Law Enforcement

n November 27 - An officer was on patrol in Abbotsford when he observed a car pull out of the parking lot of a local bar. As it backed out of its parking spot, it backed into another vehicle and continued on its way. The officer stopped the vehicle and as he approached the driver’s side of the vehicle, the officer could see a man crawling into the front passenger seat of the vehicle. There was no one else inside of the vehicle and no one else exited the vehicle. The officer opened the driver’s side door and told the man to exit the vehicle. As the man stepped out of the vehicle, the officer could smell the strong odor of alcohol coming from inside the vehicle and the man’s breath.

The officer ran the man’s information through dispatch and was told he does not have a Wisconsin driver’s license. The officer asked the man if he had been drinking. The man said no at first and then said he had one beer. The man agreed to go through standardized field sobriety tests and as the officer was attempting to administer the one leg stand test to the man, he began talking over the officer. The man was not listening so the officer asked the man if he wanted to do the test.

The man was attempting to do the walk and turn test again after he had already done it minutes prior. The officer again asked if the man wanted to do the one leg stand test and the man said he did not.

The officer placed the man under arrest for operating while intoxicated, first offense.

The officer then met with the owner of the vehicle that was struck who said he did not want to file an accident report.

The officer photographed the damage to both vehicles and transported the man under arrest to the Colby-Abby Police Department. The officer administered a intoximeter test and completed the citation for prohibited alcohol concentration.

The officer also issued the man citations for operating without a valid driver’s license, operating a motor vehicle without insurance and hit and run-unattended vehicle.

The man was then released to a responsible party.

n November 28 - An officer met with a woman in reference to a fraud complaint. The woman said she applied for a work from home job with a company. The woman said she was sent three checks from the company and said she deposited them into her bank account and then transferred the money to the company using cash apps.

The woman had a conversation with a Patrick Walker that said he works with the company and instructed her to deposit the money into a cash app. After the first check went through, she was told that she would be receiving another check as the cost of the items for her workspace had increased and more items needed to be purchased. The woman was emailed another check and was told again to transfer the money and send a screenshot once it was done.

The woman said that all three checks were now being held by the bank as possible fraud. The woman said she was scammed out of $4,318.93 in total. She said she tried to contact Walker but he will now not respond to her.

The woman said she contacted Venmo and was told to contact the company and work the problem out with them if possible or file a police report.

The officer said he would forward the report to Venmo and advised the woman to go to her bank and advise them of the scam.

n December 1 - An officer was made aware of a call from a manager at a local bank who said she had taken a call from a person who told her he had spoke with someone regarding some loans of his and that he got some news that had upset him. The manager told the man that he would have to speak with a loan officer at the Medford branch as they were not able to look into that information.

The man told her that he was going to come in and speak with them in person before ending the call abruptly. The manager was uneasy as the man was very angry as he spoke and every other word was an obscenity. The manager asked if someone from the department could stay in the area in case he came into the bank.

The officer sat nearby and ran plates of vehicles entering the property but did not locate any belonging to the man. Some time later, the manager came out and said that the man had already been inside the bank. The manager said they did not realize it was him as he had been very polite with the staff before leaving. They had received a picture from a different branch after the fact and realized the pleasant man had been the one they were worried about.

The officer was contacted by dispatch who said the man had been given a stalking warning letter the day prior in an unrelated incident in Loyal. No further contact was made at this time.

n December 2 - An officer was following a vehicle and ran the license plate through the Wisconsin Department of Justice computer system and found that the owner of the vehicle came back with a suspended driver’s license. The officer made contact with the driver who said he did not have a valid driver’s license.

Another officer arrived on-scene and deployed K9 Dodge to the vehicle. Dodge alerted to a controlled substance inside of the vehicle and the officer had the driver step out of the vehicle. The officer searched the driver and found nothing of interest on his person but the man did say there was a pistol in the glove box of the vehicle.

The officer searched the vehicle and found a black and clear vape pen with yellow liquid inside the center console. The officer located the handgun in the glove box compartment which was not loaded and also located a magazine with 10 rounds of ammunition inside of it.

The man stated the vape pen did not belong to him and instead belonged to his friend. The officer told the man that if the vape pen tested positive for a controlled substance, he would be issuing him a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia. The officer also told the man he would be taking the handgun and would be charging him for carrying a concealed firearm as the man did not have a concealed carry permit. The officer also issued the man a citation for operating while suspended.

The officer tested the vape pen for marijuana back at the police department. The test came back positive and the man will be issued a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia.

n December 2 - An officer was following a vehicle which had a license plate with paint coming off of it, making it hard for the officer to read. The officer initiated a traffic stop of the vehicle and met with the driver. The driver said she did not have insurance on the vehicle and another CAPD officer and K9 Dodge arrived on-scene.

