COLBY-ABBOTSFORD POLICE

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_ Nov. 21 - An officer responded to a single-vehicle crash with no injuries on STH 13 on the south end of Colby. When he arrived, the officer noticed a light pole lying in the grass. The offi cer approached a nearby vehicle, which had a broken driver’s side window. The officer spoke to the driver, who initially said he was coming from “Rippton.” He eventually clarified that he was coming from a bar located in Riplinger.

The driver had alcohol on his breath, and his speech was slow and slurred. The officer also noticed a shotgun in the front passenger seat. The driver said the gun was unloaded. The driver said he had consumed four to five drinks and then drank several bottles of water in an attempt to sober up. He acknowledged that he was probably too drunk to be driving and said he fell asleep before striking the light pole.

The officer had the driver exit the vehicle for field sobriety tests. The driver showed several signs of intoxication and also registered a .098 blood-alcohol content on a preliminary breath test. He was arrested and taken to the police station, where he registered a .09 BAC on the breathalyzer. He was cited for drunk driving, failure to keep a vehicle under control and driving without insurance.

_ Nov. 22 - An officer responded to a complaint of a neighbor’s dog defecating on the property of an Abbotsford resident. The officer met with the dog owner, who showed the officer where her dog was chained up. She said they have a dispute with their neighbor about where the property line is, and she does not believe her dog is defecating on the neighbor’s property.

The officer recommended she shorten the dog’s chain to avoid future conflicts and to also have the property line surveyed and marked to settle the dispute.

_ Nov. 22 - Officers responded to a report of a possible breakin at a house in Colby. The caller lived in the upper apartment of the building and thought she heard loud crashing noises in the apartment below. The officers met with the tenant of the lower apartment, who was watching a TV show with someone using a baseball bat to smash things. He said he had also been bouncing a basketball inside his apartment. The officers advised him to turn the volume down on the TV and to take the basketball outside to keep from alarming his neighbor.

_ Nov. 22 - An officer responded to a possible scam complaint at a gas station in Colby. He spoke to a clerk who had received a phone call from a man in Las Vegas who wanted her to check and see if there was trailer parked next to the CAT scale in the parking lot. The clerk thought the call was suspicious, so she told the caller that she did not see a trailer. The officer located a trailer in the parking lot and ran the vehicle identifi cation number in Wisconsin and Nevada, but did not get any returns.

The next day, the officer spoke to a Wood County deputy who said the call to the clerk was not a scam. The owner of a trucking company had a falling out with one of his drivers, and the driver was using the trailer as collateral in order to get his final paycheck. The deputy spoke to the driver, who agreed to drop the trailer off at the gas station in Colby. The owner of the trucking company said he had another driver in the area who was going to pick up the trailer.

_ Nov. 23 - An officer took a phone call from a Wisconsin Rapids woman who said her motorcycle had been stolen in June and she believed it was being kept in Abbotsford. The complainant said she was recently in Abbotsford and checked around, but did not see her motorcycle. The officer told her that she needed to report the motorcycle stolen with the Wisconsin Rapids Police Department, but Colby-Abby police would keep their eyes open for her motorcycle. The officer also looked into a couple of names provided by the complainant, but he did not find anything connecting them to the stolen motorcycle.

_ Nov. 23 - An officer followed up on a counterfeit currency complaint at a Colby store. A clerk showed him video of a male suspect handing him a $100 bill. The clerk said the bill already had a mark on it from previously being checked and found to be fake. The clerk told the suspect the bill was not valid and he could not accept it. He said the suspect argued with him for awhile, but then took the bill back.

The clerk said about three hours after that initial incident, a second male suspect came in and tried to pass a fake $20 bill with a mark already on it. The suspect once again argued with the clerk before taking the bill back. The clerk said he had seen the two suspects in the store before, but they were not together.

The officer obtained photos of the suspects from the security footage, but was not able to get much information on the vehicles they were driving.

_ Nov. 23 - An officer responded to a report of a lost dog in Colby. He spoke with a man who said his dog ran off when he went to answer his door. He said he searched the area for two hours, but did not find the dog. The owner said the dog is a mixed breed, but looks like a white poodle and goes by the name “Shoonie.” He last saw the dog walking by the woods on South Sixth Street near the city’s sewage treatment plant. He said the dog does not have a collar.

