Law Enforcement
n June 12 - An officer was notified of a vehicle driving erratically in the city of Colby. The officer was given a video of the vehicle fishtailing around the corner and going onto the grass.
The officer checked the area and was unable to locate the vehicle. The officer then went to the address listed for the registered owner of the vehicle. The officer met with a woman who said her son had her vehicle and was with some friends.
The officer showed the woman the video and told her that this is what her son is doing with her vehicle. The officer explained the seriousness of the video. The woman was upset and called her son and told him to come home immediately. The officer waited for the woman’s son to arrive.
When the boy pulled in, the officer asked him what he was doing. The boy said he was with some friends. The officer asked him about the driving and showed him the video. The boy said it was his friend driving at that time and not him. The officer asked the boy for his friend’s name. The boy said his friend’s name and said he lived in Colby and was only about 15 or 16 years old. The officer informed the boy that he could issue his mother citations as well for allowing him to drive the vehicle knowing that he does not have a license. The boy said his mom did not know he took the vehicle today.
The boy said this is the first time he has driven in that area. The officer showed the boy another picture the officer had with the same vehicle that was taken a few weeks prior involving the same type of complaint. The boy said he meant this is the first time he was driving on that road today but someone else was driving the car in that prior incident.
The officer ran the boy through dispatch and was told he has an instructional permit. The officer issued the boy a citation for operating a motor vehicle without a designated driver. The officer told the boy that he would ask his friend if he was driving. He said if the friend denied driving the vehicle, he would issue citations for disorderly conduct with a motor vehicle to both him and his friend.
The officer then went to the friend’s house. The officer met with the boy’s mother who said her son was not home but would be later that night. The officer showed the woman the video and told her that is why he needed to speak with the boy. The officer had another officer follow up with the boy and planned to issue citations on his next working shift.
n June 14 - An officer was notified of a man who had called the department reporting found drug paraphernalia at a property of his. The officer made contact with the man who said his tenants at a residence he owns advised him they were not returning to the rental home and all items inside were considered abandoned.
The man said his worker, who was cleaning the residence, located several items of drug paraphernalia. The officer was given consent to enter the residence and look through the property with the man’s worker. The officer located several smoking pipes, ammo/magazine for a firearm, scales and other miscellaneous drug paraphernalia inside the residence. A small personal safe was also located inside the residence that sounded like it had items inside.
The officer seized all items of contraband that were located during the brief search. The officer notified the man to notify police if any firearms or other items of great concern were located inside the residence.
The officer then transported the items to the Colby-Abbotsford Police Department where they were destroyed. The safe was also opened and plastic straws were located inside which were also discarded.
n June 16 - An officer was dispatched to an apartment in Abbotsford for a juvenile complaint. The officer arrived on-scene and made contact with a male individual who said his daughter and son were smoking marijuana inside his apartment.
The father said the officer needed to search both the kids’ bedrooms. The officer said he couldn’t just search their bedrooms for marijuana but the officer said he did smell the odor of marijuana coming from inside the residence.
The officer asked the son if he did in fact smoke marijuana inside the residence and the son said he did, but not inside the residence. The daughter said the same thing.
The father said he wanted both of the kids to leave the residence and not come back. The officer notified the father that he could not just kick out the son because he is a juvenile and he could not kick out his daughter without a proper eviction notice. The father said he is on probation and does not want to get into any sort of trouble.
The officer filled out a report that was forwarded to the man’s probation agent as well as social services.
n June 16 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in Abbotsford where he spoke with a male individual. The man wanted to inform the officer that he smoke marijuana two days prior and does not have a job. The officer asked the man if he had smoked any marijuana that day as the officer did not smell it and did not notice the man to be under the influence of marijuana. The man said he didn’t smoke that day but just wanted to inform the officer of what he did.
The officer told the man he needed to get some sort of employment and needed to stop smoking marijuana. The officer said he would be completing a report of what the man told him and would be forwarding it to the man’s probation agent.
The man said he did not want to go back to jail. The officer told the man he would not be going to jail that night as the officer did not call the on-call probation officer about the incident.
n June 16 - An officer was notified that a property in Abbotsford had long grass and was violating the city ordinance. The officer arrived and met with the resident of the property who said he had recently broke his wrist and had trouble using a push lawn mower. The man said he will try to get the lawn mowed.
The officer said to do his best to get the lawn mowed within four days so that he does not get cited. The man said he will so he doesn’t have to pay the city to mow it. Later on in the officer’s shift, he noticed that the man had begun mowing his property.
n June 18 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in Abbotsford for a criminal damage complaint. The officer arrived and met with a man who said he left his residence on the morning of June 17 and arrived back home on June 18.
He said he had parked a silver utility trailer on the front lawn of his property. The man noticed the right wheel well of his trailer to have a dent or damage to it. The man said he did not know who struck the right wheel well of his trailer.
The man wanted the incident documented so he could show his insurance company. The officer took pictures of the damage and uploaded them to the case.
