COLBY-ABBOTSFORD POLICE

L OG _ Jan. 17 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a civil dispute. He met with a woman who had purchased a truck from a man who was now trying to take it back. The seller had a flatbed trailer there to retrieve the vehicle.

The complainant explained that she had agreed to purchase the vehicle in mid-December for $1,500 but was only able to pay $850 up front. She said she had driven the vehicle for several weeks before the engine blew up, and she was trying to get it fixed. The seller said he would get the truck fixed but he needed the title back so he could do so.

The seller said the license plates on the truck were still registered to him, so he believed the truck still technically belonged to him. The officer looked at the title and saw the complainant’s signature on the “buyer” line and seller’s name under the signature line.

The officer told the seller that the truck legally belonged to the complainant, and he would have to go to civil court if he wanted to get it back. Otherwise, he said he could be charged with auto theft.

The seller unhooked the vehicle and apologized for involving the police.

_ Jan. 18 - An officer responded to an animal complaint at a Colby residence. He met with the complainant, who said his neighbor recently got two dogs, which are running onto his property and defecating on his lawn.

He also expressed concerns about the dogs consuming mouse poison he had placed on his property for pest control. The officer talked to the dog owner, who said she is still trying to get the dogs accustomed to their boundaries. She said she would keep them on a leash while they are outside.

_ Jan. 18 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford address in reference to a disturbance. The caller said a male and female were arguing very loudly when walking down the street, and they hit each other.

The officer arrived and met with each of the parties separately. They both said that nothing physical happened while they were arguing. The female party said her boyfriend grabbed her arm at one point when she tried turning in the opposite direction.

The officer said he didn’t think they were telling him the whole story. He said they would each be receiving citations for disorderly conduct.

_ Jan. 18 - An officer responded to an alarm going off at a bar in Abbotsford. He checked the building and saw that the windows were intact and the front door was locked.

He contacted the key holder, who said the upstairs tenant had accidentally set off the alarm when he entered the business to retrieve his cell phone. The key holder said he would attempt to reset the alarm using his cell phone.

_ Jan. 18 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford apartment complex in reference to a vehicle damage report. He met with the complainant, who pointed out several scratches and a dent on his vehicle.

He said it happened when another set of tenants parked their vehicle next to his and were unloading items out of the back end. The officer went to the other tenants’ apartment and spoke with them about the incident.

The owner of the truck said he was careful to make sure his vehicle doors did not touch the complainant’s vehicle, as the complainant had made similar complaints in the past.

The truck owner pointed out far away his tire track were away from the complainant’s vehicle. The officer also the apartment manager to check the surveillance footage.

The manager said the camera pointed at the complainant’s car was not working during the incident. The manager said the complainant contacted her and said he would be parking his vehicle in a different location to avoid future conflicts.

_ Jan. 19 - An officer took a phone complaint from a woman who was concerned about the living conditions where her two daughters were living. She said her ex-husband’s place in Colby is in horrible condition, with canine feces and urine, along with rotting food and insects, on the floor.

The complainant said she had received a photo from one of her daughters showing insect bites on the legs of another child living at the residence. The officer recalled that he had visited the same apartment in the past and remembered the smell of feces and rotting food.

He said he would pass the complainant’s report on to the day shift officer and also to the Clark County Department of Social Services.

_ Jan. 20 - An officer was dispatched to a Colby bar in reference to a disturbance between the bartender and two patrons. The caller said a glass bottle had been thrown during an argument.

The officer arrived and spoke with the bartender. She said the two patrons had been causing problems. She said she knew one of them was 21 so she served him a beer. The other patron did not have any identification, so she declined to serve him.

She said they started giving her a hard time, and then 21-year-old patron ordered another beer so he could give it to the one without any ID. She refused to serve him another beer, and he started arguing with her.

The bartender said she got upset and asked them to leave the bar. She said her hand began to shake because she “likes to throw punches” when she gets upset. She said she grabbed the 21-year-old patron’s empty beer bottle it and slipped and fell to the ground, breaking. She said the one without ID asked her if she “wanted to go” in reference to fighting.

She said she walked to the rear of the bar to cool off and the two patrons left.

The bartender said she had a history of trouble with one of the patrons, who had tried to run her off the road in the past. The officer advised her to notify the bar owner of the incident to see if he wanted them banned from the establishment.

She said a disorderly conduct situation would not help the situation.

_ Jan. 21 - An officer ran the license plate of a vehicle parked at an apartment complex in Abbotsford. The plates came back as registered to a stolen vehicle, but it was a different make and model than the one seen by the officer.

He called the Clark County Sheriff’s Department and approached the vehicle with his firearm unholstered. As soon as he saw a woman in the driver’s seat with a very young child next to her, he reholstered his weapon.

He checked the vehicle’s status using the vehicle identifi cation number, and it came back as registered to someone living in Brodhead.

The driver said she had purchased the vehicle from someone in Madison two days earlier, but didn’t need to pay for it until Feb. 18. She said she knew the seller online and met him one time in person.

