COLBY-ABBOTSFORD POLICE

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_ April 26 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a suspicious activity complaint. The woman who called thought that someone may have entered her house while she was gone.

The complainant was standing in her driveway when the officer arrived. She said she had just arrived home from work, and when she went to unlock her door, it was already unlocked and opened slightly. She thought she had locked it before going to work.

Two Clark County deputies arrived and helped the officer search the residence. No one was found inside, nothing looked out of place, and there were no signs of forced entry.

_ April 26 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a theft complaint. He met with a couple who said items had been stolen out of both their vehicles, which had been left unlocked in their driveway. The female party said her purse and wallet were missing, and inside was an ID card, a check and several cards. The male party said $35 was stolen from his vehicle. The officer advised both of them to start locking their vehicles.

_ April 28 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford neighborhood in reference to a suspicious activity complaint. The caller said a male subject was “messed up” and “running around.”

The officer met with a male subject and his friend, who was holding him so he wouldn’t fall. The male subject threatened to hurt the officer if the officer touched him. When asked for identification, the subject said he didn’t do anything wrong and didn’t need to identify himself. The officer could smell alcohol on the man’s breath, and the man admitted to being 18.

The subject continued walking away from the officer, and when the officer told him to stop, he did not listen. The man walked into the side of a parked pick-up truck on North Fourth Avenue and nearly fell. He then regained his balance and started running through a nearby field toward Third Avenue. The officer got back into his squad vehicle and followed the subject, who was pushing his friend away as he ran.

The officer got out of his vehicle on Third Avenue near Larch Street. He told the subject to stop, but he kept walking south on Third. The officer continued to follow him to the intersection with Hemlock Street. The subject ran through a nearby backyard in an attempt to get away, but then he turned around and started walking north on Third.

A Clark County deputy arrived, and he and the officer both exited their vehicles and tried to get the subject to stop. He ran away through a yard near the intersection of Third and Hemlock, but the deputy caught up to him, directed him to the ground and handcuffed him. He was then escorted back to the officer’s squad.

The subject continued to yell as he was placed in the squad vehicle. The officer read him his Miranda rights, and the subject claimed he didn’t understand and wanted them read again. The officer repeated the rights, and the subject said he needed a translator. The officer told the subject to move his right foot back into the rear of the squad, but he refused several times to comply, so the officer removed him from the vehicle and directed him to the ground. The subject yelled out several times for the officer to shoot him.

The subject refused to provide his name, but he agreed to sit on the curb until a translator arrived. The subject repeatedly interrupted the officer as he tried to read him his Miranda rights. The officer and a Clark County deputy tried to get the subject back into the officer’s squad, but he started resisting and kicked the deputy between his legs before they were able to get him back in the vehicle.

The subject was transported to Clark County Jail, where he continued to resist as jail staff took him into their custody. A search of the subject revealed a credit card that had been stolen from a vehicle in Abbotsford two days earlier.

_ April 29 - An officer responded to a report of an SUV that was all over the road on STH 13 as it approached Abbotsford from the north. The officer located the vehicle and got behind it after it turned west onto Spruce Street. As it passed Bezak Drive, it began to slowly drift to the center of the road. It eventually moved all the way into the eastbound lane of traffic, and the officer pulled it over.

As the officer approached the driver’s side window, he could see an open beer can with liquid spilled on the passenger’s seat floor mat. The driver was looking through her wallet when she noticed the officer at the window. The officer waved at her and she waved back. The officer then knocked on her window so she would roll it down.

When asked why she thought she had been pulled over, the driver said it was because she had been speeding. The officer informed her that she had been driving on the wrong side of the road. She admitted to having three beers, but when asked how big they were, she said “six pack.”

The officer had the driver exit her vehicle for field sobriety tests, and she showed several signs of intoxication. She agreed to submit a breath sample, which showed a bloodalcohol level of .201. She was arrested and taken to the police station, where a breathalyzer showed her BAC at .16. She was cited for drunk driving (third offense) and released to a sober party.

