Law Enforcement

COLBY-ABBOTSFORD POLICE

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_ Oct. 12 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford store in reference to a shoplifting complaint. He met with a manager who showed him surveillance footage of two male teenagers taking items off the shelf and placing them in a backpack. The officer was able to identify the two suspects from the video, and he went to one of their residences to interview them.

The officer told the teens right away that the thefts had been captured on video and he was just looking for a simple confession. They both admitted to taking items from the store, such as deodorant and soap. When the officer asked them for more specifi cs, the suspects became less talkative. The officer gave them a deadline to contact him with the specifics or he would finish the investigation on his own.

One of the teens called the offi cer back. The teens had gathered together all of the items they had stolen, including two sticks of deodorant, moisturizer, body wash and acne cleaning scrub. The officer returned the items to the store, and a retail theft citation was issued to the teen who took the blame. The officer also discovered that the teen had a warrant out for his arrest, and the bond was $500. He was unable to post the bond, so he was taken to Marathon County Juvenile Detention.

_ Oct. 12 - An officer was dispatched to a suspicious activity complaint in Abbotsford. A male party had called 911 and said that a large group of people had been dropped off in Abbotsford and were attempting to break into vehicles. Based on the caller’s description of where the group was allegedly dropped off, the officer went to the location and checked around but did not see anyone. The officer also checked several other streets and businesses in Abbotsford but did see not anyone. The offi cer attempted to call the caller back, but the phone was not in working order.

_ Oct. 13 - An officer investigated possible ordinance violations at residences in Colby and Abbotsford. At the Colby residence on Washington Street, the officer could see a vehicle with an expired 2019 registration sticker. The vehicle had previously been there on Oct. 6, with tires leaning against it. The tires were now gone, but the registration sticker was still expired.

At an Abbotsford residence on North Fifth Street, the officer photographed a pile of debris that included cabinets and other junk. Warning letters were sent to the property owners.

_ Oct. 13. - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford apartment in reference to a suspicious activity complaint. The officer arrived and met with a woman who was sitting on the floor of the living room. She pointed to the kitchen and asked that officer to search the apartment. The officer looked around, but did not see anything out of order. The woman claimed that a man and woman entered her apartment for no reason, and the male party picked up a glass table and started hitting himself in the head with it. The offi cer did not observe any blood on the table, and there were still items on it as if it had not been disturbed.

The woman pointed to a table and said the male party was still there, but the officer did not see anyone. The officer had noticed several beer cans in the apartment, so he asked the woman how much she had to drink. She said she had around five or six beers, and needed around that many so she could fall asleep.

The officer contacted a mental health counselor and had her talk to the woman. She did not have any intentions of hurting herself or others, so the counselor agreed to do a report for social services.

_ Oct. 13 - Officers did a K-9 sniff of the cars in the Abbotsford High School, and a dog alerted to the presence of narcotics in one of the vehicles. An officer used the license plate number to identify the student who had driven it to school. The student was brought to the vehicle, told about the positive alert and asked if there was anything inside. He admitted to having a vape pen in the center console.

A search of the vehicle uncovered two vape pens and vape cartridges containing both nicotine and THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. The items were taken as evidence, and the student was cited for possession of THC and underage possession of tobacco products.

_ Oct. 13 - An officer noticed a vehicle parked at Red Arrow Park at 10:30 p.m. Due to the time of night and previous acts of vandalism at the park, the officer decided to check on the vehicle. The officer met with the driver and his passenger. When asked what they were doing at the park, the driver said they were watching Netflix on his phone. The officer could immediately smell marijuana as he spoke to the occupants. When the officer asked about the smell, the driver handed him a pipe with burnt marijuana residue inside.

The driver and passenger were asked to exit the vehicle so it could be searched. The passenger admitted there was some more marijuana in one of the cupholders. A search uncovered a grinder with marijuana inside, a plastic baggie with marijuana and a red, white and blue elephant that was part of the pipe handed over by the driver. Two vape cartridges with marijuana symbols were also found on the passenger’s side of the vehicle. All of the items were taken as evidence, and the driver and passenger were cited for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The driver was told to call for a ride home.

