COLBY-ABBOTSFORD POLICE

L OG _ Dec. 6 - An officer responded to a Colby residence in reference to a theft complaint. He met with a woman who said her purse had been taken out of her vehicle while she was at the Christmas parade in Abbotsford. The complainant said she last saw her purse at around 7 p.m. that previous Saturday. She said she looked everywhere for purse, but could not find it.

The complainant said she was in the process of replacing all of the items in her purse. The officer advised her to be on the lookout for possible identity theft.

The officer checked a security camera near where the theft allegedly occurred, but he didn’t see anything in the surveillance footage. The officer noted that the exact time and location when the purse went missing is unknown.

_ Dec. 6 - An officer took a walk-in complaint of an auto theft from an Abbotsford woman. The complainant said she had met a man online and they hung out a few times over the past eight months. She said on Nov. 28, he messaged her and wanted to borrow her vehicle so he could go grocery shopping. She said said he never returned the vehicle after borrowing it.

The complainant said she tried contacting him through the online messaging app, but he blocked her. She said she went to the house he had been staying at, but his neighbors said he had moved away. The only lead she had was that he had family in Indiana. She said she also had family living in the same city in Indiana, and they could take the vehicle back if it was found there.

The officer called the police department in Indiana to have them check for the vehicle. An officer checked on the residence in question and talked to two male subjects living there, but they did not know the suspect. The officer also tried calling a phone number provided by the suspect, but it did not accept incoming calls.

_ Dec. 6 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a disturbance. Dispatch reported that a couple was arguing, and a male party had hit his girlfriend and possibly had a knife.

The officer arrived and encountered a male subject leaving the building. The officer had the man show him his hands and he frisked him for weapons, but not find anything. The male subject said he his girlfriend had been arguing because she suspected him of cheating on her, but he said it never got physical and he never had a knife.

The officer also spoke to the girlfriend, who initially claimed that her boyfriend had chased her around the apartment with a knife and hit her on the chin. She then said those incidents happened in the past. She did not have any marks on her chin and she eventually admitted that nothing physical happened that night.

The officer ran the both parties’ names through dispatch, and the boyfriend came back as being a registered sex offender in Massachusetts. The boyfriend did not think he had to register in Wisconsin. He was arrested for a sex offender registration violation and taken to Clark County Jail.

_ Dec. 7 - An officer was informed of a teenager in Abbotsford who had an active arrest warrant. The officer was in the process of trying to track down the juvenile when the teen came into the police station with his mother. The teen posted the $200 bond to clear the warrant, and he was given a new court date.

_ Dec. 7 - An officer responded to an Abbotsford address in reference to an abandoned vehicle complaint. The officer spoke with a man who was renting a building at the address. He said a Cadillac was parked behind the building, and he had been told it had been parked there for two years. The officer ran the license plate number and got a name and address for the owner.

The officer went to the owner’s last known address in Abbotsford, but the people there said he hadn’t lived there in at least three years. The officer also found a phone number for a known associate of the vehicle owner. He called her, and she said he was at work and would not be able to respond at that time. The officer told her to relay a message to him that he needed to remove the vehicle by that weekend. The associate said she could arrange that.

_ Dec. 7 - An officer was asked to speak with a Colby man in reference to a possible theft complaint. The complainant said his stepson had been picked up from his father’s place, and said that his father had broken his cell phone. The complainant said he had bought the cell phone for his stepson, and his father had no right to break it. He the phone was valued at $500.

The officer contacted the father, who admitted to throwing the phone in a trash can when his son would not answer him about who who was sending him messages. He said his son wasn’t doing well in school and he believed his mother should have taken his phone privileges away.

The officer told the father that his actions were unacceptable and that he would need to pay for a new phone. The father agreed to pay for a new phone.

_ Dec. 8 - An officer was dispatched to a Colby residence in reference to a runaway juvenile who wanted to turn herself in. The officer with the juvenile and confirmed that she was a runaway out of Green Bay. She said she did not want to run anymore and just wanted to go home. The officer contacted the juvenile’s mother, who said the girl’s grandmother would be able to pick her up. The officer took the juvenile to the police station to wait for her grandmother, who later arrived.

