husband was questioned about this, but he denied it was him and said he does not even have access to the account.

_ Dec. 15 - An officer was on patrol in Colby when he was flagged down by a male subject who wanted to report a physical assault. He had blood on his mouth and said his stepfather had hit him.

The complainant said he had borrowed his mother’s vehicle without realizing that it was having issues. He said he was able to get the vehicle back to her house, but his stepfather got mad at him for driving it. He said he was walking down some stairs when his stepfather started punching him in the back of the head. He said he threw his stepfather to the ground and held him there by his throat. He admitted to squeezing a little, but said he was only trying to settle his stepfather down. He said his stepfather was able to break free and punch him in the face, causing his mouth to bleed.

The complainant said his mother broke up the fight, and he started to leave with his child, who was in a car seat. He said his stepfather pushed him off the steps, causing the car seat to fall to the ground with the baby inside. He said he was able to get his baby in his vehicle, but the fight with stepfather started again when he went inside to get his keys. He said the stepfather also slammed a door on his fiancé’s recently broken foot.

The complainant said his stepfather tried preventing his vehicle from leaving, but he was eventually able to get away with his fiancé and their baby. The complainant’s fiancé provided the same version of the incident when questioned.

The officer went to the stepfather’s residence and spoke to him about the incident. He said the complainant was the one who attacked him by pulling his legs out from under him on the stairs and then putting him in a choke hold. He also denied that the baby was ever dropped to the ground or that he had slammed the door on the fiancé’s foot. The officer also spoke to the complainant’s younger brother, who witnessed the entire incident. He backed up what his stepfather said, confirming that the complainant was the main aggressor.

The officer returned to the complainant and asked him to recount the incident again. Some of his details changed, and he eventually backed off his claim that his baby had been dropped to the ground. The officer told him that putting someone in a choke hold is not a reasonable self-defense response to being hit. The complainant was arrested for disorderly conduct and strangulation/suffocation and taken to jail.

_ Dec. 17 - An officer observed a southbound vehicle on STH 13 in Colby as it got into the turnonly lane going east onto STH 29. The vehicle started to go east, but then started going southbound in the northbound lanes of STH 13. As the vehicle turned east onto Hodd Drive, the officer pulled it over.

The officer could smell alcohol on the driver’s breath as she spoke. She admitted to getting confused by the turn lanes and said it’s because she’s not from around here. She denied having anything to drink. The officer had her exit the vehicle for field sobriety tests.

The driver showed signs of intoxication during the tests and also registered a .197 bloodalcohol level on a preliminary breath test. She was arrested and taken to the police station, where she registered a .19 BAC. She was cited for drunk driving and warned about crossing the center lines.

_ Dec. 17 - An officer was on STH 13 in Abbotsford when he noticed a vehicle deviate from its lane twice. He pulled the vehicle over near East Linden Street, and as he approached the driver, he could smell marijuana. The driver admitted smoking some about 20 minutes earlier.

The driver and his passenger were told to exit the vehicle so it could be searched. The officer found a prescription bottle with one solid pill and some other fragments inside. When the driver was questioned about the pills, he said they were for his nephews’ attention-deficit disorder. He said he gives them to his nephew to calm him down and must have forget them in the center console. The pills were taken as possible evidence, and the driver was warned about the lane deviation.

_ Dec. 18 - An officer was on patrol at 11:45 p.m. when he noticed a vehicle with no lights traveling on Oak Street in Abbotsford. The officer activated his emergency lights, and the vehicle came to an abrupt stop.

The officer met with the driver and noticed an open can of beer in the center cupholder. The offi cer dumped the beer out on the roadside and asked the driver how much he had consumed. He claimed he only had half the can the officer dumped out.

The driver was told to exit the vehicle for field sobriety tests. He showed signs of intoxication and also registered a .133 blood-alcohol content on a preliminary breath test. He was arrested and taken to the police station, where he registered a .11 BAC on the breathalyzer. He was cited for drunk driving, having open intoxicants in a motor vehicle and driving without a valid license.

_ Dec. 19 - An officer was dispatched to a Colby station in response to a vehicle crashing into the side of the building. When the officer arrived, he noticed a vehicle parked in front of a window that was completely shattered. At that time, the vehicle was in a parking spot.

The officer spoke to the driver, who said he was pulling into the parking spot when he hit the brakes, causing his vehicle to slide on the ice into the building. The officer looked into the vehicle and could see several plastic baggies rolled up on the driver’s side. The driver admitted they had been used to package marijuana. When the car door was opened, the officer could smell a strong marijuana odor coming from inside.

The driver gave the officer permission to look in the glove box for an insurance card, and the officer found a glass pipe inside, along with THC wax. Several plastic containers with marijuana were also found, along with a vape pen and a grinder. The driver agreed to do field sobriety tests, and the officers did not see any signs of intoxication.

The driver was cited for possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving without a license and driving with insurance. A total of 2.1 grams of marijuana was seized as evidence, and the driver called someone for a ride home. The owner of the gas station was contacted about filing an accident report.

_ Dec. 20 - An officer was on patrol in Abbotsford when he ran the license plate of a vehicle on Spruce Street. The registered vehicle owner came back as having a revoked driver’s license, so the officer pulled the vehicle over.

As the officer met with the driver, he noticed the backseat passenger had an open beer bottle in his lap, and the front seat passenger was sitting on a bottle of beer. The driver had glassy eyes and a slight odor of alcohol on his breath.

The officer had the driver and his two passengers write down their names on a sheet of paper. One of the passenger’s names did not come back on file, and he was found to have written down a different name. Of the three occupants, he was the only old enough to possess alcohol. He was later cited for obstructing an officer, having open intoxicants in a vehicle, and providing alcohol to minors.

The driver, who was 18, admitted to drinking that night and agreed to undergo field sobriety tests. He registered a .07 bloodalcohol level on the breathalyzer. He was cited for driving while intoxicated. His 17-yearold passenger was also cited for underage possession of open intoxicants in a motor vehicle.