_ Oct. 14 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford company in reference to someone pointing a gun at one of the employees. The officer spoke to a manager at the company who said one of the employees had been sitting in his vehicle when someone living cross the street pointed a gun at him. The manager said there are no parking signs on the street, but some of the employees do park there temporarily while they are waiting for parking spots to open up in the company’s parking lot.

The officer spoke with the employee in question. He said he had parked in front of a house across the street when a truck arrived and parked in the driveway. The employee said a man walked over to him and waved for him to move his vehicle. He said the man then went into his house, opened the front door and pointed a gun at him. The employee said he immediately pulled into the parking lot and reported the incident.

The officer went to the residence across the street and spoke to a woman there. She confirmed that there had been issues with people parking in front of her residence, blocking her driveway and mailbox. When asked about her adult son possibly pointing a gun at someone, she laughed and said it sounds like something he would do. She said he had gotten in trouble as a kid for pointing a BB gun at someone. The officer next spoke to the son, who admitted to aiming a shotgun at a vehicle after it didn’t move right away. He said the gun was not loaded, but if it had been, he would have just shot at the tire.

The officer told the son that the proper way to deal with a parking issue like that is to call the police and let them handle it. He said pointing a gun at someone was the wrong way to handle a minor parking dispute. A charge of recklessly endangering safety was referred to the district attorney’s office.

_ Oct. 15 - An officer met with a man who had a child custody complaint against his ex-wife. He said she was supposed to drop their child off with him at a gas station in Abbotsford, but she did not show up. When he called her, she said she would not be able to make the exchange because one of the children had swimming lessons. The complainant showed the officer a 22page child custody agreement, which showed it was his weekend to have their child.

The officer spoke to the exwife on the phone. She said swimming lessons was an agreed-upon activity, and it was part of the complainant’s custody time. She said it was the complainant’s responsibility to pick up the child in her town of residence. The officer asked her if it was fair to make the complainant drive the entire distance from his home near Green Bay to hers in New Richmond to pick up the child. She said she did not want to drive to Abbotsford after 8 p.m. with kids in the car. She said she texted the complainant and offered to meet him for the custody exchange the next morning.

The officer called the complainant back and explained his ex-wife’s reasoning for not driving all the way to Abbotsford. The officer advised him to contact the court to see if he could establish better wording in the agreement so he was not responsible for 100 percent of the travel when there were scheduling conflicts. He agreed to meet his ex-wife the following morning to exchange custody.

_ Oct. 16 - An officer responded to a report of a dog bite at an Abbotsford gas station. The officer met with the dog owner, who said he was at the station to fill up a propane tank when he was informed that a female party had stuck her hand in his truck and was bitten by his dog. The owner said he did not see the incident occur; he only heard his dog barking and saw a woman backing away from his truck. The dog owner provided the offi cer with proof of his dog’s rabies vaccination.

The officer spoke to staff at the gas station, who said no one had come in to report being bitten by a dog. He also reviewed security footage, but only saw one female approach the vehicle and speak to the dog owner. The officer questioned this woman. She said she had asked the dog owner if she could pet his dog and he told her no. She said she was never bitten.

_ Oct. 16 - Officers were dispatched to a Colby apartment in reference to a domestic disturbance. Dispatch advised that a male suspect had just attacked his girlfriend and then ran away.

The officer arrived and spoke to the complainant, who said an argument got started that day when she talked about wanting toleavehim.Shesaidhegrabbed her by the hair and hit her in the head with a closed fist. She said she went to the bathroom to try and get away from him, but he followed her and grabbed her hair again. She said he slapped her several times in the face and started kicking her in the legs. She said he tried choking her, but she was able to fight him off.

The complainant said the incident was broken up when her roommate pushed open the bathroom door and pushed the boyfriend out of the room. She said her boyfriend grabbed her cell phone before he left the apartment. The officer noticed that the complainant did not have fresh injuries matching her description of the attack. He also noted that the complainant had been arrested a few months earlier for attacking her boyfriend with a rubber mallet and threatening him with a knife.

