Law Enforcement

■ March 8 - An officer was on patrol in Abbotsford when he observed a vehicle traveling in front of his squad car that had a white brake lamp display instead of the traditional red brake light. The officer initiated a traffic stop and made contact with the driver. The woman driver said she was not aware of the defective brake lamp.

The officer ran the woman’s identification through dispatch. The officer completed a written warning for the defective tail light and while explaining the warning to the driver, the woman requested to step out of the vehicle and see the defective light. The officer walked with her to the rear of the vehicle and advised her a white light emits from the lamp as her brakes were applied. The woman said she understood and returned to the vehicle.

While the officer was filling out and explaining the warning, an Owen officer arrived on-scene and deployed his K9 to the vehicle. The officer said his K9 had alerted to the vehicle.

The officer removed the driver and passenger from the vehicle and conducted searches of their person, locating nothing of evidentiary value.

While having the second passenger step out of the vehicle the woman advised the officer she had some marijuana on her person. The woman retrieved a small coin purse from her pocket which contained a device that holds loose marijuana and a marijuana pipe. No other items were located on her person.

The officers then searched the vehicle. They found a blue THC vape device which the first passenger said was hers and a black coin purse containing three orange Adderall pills in a purse the driver claimed.

No other items were located. The officer asked the driver if she had a prescription for Adderall. The woman said she previously did but now does not. The officer issued citations of possession of marijuana for the two passengers and all three were released from the scene.

The officer photographed the items back at the police department and tested the items. The officer requested charges for possession of amphetamine for the driver.

■ March 9 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in Abbotsford in response to a message from Oshkosh police about a possible cell phone theft that occurred on March 4.

The victim had reported the phone as stolen to her phone carrier and they had pinged the phone to an address in Abbotsford. The phone stayed there since the weekend and the last ping was on March 8 and still showed it at that address.

The officer went to the address and knocked on the door. A woman answered the door. The officer told the woman he was investigating an incident that occurred in Abbotsford on March 4 and asked where she had been at that time. The woman told the officer she had been out of town in Oshkosh on March 4 with her husband and two daughters. The officer told the woman he was not being truthful with her and said he was actually investigating a report of a stolen phone that had been tracked to her address.

The woman said she forgot they had found a cell phone while shopping in Oshkosh that day The woman explained that she had been in a store and found a phone on one of the display racks inside the store.

The woman said that she attempted to turn the phone in to a male cashier at the store but he refused to accept the found phone.

The woman said she did not want to leave the phone on a rack and decided to hang onto the phone. The woman said that she knew iPhone users could go to their carrier and have a message/notification sent similar to “If found please return this phone to (location).” The woman said there was never a message on the phone and she was just waiting for one to pop up.

The woman went into the house and returned with the phone and handed it to the officer. The officer secured the phone in a location at the police department and contacted the owner of the phone to come pick it up.

■ March 11 - An officer was dispatched to a business in reference to an intoxicated male subject who was causing a disturbance. Upon arrival, the officer was escorted to the male who had left the business and went to a neighboring business. The officer could immediately tell that the male was heavily intoxicated due to a strong odor of an intoxicating beverage coming from his person. The man was slurring his words, yelling and had egg and spit all over his face and could not stand.

The officer identified the man who had a Minnesota ID card. The officer could barely understand what the man was saying but he was able to gather that the man was waiting for a bus to take him to Minneapolis.

The man asked the officer if he was Barack Obama and advised the officer that he was an undercover narcotics officer from Minneapolis.

The officer told the man to wait outside while the officer gathered the man’s things that were spread out throughout the premises.

Another officer arrived on-scene to assist. The initial officer met the man outside and gave him his bags. The officer ran the man’s information through Clark County Dispatch. Dispatch advised that the man was on probation through Price County for battery to law enforcement. Dispatch also advised that the man had an active Department of Corrections felony warrant. The warrant was confirmed through probation.

The officer advised the man he was under arrest for the warrant. The man asked if the officer was a real cop and asked how a cop could arrest a secret service agent. The officer had the man place his hands behind his back and placed handcuffs on the man’s wrists. The officer searched the man and found nothing of evidentiary value.

The officer searched the man’s bags and secured them in the rear of his squad car. The officer transported the man to the Marathon County Jail where he was released to the jail staff. The jail would not accept all of the man’s bags and told the man his bags would be kept in a room at the Colby-Abbotsford Police Department.

■ March 11 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in Abbotsford in reference to a juvenile runaway Upon arrival, the officer met with a man and woman who said their son had snuck out of the house. The man said that his son was recently suspended from school and had asked to go to a party on Saturday night. The man said his son was told he could not go to the party. The man said his son snuck out the back door of the house. The woman said she tried calling the boy’s phone but it was turned off or the battery was dead. The woman said she has a find my phone type of setting for the boy’s phone on her phone. She showed the officer two locations that the boy’s phone was at recently The woman said one location was by a grandparent of one of the boy’s friends and they had checked that and there were no fresh tire or foot tracks at that residence.

The officer was told of other possible locations that the boy could be at. The officer requested a Clark County deputy travel out to a residence the boy’s parents had mentioned.

At 1:40 a.m., the deputy caUed the officer to tell him that he had located the boy at the suggested residence. The officer called the parents of the boy and asked if they wanted him brought home as he was sleeping. The boy’s parents said they did want the boy brought home that night.

The officer met with the friend’s father who said he had just gotten home and saw the boy was over and sleeping. He said he did not know who the friend was since he has never met the boy before. The officer asked the man to go and get the boy The boy was brought to the door and was given a ride home to his parents without incident.