911 calls from 5/18-5/25

Monday, May 18
• 10:50 a.m. — A man called 911 to report his neighbor for “littering” as the neighbor was hitting golf balls onto his property.

Wednesday, May 20
• 4:11 p.m. — A female employee at Gambles Hardware called 911 and requested an officer as they had caught two young kids spray painting the side of the building after they had just bought the cans from the store.
• 5:29 p.m. — A 12-year-old boy was reported driving a green Buick in Pablo with two older males who were HBD (had been drinking) in the backseat. Hey, at least they got a designated driver.

Thursday, May 21
• 12:48 p.m. — A man called 911 to report that he is driving northbound back through the Highway 93 construction by Arlee and saw a white Mazda pickup with a canopy over it and there is “a bunch people inside trying to get air” who the driver described as “Mexican.” When they attempted to raise the canopy the reporting party said that the driver got angry and banged on the window.
The man found this “suspicious” and was afraid that “they are Mexicans and with swine flu going on he doesn’t want them around.”

Saturday, May 23
• 6:22 a.m. — A woman advised dispatchers that she was at Kerr Dam Overlook when another woman tried to “run into her with her car.”
• 1:15 p.m. — A man called 911 and advised that his neighbors are still “shooting golf balls” toward his house.
• 2:07 p.m. — A woman called 9 and stated that a young man with a gun and red curly hair is “holding them hostage.” She advised that there are 8-9 women there a few older men who can’t “hold their own anymore.”
Upon police follow-up the call was found to just be a dillusional woman at the nursing home.
• 2:14 p.m. — A man reported to 911 that he had just retrieved a “syringe that still has something in it” from the Ronan park by the “playground equipment.” Ronan officers reported that it looked like “a syringe used for jello shots at the street dance” Friday night.
• 5:58 p.m. — A gas station clerk called 911 to report that there are five people who are “drunk and harassing her customers.” She advised that a male with a blue shirt just “urinated in the corner of the store” and a heavy set female wearing a black hoody just “took a sandwich.”
The clerk advised that they are now sitting “at the picnic table out back.”
• 6:06 p.m. — A woman reported to 911 that she just witnessed a black Toyota pickup with a girl wearing a bathing suit and shorts on the hood screaming “Go faster!” headed towards Ferndale Drive from Kelly Drive.
• 8:28 p.m. — A man called 911 irate that he was “robbed again!” The man advised that “they” took his “light green dog leash” from inside his residence, adding that they did not get his “strawberry or tomato bushes this time” because he just brought them in.
The man said that he went through his residence with a “fine toothed comb” looking for it and can’t find it anywhere.
• 9:13 p.m. — A woman called 911 and reported that her neighbors have “all packed up and left” and was wondering if there is an “emergency” where she needs to “leave town.” Dispatchers advised her that there was indeed no such emergency evacuation situation she had not heard of.
• 10:10 p.m. — A man was reported to 911 for having been bit on the arm by his girlfriend.

Sunday, May 24
• 5:12 p.m. — A female gas station clerk in St. Ignatius called 911 and reported that she had just been “locked inside the store” by some unruly customers.
• 8:18 p.m. — A woman advised that someone had come in her house while she was sleeping and “stole her wedding ring off her finger.” She also told dispatchers a story about growing up and how she “had to bring the cows and horses in while her mother read romance novels.”
The woman said she would like to speak with an officer on this matter “if one is interested.”

Monday, May 25
• 1:51 p.m. — A call came in over the scanner for an officer caution stating that a man with arrest warrants they were trying to locate “is known to have swords and uses drugs.” And kids that’s why drugs and swords, don’t’ mix.