The following day, the officer returned to the apartment to look for the boyfriend and speak to his brother, who lived downstairs. The brother, who was present during the incident, said it was the complainant who started the fight. He said she had threatened to kill his brother several times. During the previous day’s argument, he said the complainant kept yelling at his brother to hit her in the face and swatting at him. He said his brother grabbed her shirt and shoved her to get away. He said his brother stayed with him in his apartment after the fight, but he thinks he returned to the complainant’s apartment.

Police returned to the complainant’s apartment and found the suspect hiding in a bedroom closet. He was taken into custody and brought to the police for questioning. He told officers that his girlfriend’s roommate was selling marijuana. He said he had confronted them about leaving drugs around the apartment with children present. He said the complainant slammed his cell phone on the table, cracking the screen. He said she got into his face, slapped him several times and yelled at him to hit her. He said he pushed her to get away, and she fell to the ground, but he thinks it was more due to her alcohol consumption than the force of his push. He said they had actually reconciled with each other and were going to bed for the night when the roommate started screaming at him. He said he didn’t want to get into another fight, so he left. He denied that he attacked the complainant in the bathroom.

Based on everyone’s statements and the lack of injuries on the complainant, the officer decided that the complainant had been the primary aggressor. She was also not allowed to have contact with her boyfriend because of the previous domestic assault charge against her. The complainant was arrested for domestic disorderly conduct and bail jumping.

_ Oct. 17 - A man brought a dog to the police station that had been found running loose. An officer recognized the white Husky as one that had previously been found running at large. The dog was taken to the city’s Police logs____

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kennel, and when the owner came to claim it, he was cited for allowing a dog to run at large.

■ Oct. 17 - An officer responded to a burglary complainant at an Abbotsford house. The owner said she had been previously renting out the house to a couple, and when they moved out, they left behind damage that appeared to have been done by an animal. She said she believed the couple had a pet raccoon in the house.

The complainant said she had recently sold the house, and when she went to check on it, she noticed it had been gone through and several items were missing. She the missing items included four light bulbs, a curtain, and six folding chairs. She also said that someone had moved the washer away from the wall in the basement, and she suspected that certain parts had been taken. In the attic, someone had rolled up about six feet of insulation, leaving the floor exposed. On top of the insulation was a small amount of wood shavings and what looked like straw bedding. The property also had a garden storage shed, and two mattresses were found left inside.

The complainant had no idea where they came from.

The complainant said she realized the value of the missing items wasn’t much, but she wanted it on record with the police.

■ Oct. 17 - An officer received a call from an Abbotsford woman who was worried that her ex-boyfriend was lurking outside her bedroom window The officer parked down the street from the residence, turned off his headlights, and walked toward the residence. He turned on his flashlight and looked around the outside of the residence, but did not see anyone.

The complainant came outside and said she and her friend were in her room when they saw the shadow of someone pass by the window She said the figure bent down by the window The officer could see a gap beneath the window blinds where someone could have looked in through the window The complainant thought it was her ex-boyfriend, as he had called multiple times throughout the night. She said she was in the progress of getting a restraining order against him.

The officer returned to his squad and called the exboyfriend. When asked if he had been in Abbotsford that night, he said he went to a restaurant there but did not go to the complainant’s house. He said he had called the complainant to ask her what to do about their crying child. He repeatedly said he did not want to get in trouble for harassment, as he had already been officially warned.

■ Oct. 17 - An officer was on patrol in Colby when he noticed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed. He used his radar unit to clock the vehicle going 43 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone. The officer pulled the vehicle over near Hornet Drive, and made contact with the driver, who identified herself with an ID card. The officer did a records check on the driver, and she came back as having a suspended license and a warrant out of Clark County for contempt of court. The driver was taken into custody and taken to the police station. Her mother arrived and posted the $200.50 bond so she could be released. She was also cited for driving with a suspended license.

■ Oct. 17 - An officer responded to an Abbotsford residence for a welfare check after it was reported that a man there had talked about slitting his wrists. Officers met with the man in question, and he denied making any comments about wanting to harm himself. He showed officers his wrists, and there were no cuts or other injuries. The man said he was working with multiple support groups to help him when he get depressed.

He also had the phone number to the crisis line if needed.