_ Nov. 23 - An officer spoke to a woman who believed she dropped her phone while getting out of her vehicle at an Abbotsford gas station. She used the “find my phone” feature to track its location to another nearby gas station. The officer contacted several gas stations in the area, but none of them had received a lost phone. He also checked with a manager at the station where the phone was reportedly dropped, but the manager said they had already checked their security footage and did not see anyone picking up a phone.

_ Nov. 24 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a dog bite. The officer met with the dog owner, who said her dog had bitten one of her kid’s friends. The officer met with the victim, who had severe lacerations on her upper and lower lip. The officer called for an ambulance.

The victim said she had been feeding hot dogs to the dog when it jumped up and bit her in the face. An ambulance crew arrived and cleaned up the wound. The victim was later taken to a hospital by relatives. The dog owner said the animal had never bitten anyone before, but she was planning to have it put down because she could no longer trust it. She provided the officer with a rabies vaccine certification.

_ Nov. 25 - Officers responded to an unlawful dumping report at the city’s yard waste pile in Abbotsford. Dispatch reported that two male subjects were throwing building materials into the pile. A vehicle matching a description of the suspects’ vehicle was located near the yard waste pile, and the offi cers conducted a traffic stop. The officers could see a large pile of drywall, construction wood and tile.

The driver admitted to dumping the materials at the site, and said he didn’t know where else they should go. The officer noted the presence of a sign that said “Brush only” in both English and Spanish. Dispatch indicated that the driver had a revoked license and an active warrant for failure to pay child support. The driver was arrested and taken to the police station, where he posted the $500 bond. He was cited for unlawful dumping and driving after revocation (fourth offense).

_ Nov. 25 - A Colby woman called to report that her exgirlfriend had borrowed her van to take her kids trick-ortreating on Oct. 31 and she still had not returned the vehicle. The complainant said the van had been left in a parking lot in Eau Claire and she had no way of getting it back on her own. The officer said it sounded like a civil issue between her and her ex-girlfriend, but he agreed to call the ex. He did so and left a message on her voicemail.

_ Nov. 26 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a domestic disturbance. Dispatch reported that a cell phone had been thrown out of a window, and when he arrived, the officer noticed a broken window on the second floor of the building.

The officer spoke to a male party who admitted to throwing his girlfriend’s cell phone, but said he didn’t mean for it to go through the window. He also said she had attacked him with a piece of wood and a broom handle. The officer noticed scratches on his arms and neck area. The officer also spoke to the girlfriend, who was acting defensively and said she wanted her boyfriend out of the apartment. The officer noticed coloration around the girlfriend’s eyes, reportedly after she was headbutted during an earlier incident.

Based on the statements from each party and the injuries on the boyfriend, the officer decided to arrest the girlfriend for domestic disorderly conduct. The officer also noticed a bong and a joint containing marijuana in plain sight. These items were taken as evidence, and the girlfriend was recommended for charges of marijuana possession and domestic disorderly conduct and battery.

_ Nov. 26 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a domestic disturbance. The officer met with a woman who said she felt unsafe in her home and wanted her boyfriend out of the house. She said he had been drinking, and there was a history of domestic violence. She said nothing physical happened. The officer said he could not force her boyfriend to leave, and she would have to go through the eviction process to remove him.

The officer attempted to speak with the boyfriend, but he was upset and yelling. The officer eventually ordered him to remain in his room for the night. He then entered his room and stopped yelling. The officer asked the complainant if she could stay someplace else for the night. She did not want to contact her mother and did not have money for a hotel room. She said she would lock herself in a downstairs bedroom for the night. The officer advised her to call 911 if the situation escalated at any point.

_ Nov. 26 - An officer responded to a request for a welfare check on a man in Colby. A female party said the man had made some comments about being “done,” and she was worried about what he meant. The man in question was staying with someone in Colby. Officers went to the residence and met with the homeowner, who said the man in question had left and did not say where he was going. The homeowner did not have his phone number or a description of what he was wearing. He said the male party does not have a vehicle and gets around only by walking. An officer called the concerned party back, but she did not have a phone number for the man in question because they only communicate through Facebook. The officer put out an attempt-to-locate to the surrounding counties, asking other agencies to contact the police department if they locate the individual.

_ Nov. 26 - An officer responded to a disturbance at an apartment in Abbotsford. The officer met with a man outside who said that a group of men had broken into his apartment and taken his phone. He said the incident started when he was approached by the five men outside his apartment. He said he did not know them personally, but they wanted to continue drinking at his house. He told them no, and then ran up to his apartment and locked the door behind him.