When asked if the seller had the title for the vehicle, she said she didn’t know. The officer also asked her why the wrong registration plates were on the vehicle. She said she didn’t think anything was wrong with the transaction.

The officer contacted the Madison Police Department, who advised him to remove the license plates from the vehicle. The officer also contacted the Brodhead Police Department to make sure the vehicle itself had not been stolen.

Someone called him back and said the vehicle had been stolen but was never reported as such. The officer informed the driver that the vehicle she had purchased was stolen and it would be towed from the scene.

She said she was staying with a friend at the apartments so she did not need to get anywhere.

_ Jan. 22 - An officer was dispatched to an Abbotsford residence in reference to a 911 hangup. Dispatch called back the caller, who said she had accidentally pressed the emergency button on her phone.

The officer met with a female party and two male parties. She said she accidentally called 911. The house seemed to be in order, and the officer positively identified all three of the parties there before leaving.

_ Jan. 23 - An officer spoke to a man regarding a child custody dispute involving his ex-wife. He said their custody arrangement stated that the children would be exchanged at 6 p.m. in Abbotsford, but his ex had arrived an hour earlier and then returned to her home in New Richmond when she saw that no one wasn’t there.

The complainant said his parents were still at the drop off point with his children. The officer advised him that they could leave the exchange point. The complainant expressed frustration to the offi cer that his ex was not being charged with child custody interference.

_ Jan. 23 - An officer responded to a report of a gas skip at a Colby gas station. A clerk provided the officer with a receipt for $18.36 in unpaid gasoline and a license plate number of the vehicle. The license plate came as registered to someone from Appleton.

The officer contacted the vehicle owner, who said he did not realize the credit card transaction did not go through. He contacted the gas station and made arrangements for the gas to be paid for.

_ Jan. 23 - An officer received a report of a car stolen from an Abbotsford residence. He spoke to the owner, who said he had been in Indiana to pick up a friend, and when he returned, he noticed his vehicle was missing. He said he had left a spare set of keys inside.

The complainant said some of his friends knew about the key, but he had not called around to see if anyone had taken the vehicle. He provided a description of the vehicle, which matched the one of a vehicle recently found in a ditch on STH 13 and Adams Street in Colby.

The vehicle had several open containers of alcohol inside, and there was no one around when police discovered it.

The officer asked the complainant if he had been drinking. He said no and proved it by blowing a .00 blood-alcohol content on a preliminary breath test.

The officer also spoke to one of the complainant’s roommates, who said he did not see anything related to the missing vehicle. The complainant’s other roommate had left for work before the officer arrived.

The officer advised the complainant to ask around to see if anyone borrowed his vehicle without his permission. He was told that his vehicle could be retrieved at a local towing company’s lot.

_ Jan. 23 - An officer took a report of a suspicious vehicle in Abbotsford. The caller said she first noticed the van parked in her neighbor’s driveway, even though it did not belong there.

She said the van drove off as she was pulling out of her driveway. When she returned home, she said the van was parked across the street from her house. She said it drove away again when she arrived. She did not get a license plate, but provided a photo from her security camera.

It showed a light blue van, possibly a Dodge Grand Caravan. The officer checked the area, but did not see the van in question.

_ Jan. 23 - An officer was dispatched to a Dorchester residence to assist with a Clark County deputy on a domestic disturbance call. When he arrived, the deputy was speaking to a female party out in the hallway of an apartment. A male party inside the apartment gave the officer permission to enter.

The officer noticed food splattered across the walls of the kitchen. While the officer waited with the male party, the party was consuming vodka.

The deputy entered the apartment and had the male party submit to a preliminary breath test. The deputy told him he was under arrest and asked him to place his hands behind his back.

The suspect kept his left arm in front of his body and had to be told several times to move his arm before he could be handcuffed. Because the suspect did not have a shirt, the officer got permission to obtain one from his bedroom.

While retrieving the shirt, the officer heard the sounds of a struggle in the other room. When he returned to the living room, the suspect was laying on a chair while the deputy was holding his arms.

The suspect said he wanted one more drink before he went to jail. The suspect was ordered multiple times to stand The suspect said he wanted one more drink before he went to jail. The suspect was ordered multiple times to stand up, but he refused to do so. The officer and deputy attempted to lift him up, and he went to his knees. The suspect continued to used his legs in an attempt to stop the officers from walking him out of the apartment and out to the squad car.

The officer had to help the deputy get the suspect into the squad before he cleared the scene.

_ Jan. 23 - An officer spoke to the employee of a local gas station who believed someone was following her. The complainant said about a week earlier someone had been pounding on the door of her apartment.

She did not answer the door but texted a family member who lives in the same apartment complex. The family member observed someone running from outside her door and into a Ram truck. The previous day, the complainant said she noticed several footprints in the snow leading up to her apartment. The complainant suspected it was a former co-worker of hers who was “obsessed” with her and drove a Ram truck. She said she reached out to him, but he denied any involvement.

The officer tracked down records for the suspect, but his truck he owned was much older than the one photographed by the complainant.