Law Enforcement

■ ■ April 8 - An officer took a nuisance garbage dumping report from an Abbotsford resident. The man said he owned a property and shared pictures of boxes and some garbage dumped at the rear alley of the building. The boxes had shipping labels with a name on them. The man said he wanted the garbage picked up and to stop being discarded there.

The officer went to the address on the shipping label and met with a man who did not match the name on the shipping label. The man said his wife was the same person on the shipping labels. The officer told the man that the items would need to be picked up before the next day to avoid a citation and told the man to no longer dump anything there. The man said they would clean up the garbage.

■ ■ April 9 - An officer took a report of wallet theft from an Abbotsford man. The man said that earlier that day his money clip was no longer on his meal table by his bed. He, along with another person, searched the room but were unable to locate the clip. The man did not think it would have been taken and suspected that it had been thrown when his tray was cleaned off. The man wanted to report it in case it had been taken.

The man said there was some cash, a debit card, credit cards, his driver’s license, and an insurance card in the clip.

The man said he had since canceled all of his cards and said he would call if the clip turned up.

■ ■ April 11 - An officer was notified that a loose dog was located at an address in Abbotsford. The officer went to the address and was given a dog. The officer recognized the dog who belonged to a neighboring address. The officer took the dog to the owner’s residence but no one was home. The dog was then taken to the Abbotsford kennel.

The owner was warned for allowing his dog at large about three weeks prior to this incident. The owner was then cited for permitting an animal to run at large which was to be delivered whenever the dog was returned.

■ ■ April 12 - An officer received a call from a Colby resident. The man said he was having a problem with his neighbor in the apartment complex.

The man said he did not know her name but said the woman had started confronting him about looking in her windows. The man said he did not know what she had been talking about, but she had started getting in his face and yelling at him about it. The man said the only time he has looked towards her windows would be on his walk from the parking lot on the west side. He said a few times he would notice that the blinds were shut and that a cat was sitting in the window and the cat would catch his attention on the way in.

The man said he had never looked into her window as she was alleging. The man said in an attempt to avoid more conflict he would walk around the other side of the building and come in through the south side door. He said that a few times while doing that, the neighbor had been doing laundry which was near that door. The woman again would come up to him and accuse him of being a “creeper.”

The man said he never argued back and would walk away as he felt she was trying to get a rise out of him. The man did not wish for anyone to speak with his neighbor but wanted it documented as she had started throwing statute numbers at him saying she would have him arrested.

The officer told the man he would complete a report and told him to call if he continued having problems with the neighbor.

■ ■ April 12 - An officer took a scam complaint from a man in Abbotsford. The officer met the man at his business and the man said he needed to file a report regarding a fraud matter and explained that someone had stolen his credit card number. The man said he had gone into the bank to get a new card as it was cracked and while there, the bank told him that someone was attempting to withdraw $8,400 at that time.

The man verified that it was fraudulent and the transaction was stopped. The man had since been working with the bank to close the account and change information on the account that had possibly been compromised. The man said that more recently, the bank called him stating a male claiming to be the man had called them requesting the hold on the account to be released. The bank was able to determine that the caller was not the owner of the account and did not release the hold.

The man said that he was referred to account monitoring companies going forward and spoke with his insurance company who advised that he would be covered temporarily. Both told the man he should file a report with police in case this issue arose again in the future. The man called a local business to have them clean his business devices of any possible viruses.

■ ■ April 12 - An officer was notified that a female party was at the door of the police department and the officer went to meet with the woman. The woman wished to report a parole violation from her boyfriend.

The woman told the officer her boyfriend was just released from prison after serving 18 months for his fifth OWI. One of his parole rules is that the man needs to maintain absolute sobriety. The woman said that he was most likely drinking at this time.

Three officers went with the woman to her house. Upon arrival, the officers were notified that the man was not home. The woman let the officers inside and pointed out various clues which showed the man not to be home.

The woman then pulled up a banking app on her phone which showed a recent charge at a local bar. The officers went to the bar and met with an employee outside. The officers asked if the man was in the bar and the employee said he was. The officers met with the man who was asked to step out of the bar to talk to the officers. The officers asked the man what he was doing inside the bar as it was a rule of his parole to maintain absolute sobriety. The man said he was just having food. The officer asked why there was a can of beer in front of him at the bar. The man said he just wanted to go home.

The officer ran the man through dispatch and confirmed the man was on parole and was advised of the rules. The officer then called the parole agent and notified them of the situation along with a domestic incident that the woman told the officer about int heir initial meeting. The parole officer said they would be placing a hold on the man. The officer went back to the man, notified him of the probation hold on him and placed him under arrest. The man was searched and the officer noticed the man seemed irritated during the search and the man began to yell at the officer. The man began walking away and the officer grabbed his arm and told him to stop moving.