The complainant said the men broke through the glass window on his door, unlocked it and let themselves in. He said they were there drinking for about a half-hour, and two of them were acting aggressively toward him. He said they shoved him around and started looking for a knife to stab him with. He said they took his cell phone, broke it, and left with it.

The complainant said his girlfriend had been sleeping in the bedroom while all this happened, and then she went to stay at her mother’s house. The complainant provided a description of the man who broke the window, and said he had a cut on his hand. There were drops of dried blood in the kitchen, and the offi cer collected a few specimens using a swab. The complainant requested extra patrols in his neighborhood.

_ Nov. 27 - An officer responded to a bank in Colby in reference to a hit-and-run accident involving an intoxicated driver. The officer arrived and saw a metal electrical transformer box that had been completely knocked over, exposing the wiring inside. An electrical meter box was also damaged but was still standing, and a wooden power pole had also been slightly damaged. The officer also noticed tire tracks from what appeared to be a truck or SUV backing into the damaged items.

The officer spoke to the complainant, who had heard a loud noise from inside the bank. The complainant saw two men at the scene examining the damage, and they appeared to be intoxicated. The offi cer was also provided with the vehicle’s license plate number. Pieces from the vehicle’s taillights and a fender flare were left behind at the scene. The officer used the plate number to locate the suspect’s house in Colby. The vehicle parked at the residence had damage consistent with the accident scene.

The driver of the vehicle came outside to speak with the officer. The officer said he appeared to be intoxicated by the way he was swaying and the fact that his eyes were bloodshot and glossy. The officer could also smell alcohol on his breath from a couple feet away. The driver claimed he only had three alcoholic drinks that day.

The driver had trouble maintaining his balance and following instructions while the officer conducted field sobriety tests. The officer also administered a preliminary breath test, which showed a blood-alcohol level of .265. He was arrested and taken to the police station, where he registered a .21 BAC on the breathalyzer. He was cited for drunk driving, driving without a license and driving without insurance. He was then released to a sober party.

_ Nov. 27 - An officer was patrolling Shortner Park in Abbotsford when he noticed a truck parked after the park’s closing hours. The officer stopped and informed the driver that the park was closed after 10 p.m., and the driver said he didn’t realize that. As they spoke, the officer could smell marijuana coming from inside the vehicle.

The officer asked about the marijuana, and the driver grabbed a plastic baggie containing the drug from his back seat. A female party in the vehicle said she had smoke some of the marijuana out of a chewing gum wrapper. The officer searched the vehicle and found a burnt gum wrapper inside a Pringle’s can. The driver was cited for possession of marijuana. The officer did not notice any signs of impairment, so the driver and his passenger were released.

_ Nov. 28 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford address in reference to an animal complaint. The complainant said a neighboring property owner let their dog run around freely, and it would frequently come and defecate on his land. The complainant said he plans on planting grass there next spring and doesn’t want the dog defecating there. The officer checked the location but did not see a dog running at large or notice any feces on the adjacent lot. He talked to the dog owner, warning her about any future complaints.

_ Nov. 28 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford apartment in reference to a possible disturbance. The officer and Clark County deputies made contact with the occupants of the apartment, and they all said that none of them had dialed 911. Officers were granted permission to look around, and they did not see anything unusual.

Officers also checked on an adjacent apartment after noticing a car there was parked diagonally. An officer spoke to several parties at the apartment and found out that one of them accidentally pressed the emergency button on her phone while calling for a ride. She said her car was not starting.

_ Nov. 28 - An officer was on patrol in Colby when he noticed a vehicle speeding on STH 13 near Washington Street. The officer activated his radar unit and tracked the vehicle going up to 42 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone. The officer pulled the vehicle near Monroe Street.

The officer met with the driver, who said she was just about home. The officer informed her that she had been speeding, and when asked for her driver’s license, she grabbed her wallet. She then informed the officer that she had left her driver’s license at a bar in Owen. The driver took several minutes to retrieve the insurance card from her wallet. The officer did not notice any alcohol smell as he spoke with the driver.

When asked how much she had to drink, the driver took a breath, clapped her hands together and said two beers. She denied drinking anything else or using any drugs. The officer had the driver do field sobriety tests, and she showed several signs of intoxication. The driver also registered a .217 blood-alcohol level on a preliminary breath test. She was arrested and taken to the police station, where she registered a .20 on the breathalyzer. She was cited for drunk driving and speeding and then released to a sober party.