Law Enforcement

n October 18 - An officer met with a caller who said the downstairs neighbors are playing their music loudly. The complainant said he could hear his downstairs neighbor playing music and he could hear it over his tv. The officer could hear the music coming from downstairs as he talked to the complainant. The officer reported it was not overly loud but could be heard. The complainant said he spoke to the landlord about this and was told to call the police with any complaints.

The officer went downstairs and met with the couple residing in the area. The man said he was setting up new speakers and accidentally turned the volume knob up. The man said it was for less than 10 seconds and he turned it down. The man asked why his neighbor did not call the landlord and instead called police. The officer told the man that his neighbor was instructed by the landlord to call the police for any complaints they have. The officer told the man to try to be respectful of the upstairs neighbor and keep the volume down to which the couple agreed.

n October 19 - An officer was dispatched to a local bank for a report of a scam. A woman said that on Oct. 18, she was on her computer when the computer froze. The woman said a pop up was all she was able to click on and it displayed a help number allegedly for Microsoft. The woman called the number and spoke with a female with an Indian accent. The woman said the lady on the phone gave her employee information that sounded legitimate and told her how to unfreeze the computer which ended up giving the lady remote access to the complainant’s computer. The female on the phone then transferred her to a male with a similar sounding accent.

The man told the complainant that he had found fraudulent activity on her bank account which was linked to the computer. The man convinced the complainant he was with her bank’s fraud department and could get her money back before the fraudulent transaction went through.

The man convinced the complainant to drive to her bank and pull out $3,500 cash. The woman went to various places and bought prepaid gift cards and provided the man with the card numbers. The woman said she went home and called the man again. He told her there was about $3,000 left in her account and convinced the woman to perform the same actions with another $3,000.

The woman was advised to call the man back but when she called the number, it was no longer in service. The woman said she realized that the whole thing was a scam and had since froze her bank account.

The woman realized there was not much that could be done about getting the funds back but wanted a report done to document the incident. The officer gave her advice on avoiding future scams and to get her computer cleaned. The woman thanked the officer and left. The officer called Clark County dispatch and advised them of the incident.

n October 21 - An officer was given the license plate of a vehicle that was caught doing donuts in the parking lot of the Colby city softball fields on Oct. 10.

The officer ran the license plate of the vehicle and it came back to a Colby address. The officer went to the registered address and met with a male that said his sister, to which the vehicle is registered to, was not home. The officer went back to the residence later to meet with the woman but no one was home. The officer spoke to a neighbor who said he has never seen that vehicle at the neighbor’s residence.

The officer was on patrol the following day and observed the vehicle driving in the city of Colby. The vehicle pulled into a residence in the city of Colby and the officer followed it and met with the driver. The officer spoke to a male who said the vehicle was his. The officer showed the man a picture of the vehicle that was taken at the Colby softball diamonds and the man confirmed that it was his vehicle on the camera. The man said his friend was driving the vehicle as he had asked to borrow the vehicle that day.

The man said he does not know where his friend lives but said it is somewhere in Abbotsford.

The officer stated in the report that the picture does not match the description of the man he met with.

The officer checked the CAPD database and had Clark County dispatch check for a man matching the description provided. No one matched the name or age that was given by the owner of the vehicle. The officer said they would check with the Colby and Abbotsford School Districts to see if they have a student that matches the description.

n October 22 - An officer was dispatched to Colby High School for a complaint of a disorderly juvenile at the Haunted Trail event.

Upon arrival, the officer met with an event organizer who said there was a juvenile who was causing issues. The organizer said the juvenile had been hiding out by the storage shed that the football team uses and was using profanity at people walking past. The organizer said that the juvenile went over to an area with some actors for the event and had been saying derogatory things to them.

The organizer asked the juvenile to leave but he came back and was doing the same thing. The juvenile ran off through the parking lot after he was asked to leave again. The officers checked the area and did not locate the juvenile. The officers obtained a phone number for the juvenile’s parents and spoke to the juvenile’s father about the incident. The officers said they would talk to the juvenile at school to get his side of the story.

n October 22 - An officer was dispatched to the a residence in Abbotsford for a complaint of trespassing.

Upon arrival, the officer met with a man and a woman who said the woman’s ex-husband had come to his apartment today and the complainant said he did not want the man around his residence or on the property. The complainant said he contacted the apartment manager and asked her to write a trespassing letter for the man but the manager was out of town for the weekend. The complainant said he was at work at the time and said that the woman was home when the woman’s ex-husband came over.

The officer asked the woman what had happened when her ex-husband came to the apartment. The woman said the man came to the apartment asking about tires for his car. The woman said that she told the man he cannot be there and he left. The woman said the man appeared to be intoxicated. The woman said the man is on probation and is not allowed to have contact with her. The woman said she does not know where he is currently living and said she had already contacted a Taylor County Sheriff’s Office detective about the matter.

The officer searched for the man’s rules of probation and found that the listed rules did not include a no contact clause with the woman. The officer then searched the man on the Wisconsin Circuit Court portal and found that the man had a bond condition for an open case that included a no contact clause with someone matching the woman’s initials and date of birth.

The officer decided to review the cameras at the apartment on his next working shift and said he would contact the man’s probation agent to get a current address. The officer stated he would follow up for potential charges of felony bail jumping.