COLBY-ABBOTSFORD POLICE LOG

_ April 10 - An officer met with a woman in regards to a child custody arrangement. She was at the police station to hand over custody of her daughter with the father. She said the custody arrangement required that each parent be absolutely sober during the exchanges or else they would forfeit custody of the child. The complainant had been drinking and requested a preliminary breath test.

The father was approached and asked if he had been drinking. He said no, but agreed to submit a breath sample for a preliminary test. His breath registered a blood-alcohol level of .03. He said he had been drinking the night before and figured he’d be sober by then. Per the court order, he was not allowed to take custody of the child.

_ April 11 - An officer was dispatched to a Colby residence in reference to a disturbance between two men in the front yard, including one wielding a baseball bat. The officer began talking to one of the parties, but the other started yelling that he was telling lies.

One of the men admitted he was carrying a baseball bat as self defense.

The two men were father and son, and the father was trying to evict the son from the house. The son said he got upset when he saw all of his belongings packed up and tossed around. He claimed he had not received an eviction notice. He also said his father escalated their confrontation by coming at him with a guitar, though he did not hit him with it. The son loaded his belongings into his truck and then went out to the garage to gather more of his possessions. He said his father came into the garage and grabbed a bat while they continued arguing. He said he pushed his father and his father responded by hitting him in the shin with the bat. The son said his father then grabbed his truck keys and called the police.

The father said his son was being evicted for coming home high or drunk all the time and wanting to fight. He said his son became confrontational and got up in his face, so at first he grabbed his guitar and then a baseball bat as self-defense. When the son was in the garage, the father said he could hear things being thrown around and he was worried about his motorcycles. He said he entered the garage, and his son pushed him to the ground. In response, he said he hit his son in the shin with a baseball bat. After he grabbed the keys from his son’s truck, he said his son swung him around and punched him in the nose, possibly breaking it. The officer did observe a slight curve in his nose.

The father did not want to press charges but he did want his son removed from the property. The officer also spoke to a witness who was on scene. He didn’t see much but said both parties did a lot to escalate the confrontation. The son was arrested to domestic disorderly conduct and taken to Clark County Jail. Injuries on both parties were photographed for the record.

_ April 11 - An officer met with a woman at the police station regarding suspicious activity targeting her car. She said about two months ago, one of her tires went flat and she believed it had been cut. About a month later, the same thing happened again. She said she came to the police station that day because she noticed a small mark or cut in her tire again.

The officer looked at the tire, but the cut did not seem to have been made by an edged blade. The complainant did not have suspects in mind, but did say she and her family do not get along. The officer said he would have extra patrols done near her residence.

_ April 11 - An officer was informed of a gas drive-off at an Abbotsford gas station. A station employee said the driver chose the “pay inside” option, and then came in and said he would not pay for the gas until he returned to the station later that evening. When he did not return, a cashier printed off a receipt and provided it to the officer. The name on the receipt belonged to a male subject with a Stetsonville address. Dispatch reported that he had a felony warrant out for his arrest and that he was on probation. The officer put out an attempt-to-locate and also called the subject’s probation officer.

The following day, the officer received a photograph of the subject, to be used to confirm his identity by comparing to the gas station surveillance video. The officer also spoke to the registered owner of the vehicle, who had just sold it to the suspect, who said he would register the vehicle in his own name.

_ April 13 - The owner of a laundromat in Colby reported that three coin boxes had been damaged and about $50 in coins had been stolen. He said someone had drilled out the locks on all three boxes and stolen the quarters inside. He said it would cost about $75 to replace the three coin boxes. He said the laundromat automatically locks at 10 p.m. every night. He requested additional patrol around the building.

_ April 14 - Officers were dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a disturbance. The officer spoke to a woman who said her son was upset because he had brought home some steaks and they were now missing. She said her son had flipped over a chair before leaving the house. The officer also spoke to two housemates who saw the son throwing food on the ground and yelling. One woman said the son called her an obscene name and knocked over a chair in the kitchen. She said his behavior frightened her.

The son returned to the residence while the officer was still there. He stumbled as he came around his vehicle and he had alcohol on his breath. When the officer what had happened, he said he “pretty much went off the deep end” after one of his housemates raised his voice at him. He denied throwing anything around but acknowledged that a chair got knocked over. The officer asked him how much he had to drink that day and he denied consuming any alcohol. The officer said he could smell alcohol on his breath, and he had noticed an open bottle of vodka in the house. The son eventually admitted to having just one shot.

The son agreed to field sobriety tests. He had trouble maintaining his balance during the tests. He also submitted to a preliminary breath test, which showed a .031 blood-alcohol content. He also admitted to taking Xanax. Due to this, the officer arrested him for operating under the influence and domestic disorderly conduct. He was taken to a hospital for a blood draw and then taken to Clark County Jail.