_ Dec. 8 - An officer spoke to an Abbotsford woman regarding a fraud complaint. The complainant said her husband had ordered a tool box for $98.98 from a company that she later learned was fake. She said Pay-Pal was handling the investigation, and they requested that a police report be filed.

_ Dec. 8 - An officer was dispatched to a Colby residence in reference to possible restraining order violation. The officer spoke to a woman who was concerned about a male subject violating a restraining order that her daughter had in place. She suspected that the subject’s truck was parked in the lot where her daughter goes to school. The officer went to the school and saw a truck matching the complainant’s description. The officer checked with the school staff, who said the male subject had not been at the school that day. The officer relayed this message to the complainant.

_ Dec. 9 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford apartment in reference to a disturbance between two female parties. The officer met with the complainant, who said a female party had pushed against a wall while she was walking through the hallway. The complainant said the woman had accused her of sleeping with her boyfriend. The complainant denied it, and the woman got upset and pushed her against the wall. She told the woman to let her go, and she did. She said the woman has been harassing her for awhile.

The officer located the suspect, who immediately admitted to pushing the complainant. When the officer asked her why she thought the complainant was sleeping with her boyfriend, she said she had noticed footprints in the snow outside the complainant’s apartment and knew they belonged to her boyfriend. The suspect kept asking if she was going to be taken to jail.

The officer arrested the suspect for disorderly conduct.

_ Dec. 10 - An abandoned bicycle was found in the 100 block of WestCedarStreetinAbbotsford. An officer retrieved the bike on the south side of the road just east of the railroad tracks. The officer photographed the bike and took it into storage.

_ Dec. 10 - An officer was informed of a gas drive-off at a gas station in Abbotsford. The clerk provided the officer a receipt for $48.72 and said the driver had taken off in a red minivan. The officer ran the license plate number, but it did not come back as registered to any vehicle.

_ Dec. 11 - An officer was parked along STH 13 in Abbotsford when his radar unit indicated a vehicle going 44 miles per hour in a posted 25 mph zone. The officer entered the road and tried to catch up to the vehicle. The vehicle increased its speed, widening the distance between itself and the squad. The officer noticed his own speed was 65 mph before the other vehicle started to slow down. The officer activated his emergency siren, but the vehicle continued to move away. He started his siren a second time, and the vehicle pulled over near Hornet Drive.

As the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed a small child standing up on the rear bench of the truck, looking through the rear windshield. When the officer initially met with the driver, she was holding her head with one hand. The officer asked her if she was OK, and said she yes. She then asked the officer “What do you want?” The officer noticed the driver’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot, and her speech was slow and slightly slurred.

While the officer was back at his squad, running the driver’s license through dispatch, the driver leaned out of her door and vomited on the road. She said she was not feeling well, and that it was probably something she ate. When asked how much she had to drink, she said she had three shots. The officer also asked her the age of the child in the vehicle. She said four.

The officer had the driver exit the vehicle for field sobriety tests. She had trouble maintaining her balance during the tests. She also submitted to a prelimi­nary breath test, which showed a blood-alcohol level of .112. She was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, and her sister was called to come and pick up the child. The driver was taken to the police station, where she refused to provide a blood sample. A warrant was obtained, and blood samples were taken at a hospital in Medford.

The driver was cited for drunk driving with a passenger under 16, driving while suspended, speeding (16-19 mph over) and violating child safety restraints.

_ Dec. 12 - An officer spoke with themanagerof anAbbotsfordapartment building in reference to possible drug activity. She said one of the tenants had been acting increasingly paranoid, and claimed that people were smoking marijuana in his apartment. She said the tenant had just showed up at her place, and was very intoxicated and scared. He told her there were three men in his apartment and they knew his door code, even though she had changed it twice.

The complainant said the tenant had hid in her office until the men left and he did not want to get the police involved. She said she had noticed several different vehicles coming and going from the tenant’s apartment. She said the male subjects all left in an expensive-looking yellow SUV. The complainant requested extra patrols in the area.