n July 17 – ….
n July 17 - An officer took a complaint from a man at the police department. The complainant said he owns a property in the city of Abbotsford which has a shed and a gravel lot to the south of the shed. The man said that in the previous years, the neighbors across the alley have had their younger kids or grand kids riding a smaller four-wheeler in their yard and would cross the alley and drive in his gravel lot.
The man said that it did not bother him until the kids began tearing up the gravel causing ruts in it. The man said he was civil and spoke with the neighbors once each year the past two years and that the driving behavior would stop for awhile and eventually start again. The man said this year he is done and wants them to know they are no longer welcome on his property there.
The officer told the man he would speak to the individuals and told the man to let the department know if he had any further issues. The officer went to the residence and spoke to a man and his wife who own the home. The officer told them about the complaint and said their kids were no longer welcome on their neighbor’s property. The kids were there as the officer spoke and they all agreed to no longer use the lot. The officer warned the family that if it continued, citations may be issued.
n July 21 - An officer met with a Colby man in reference to a harassment complaint. The officer arrived and met with the complainant who said he was being harassed by people he knew from a different state who were calling him all night using a blocked number. The man was very animated and would ramble on about these people and their back stories with him. The man eventually showed the officer screenshots of messages in a texting conversation. He said that he was speaking with a person on the phone and they were telling him to transcribe what they were saying. The man said that is why all the messages appeared to have come from him. The messages described what the officer noted was the ramblings of a person having a mental episode.
The man thanked the officer for taking the complaint and asked that the officer call the persons to make sure the phone calls stopped as he had not slept that night. A couple hours later, the officer was called back to the residence in reference to a welfare check. Dispatch advised that the same man who complained earlier of constant phone calls was speaking with a nurse’s hotline saying that he had hit a mirror with his forehead causing an injury. The man had also said he was going to take all of his medications at once to kill himself before disconnecting the call.
The officer arrived and knocked on the door. The man responded through the door saying that he was OK and just coping. The man said that if the officer did not leave, things would get bad. The officer could hear the man on the phone with his mother and another officer arrived shortly after. The other officer knocked again and introduced himself to the man. The man opened the door and said he would speak with the officers outside.
The man said he was in crisis and was very familiar with being in this state of mind. The man said that he did head butt a mirror and cut himself. The man also said that he had not told the nurse’s hotline that he was going to try and kill himself. The man said they must have misunderstood what he was saying. The man said that he was explaining that his father had killed himself by taking all of his medications.
The man said he wanted help but had no vehicle to seek it out himself. The man spoke with a representative from Northwest Connections and found that the situation did not meet the criteria for a chapter. The man suggested that his neighbor might be willing to drive him to the Marshfield Emergency Room so he can begin the process of voluntarily committing himself. The officers spoke with the neighbor who agreed to transport the man to the hospital.
n July 22 - An officer was dispatched to a hotel in Abbotsford in reference to a harassment and civil complaint.
The officer arrived and spoke with an employee who said he was calling about a man who had previously been employed at the hotel for four months and had an arrangement with the business to live in a room while he was employed and have his rent taken out of his paycheck.
The complainant said that the man had quit without any notice on July 9th and stopped paying for the room. The hotel gave the man a written notice to vacate the property on July 23 by 11 a.m. as he was no longer paying for the room. The complainant said they took what was owed for his room out of the man’s last paycheck leaving a meager amount. The man came to the front desk asking about his paycheck and got upset when the amount displayed was very little. The employee tried to explain why it was small but the man yelled at him and walked back to his room. The man came back to the front desk a few times asking for his full paycheck in a loud voice and the employee wanted the behavior to stop as he felt harassed.
The officer went to the man’s room and spoke with him about the situation. The man admitted he had gotten animated due to the paycheck but went back to his room before it got out of hand. The man said that he would not be able to move out because his paycheck was too small. The man said that they could have taken him to court for the unpaid room and he would’ve been able to move out.
The man said that he had done some searching on the internet and confirmed with his lawyer that he had established residency there and that they would have to evict him before he moved out. The officer told the man that it would be between him and the hotel to settle that dispute and told him that he would need to go to court if he wanted the full paycheck amount. The officer told the man that he needed to stop asking the employee for the full paycheck and that if he wanted to avoid any issues with him to stop speaking to the employee all together. The man agreed that he would stop asking about the check to avoid causing a scene but said he would not leave until he was court ordered.
The officer spoke with the employee and notified him of the man’s agreement to not ask him about the check. The officer asked the employee if the man had received mail there and the employee confirmed that he did. The officer notified the employee that he was unable to make the man leave. The employee was informed that the business would need to go through a court ordered eviction process to remove the man.