_ April 30 - An officer was on STH 13 in Colby when he noticed a vehicle with a headlight out. The officer pulled the vehicle over near East Washington Street, and identified the driver and her passenger.

Both the driver and passenger had suspended driver’s licenses, and the passenger was on probation for felony stalking and intimidation, with the condition that he not have any contact with the driver. The officer contacted the probation office, and a probation hold was placed on the passenger, so he was taken into custody. The driver was cited for driving with a suspended license and warned about the headlight.

The passenger was taken to Clark County Jail, where a search by jail staff uncovered a glass pipe with marijuana reside inside his coat pocket. A citation for possession of drug paraphernalia was issued.

_ May 1 - An officer started an investigation of a scam complaint reported by a Colby resident. The complainant said he had purchased a stereo sound mixer through Facebook’s marketplace, from a man in Superior. He said the package had not arrived, so his wife contacted the seller, who started giving her excuses about shipping problems and personal issues in his life.

The complainant said he was starting to suspect it was a scam. The officer looked into the seller’s name and found a scam complaint that was similar. The officer called the complainant back and left him a voicemail about what he had found.

_ May 2 - An officer was on patrol in Colby when he ran the license plate of a vehicle on STH 13. The registered owner of the vehicle came back as not having a valid driver’s license, so the offi cer pulled the vehicle over.

The driver started to get out of his vehicle as the officer approached. The officer instructed himtositbackdownandhecomplied. When the officer reached the driver, he could see that his eyes were glassy and smell alcohol coming from inside the vehicle. The driver was asked to exit the vehicle, and when he did, the officer could see an open beer bottle and beer can in the center console.

The driver agreed to do field sobriety and submit a breath sample, which showed a bloodalcohol content of .223. He was arrested and brought to the police station, when he agreed to have a blood test done. The officer was transporting the driver to Marshfield for a blood draw when the driver started having a hard time breathing. The officer pulled his squad over to the side of the road and called for ambulance. EMTs arrived and took him to the hospital, where he was medically evaluated. Blood was also drawn to test his bloodalcohol content.

_ May 2 - An officer was dispatched to an Colby residence in reference to a suspicious juvenile subject. The complainant said she was outside in her yard when the male subject just showed up. The subject, age 8, did not speak English.

With a translation help from someone on scene, the officer tried to determine the boy’s name, age and address. The offi cer noticed bruising under the subject’s eyes, so he also asked questions about that. The officer was getting conflicting information from the subject, so he decided to arrange an interview at the police station with an interpreter.

When asked about the bruising under his eyes, the boy said he had fallen on the floor, but he also said he hit himself and injured himself at school. The boy was also asked what he had done that afternoon. He said his mom was at work, so he was at his babysitter’s house. He said he had been given permission to play at a nearby park and pray at a church. When asked where his babysitter’s house was, he gave the location of the complainant’s house where he was found. The officer told the boy that the complainant did not know who he was, but the boy did not explain this.

The boy also provided conflicting information about where his mom worked and where he goes to school. The officer contacted social services and spoke to someone there about a basic plan going forward. The officer returned the boy to the apartment building where he said he lived. At first, he tried to enter the wrong apartment before they located the right one.

A man answered the door at the apartment. He said the boy has autism and he looks after him when his mother is at work. The man said he was sleeping when the boy left. The boy’s mother arrived at the apartment. In regards to the bruising under her son’s eyes, she said he had injured himself at school. She said they live in Rib Lake and that’s where he goes to school.

The officer told the mother and the babysitter that he would be providing a copy of his report to social services to see if any follow-up action was needed.

_ May 2 - An officer took a theft complaint from an Abbotsford man over the phone. The complainant said someone had stolen his vehicle’s license plate while it was parked inside his garage. He said he noticed the plate was missing when he left for work the previous morning.

The complainant said he did not want to press charges, but he was worried the plate could be used to commit a crime that would be tied back to him. He talked about re-registering the vehicle, but the officer advised him to cancel the plates and get new ones issues.