The man was eventually placed in the rear passenger seat of the squad car and was transported to the Clark County jail.

■ ■ April 13 - An officer was dispatched to an area bar for a traffic complaint. Dispatch advised the caller witnessed a vehicle pass her going north on Hwy. 13 at what she estimated was 65 mph in a 45 mph zone. She said the vehicle slowed when it hit the 25 mph zone at Linden Street and almost hit her vehicle while navigating through a slight jog in the road at that point.

The complainant followed the vehicle and observed a male driver inside. The vehicle stopped at a bar in Abbotsford and appeared to strike a motorcycle parked in front of the bar.

Just prior to the officer’s arrival on-scene, dispatch said that the woman was staying on-scene and advised the male driver was getting back into his car and appeared to be trying to leave. The officer arrived and located the complainant’s vehicle parked in the roadway facing south. It appeared the vehicle was parked alongside the suspect vehicle to box it in and prevent it from leaving. The suspect vehicle was running with a male sitting in the driver’s seat.

The complainant met with the officer and explained her story to him. The woman said she was upset as her children were in the car and she was almost hit by the erratic driver.

The officer then met with the driver who got out of the driver’s seat. The officer observed an open can of beer in the center console cup holder of his vehicle. The officer also observed two cans and two bottles of beer on the floor behind the driver’s seat. The officer asked the man what had happened and the man repeatedly said he had not hit the motorcycle.

The officer could smell the strong odor of alcohol coming from the man’s breath. The man said he was coming from Marshfield and then was heading to his house in Curtiss. The man said he had stopped where they were at so he could get a tortilla to eat from the Mexican grocery store across the street. The man said he had two beers to drink that day, all of them had been had that morning at his home.

After a short back-and-forth, the man said he had the last beer a half hour prior to meeting with the officer. The man did not seem to understand what the problem was with him drinking. The man agreed to perform field sobriety tests and a preliminary breath test to ensure he was safe to drive. The result of the breath test was 0.209. The man was placed under arrest for OWI and given citations for OWI (first offense), operating without a driver’s license, driver possession of open intoxicatnts and operating with a prohibited alcohol content. The man was then released to a responsible party.

■ ■ April 13 - An officer was traveling south on Hwy. 13 when he observed a gray pickup truck turning right onto Hwy. 13 from Spruce Street in Abbotsford. The driver was waiting at a green light for a short period of time before continuing and turning right. The driver turned into the farthest lane of travel and drove on the double yellow line separating north and southbound traffic. The officer pulled the vehicle over and made contact with the driver.

The officer noticed multiple cases of beer on the back floorboards between the two rear passengers. The driver said he did not have an ID card as it was at his house. The officer then verbally identified the driver who said he was on probation.

The man said he may have had three beers. The officer ran the man through ETIME and the driver returned as having a criminally revoked license, on probation and had one prior OWI. Dispatch confirmed the information.

The officer then asked the man to exit the vehicle and asked if he would be willing to perform field sobriety tests to ensure he was safe to drive. The man agreed and later agreed to a preliminary breath test.

The result of the PBT was 0.177. The man was placed under arrest for operating while under the influence, second offense. The officer then called the man’s probation officer who said they would be placing a hold on the man.

The officer then transported the man to Marshfield Medical Center for a chemical test of his blood and then to the Clark County Jail. The man was issued and explained citations for operating while under the influence (second offense), operating while revoked (criminal), failure to install an IID and operating left of center.

■ ■ April 14 - Two officers were working together and conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle in a restaurant parking lot in Abbotsford. One officer identified the passenger of the vehicle as someone he had met through previous law enforcement contacts.

The other officer contacted the passenger and obtained his name which was different than the initial officer had recalled in previous meetings with the man. The man gave the same birth date as the other name associated with him.

The training officer conducted a records check of the name given to the officer. The man came back with a Taylor County warrant for OWI. A records check was also conducted on the other name associated with the man. That name came back for a Clark County warrant for OWI, second offense.

Several Clark County deputies arrived on-scene. One deputy had made contact with the man last July. Body cam footage from that stop showed the man using the fake name in that traffic stop as well.

One of the CAPD officers later spoke with the deputy regarding the traffic stop. The deputy recalled stopping the man and said he remembered the incident clearly. The deputy said the man had given him a different name during his traffic stop. The deputy then said he arrested the man for OWI and transported him to the CAPD for an intoximeter test. The deputy recalled bringing in who he believed was the man’s fake name and was advised by CAPD officers that the individual had a different name.

The officer then spoke with other Clark County personnel who recalled a similar interaction.

The man was placed under Clark County custody for his warrant and the CAPD officer requested charges for resisting/obstruction an officer and misappropriate ID for the man.