K9 Dodge performed a free air sniff of the vehicle and alerted to a controlled substance inside of the vehicle. The officer asked the driver to step out of the vehicle and searched her. Nothing was located on the driver’s person and the officers searched the vehicle. The officers located a green leafy substance that was rolled up in a brown cigar wrapper near the front seat of the vehicle. The driver said everything in the vehicle belonged to her. The officer tested the substance at the police station later that night and the result came back as positive for marijuana. The driver will be issued a citations for possession of marijuana and operating a motor vehicle without insurance as well as a warning for improper display of license plates.

n December 2 - An officer was called to a Colby residence for a report of a disturbance. The officer arrived and met with a 16-year-old Colby juvenile who said he was walking past St. Mary’s Church on Second Street and then turned the corner and was walking east on Broadway Street. The boy said that when he got to a green house, a male got out of a car and started to threaten to murder him, shoot him and kill him.

The boy said he told the man to stop threatening him because he is not on his property and he is going to be calling the police because it is a federal offense to threaten a minor.

The officer asked the boy why the man would say those things to him. The boy said the man says he keeps going on his property but the boy said he crossed the street and never went onto the man’s property that day. The boy said he told the man he has not been on the property since the last time he got caught and got in trouble for being on the man’s property.

The officer went to speak to the man and a woman at the residence. The woman said the boy was near the garage at the end of the driveway and the man told the boy to stay away from their property. The woman said the boy was yelling obscenities and threats at the couple as he crossed the street and began to walk away. The officer was told that about a week prior to the incident, the boy had walked onto the porch at the same residence.

The boy has a history with the Colby-Abby Police Department of trespassing on properties looking for cigarette butts in ash trays and garbages. The boy has been issued two other trespass warning letters for two other properties in the same area.

The officer went back and spoke with the boy and told him he would be issuing him a formal trespass letter for the property. The boy was told if he goes back on the property, he could be cited or arrested for trespassing.

n December 3 - An officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle that was traveling 50 mph in a 30 mph zone in Colby. The officer made contact with the driver who said she did not know how fast she was going. A Clark County deputy arrived on-scene and deployed his K9 for a sniff of the vehicle. The K9 alerted to the presence of a controlled substance and the officers had the driver and passenger step out of the vehicle.

The passenger refused multiple requests by officers to have him exit the vehicle. Once the passenger exited the vehicle, the officer searched him and found a multicolored vape pen with a yellow substance inside.

A search of the vehicle followed in which officers located a red backpack on the front passenger floor of the vehicle with two vape items and cream marijuana cartridges. The officers also found two pink and yellow tobacco vape pens on the driver’s side of the vehicle.

The officer asked the passenger if the vape items and marijuana cartridges were his and he said they were but they were CBD. The officer informed the man they were not CBD as they contained nearly 90 percent THC. The officer told the man that if the multicolored vape pen with yellow substance inside of it tested positive for marijuana, the officer would be issuing him a citation for drug paraphernalia.

The officer tested the substance at the police station which came back positive for marijuana. The officer then mailed the man a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia.

n December 4 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in reference to a theft complaint. The officer was told the complainant had a video of the theft.

Upon arrival, the officer met with a woman outside of her apartment who said she had ordered some items online and that UPS had sent her a notification on Nov. 3 that the package was delivered to the address.

The woman said she was out of town for about four days when the package was delivered. The woman said that she had asked her neighbor, if he had seen a package and the man had told her he did not.

The woman said that on Friday, December 2, she had the apartment manager check the camera system to see if someone had taken the package. The woman had a copy of the video that she showed the officer. In the video, the officer could see a package sitting in front of the woman’s apartment door. The same neighbor she had asked if he had seen the package, exited his apartment in the video to have a cigarette. The man looked at the package and then grabbed it and put it in front of his apartment. That was the end of the video.

The officer then went and spoke to the neighbor. The man said he was upset the woman was accusing him of taking the package.

The officer explained the video footage showed the man moving the package. The man said it was raining the day it was delivered so he moved it under the overhang by his apartment door so it would not get wet. The man said he went to work that day and the package was gone when he came home.

The man said there were other people in the apartment that had moved out and thought the package could have belonged to them. The officer asked the man if he knew that someone else moved in. The man said that he did but the people in the apartment were out of town for a week when the package was delivered.

The officer asked the man if he told the woman that he had moved the package out of the rain. The man said it had slipped his mind after he moved the package and never thought about it again. The officer told the man that on his next shift he would watch the rest of the video footage and if it shows him putting the package in his apartment, he would be charged with theft.

The officer went back and spoke with the woman. The officer said he would speak to the manager on the next shift and watch more of the video.