_ April 14 - A woman called to report harassment at her workplace. The complainant said she had previously spoke to an officer about a woman harassing her at her place of employment. She said the woman had returned to the store where she works, and her sister was with her. She said the woman’s sister made a scene, talking loudly about her, but the woman did not say anything. She asked her employers to ban the woman and his sister from the store, but they did not want to get involved. The officer told the complainant to block the sister on her phone and all social media. He said he would talk to the sister and tell her to leave the complainant alone.

_ April 15 - An officer was dispatched to a Colby residence in reference to a disturbance. The officer was met by a woman who said she wanted another woman arrested for assault. The complainant was there to pick up her daughter, and while she was doing so, she said her exboyfriend’s current girlfriend had pushed her. She admitted to raising her hand to the other woman but did not hit back.

The officer went inside the residence and spoke to the exboyfriend and his girlfriend. They said an argument had started over how they were disciplining the complainant’s daughter. The girlfriend said she told the complainant to leave the residence and was going to open the door when the complainant pushed her. She said she pushed her back. The officer spoke to the complainant again, and she denied pushing the girlfriend during the confrontation.

The officer spoke to all the parties about how the parenting responsibilities should be shared. The father of the child in question agreed to no longer have custody exchanges with his current girlfriend present. The officer advised the complainant not to enter her ex-boyfriend’s house on her own to avoid any further confrontations.

_ April 16 - An officer observed a vehicle traveling left of the center line on North First Street in Abbotsford. He ran the vehicle’s license plate, and the registered owner came back as having a suspended driver’s license. The officer pulled the vehicle over and met with the driver, who had an open can of beer in his center cupholder. When asked, the driver said he had consumed four cans of beer that day. The officer had the driver hand him the beer, and it was dumped out on scene. Dispatch confirmed that the driver did not have a valid license.

The driver agreed to do field sobriety tests. The driver had difficulty following instructions. When asked again how many beers he had, the driver said five, including the one in the car. He was arrested and taken to the police station, where he registered a .25 blood alcohol content on the breathalyzer. The driver was cited for drunk driving and released to a sober party.

_ April 16 - An officer responded to a civil complaint from a tenant living in Abbotsford. The tenant said she had been renting a place from a man who was in jail, and his father and girlfriend were handling the landlord duties. She said she had received a written eviction notice but had asked for an extension because her next apartment would not be ready until May. She said she was going to stay in the apartment until she received a formal court order or until the other apartment was ready.

The tenant said her landlords had shut off the water and the heat and taken out a thermostat. She said she was using the stove to get some heat in the residence. An officer spoke to the owner’s father, who said the city had turned off the water. He denied removing the thermostat and said it could have been the owner’s girlfriend. The officer told him that he would have to go through the full eviction process before the court ordered the tenant removed.

The owner’s father contacted the owner’s girlfriend, who returned the thermostat in the mailbox. It still wouldn’t work because it required an internet connection, and the internet had been shut off. The tenant told the officer that she had purchased a space heater for her room and was wearing her jacket around the house.

_ April 16 - An officer responded to a report of a gas drive-off at a station in Abbotsford. The cashier said the driver had pumped about $15 worth of gas but did not have the money to pay for it when she was in the station the day before. The woman provided a voided Wisconsin ID card as identification, and the cashier wrote down her license plate number, but the woman never returned to pay for her gas. The officer called the woman in question, and she claimed she was not getting paid for another 30 days. The offi cer said her Wisconsin ID card would be available at the police station whenever she paid for the gas.

_ April 17 - An Abbotsford resident requested extra patrol in his neighborhood in response to a truck repeatedly speeding by his house at random times of the day. He estimated the truck was going about 50 miles per hour on Elm Street. He said it was a black and silver early 2000s Chevy diesel truck with an extended bed.

_ April 17 - An officer was pulling out of the police station parking lot when he saw a large group of people on the sidewalk. He noticed several male individuals in close proximity to each other, so he pulled his squad back into the parking lot and separated the parties involved. He met with a male subject who was upset. He said his girlfriend had just broken up with him and he wanted to take their son with him. He said he had just dropped his ex-girlfriend off at her mother’s place, and there was an argument over custody. Another officer on the scene spoke to the ex-girlfriend and her mother, and it was decided that the father would leave with the child.

Before he could leave, though, someone in the group told the exgirlfriend to “tell them the truth about what happened.” The officer asked the ex-girlfriend to explain this. She said the father of her child had followed her into her mother’s house, pushed her up against a wall and choked her for about one minute. She said he eventually left the residence but started walking back after she said something out the door to him. She said she locked the door, so he went to another door and started banging on it. She said this caught the attention of several male subjects in the house. She said her ex-boyfriend re-entered the house and grabbed her by her sweatshirt and tried to push her outside. She said several male individuals pulled him off of her and got between them. That’s when the police showed up, she said.

Officers spoke to several witnesses who confirmed the woman’s story. The ex-boyfriend was arrested for assault and taken to Clark County Jail.