Law Enforcement

n October 9 - An officer was notified by Chief Bauer of a student that had walked away from Abbotsford High School earlier that day. Bauer asked that the officer go to an address where the student’s boyfriend was living. The officer arrived at the boyfriend’s address and met with a high school aged male that said he was the boyfriend.

The officer asked if the student was there and he returned with a female identified as the student. The officer told the student she could not just leave without telling anyone. The officer gave the student the option of either coming back with the officer to school or her mother would list her as a runaway and she would be taken back to school with the boyfriend facing consequences for harboring her. The student agreed to go back to school with the officer.

n October 9 - An officer took a report of a suspicious person in Colby. The officer met with the complainant who said that her camera at the rear of her house had been triggered. She said she guessed it was a cat as there was one that frequently triggered the camera. After reviewing it the next morning, she found that there had been a person on her back deck.

It appeared to be a male juvenile that the officer estimated was early high school aged. The footage showed the male jump the four stairs that led to the north and fall on his face. The male then got up and ran to the north. The complainant said she did not recognize the male and wanted to make the CAPD aware of the incident to do some extra patrols. The woman showed a hand print in the dew on her back table that appeared the male had been sitting on a patio chair there.

The woman said she would call if anything else occurred. She also showed the officer a Facebook message from her neighbor who was aware of the male and asked officers to search her pull behind camper that was parked in her yard as she had left the door unlocked. The officer checked the camper which did not appear that anyone had been inside and notified the owner of his findings.

n October 11 - An officer spoke to a man regarding damage done to his UTV. The man said he was at the tractor pulls at the Colby Puller’s Club on August 19. The man said he arrived at 7 p.m. and stayed until the pulls were over with. The man said he drove his UTV to the pulls and said he was able to drive back to his residence after the pulls. The man said that he took the UTV out the following weekend and it shut down on him. The man said he took it to a shop to get it looked at and when they cut the oil filter off, there was a mass quantity of dirt in the oil filter and motor. The man wanted a report filed for insurance purposes.

n October 12 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in Colby for a possible disturbance. The officer was told that a male party was threatening another male party and trying to damage their vehicle. The officer met with the complainant who said he was coming home from Marshfield and when he passed by Cenex gas station in Colby, a vehicle with dark tinted windows followed him to his residence. The man said he was unloading his groceries and a male started yelling at him and threatening to fight him. The complainant said the suspect stayed in his vehicle when he was yelling at him. The complainant said the man left and that is when he called police. The man said about a year ago, he had a similar incident with the same man in Curtiss and the man threatened him with a gun that day.

The officer recognized the vehicle the suspect was driving from previous law enforcement contacts. The complainant described the man to the officer and the officer showed him a picture. The complainant confirmed that was him.

The officer along with another officer went to the man’s apartment in Colby. The man said he was at Cenex that day and when asked if he followed a vehicle to the owner’s house and threatened someone, the man became upset, started yelling at the officers and slammed the door to his apartment.

The officer could hear the man continue to yell about the officers speaking to him. The officer told the man that he just wants to hear his side of the story and if the man didn’t tell him his side, the officer would only have the complainant’s version of the story. The man calmed down and the officer was able to get the suspect’s side of the story. The man said he was coming back from Marshfield and a vehicle was behind him on Hwy. 13 and was tailgating him. The man said the vehicle passed him and almost struck him in Unity.

The man said he saw the vehicle pull into Cenex and then go around the block so he followed it to see who was driving. The man said the vehicle drove into a driveway and the suspect said he left and never spoke to the driver.

The man said the only person he has a problem with is the complainant. The suspect said the complainant called police on him last year saying he pulled a gun on the complainant. The officer warned the man that he needed to stop following people to their houses and to call police if he has issues so he does not get in trouble. The man said he is a man and if he has issues he handles them like a man and does not call the police.

n October 12 - An officer observed a vehicle to be traveling in Abbotsford. The officer ran the vehicle’s registration and the registered owner’s information and they came back as having no driver’s license issued. The officer made a traffic stop of the vehicle and met with the driver, notifying him of the reason for the stop. The man said the vehicle belonged to his cousin and said he was just borrowing it. The man said he did not have a driver’s license or any identification on him. The officer could smell a slight odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle and the officer requested a Clark County deputy to come to the traffic stop to deploy his K9.

The officer returned to his squad and ran the man’s information through dispatch. Neither the driver nor the passenger came back on file. The deputy told the officer that his K9 alerted to the vehicle. The driver then told the officer that there was a little bit of marijuana in the vehicle. The officer searched both the driver and passenger. The passenger was holding his phone in his left hand and wallet in his right hand. The passenger set his phone on the officer’s squad car. Under the passenger’s phone was a small baggie with a green, leafy substance.

The officer then searched the vehicle and found a piece of tin foil with one side of it burnt in the driver’s side door compartment. The foil had a greyish/white residue on the other side of it. The officer also found a vape device that he believed to be THC in the center console of the vehicle.

The officer asked the duo who the drugs belonged to. The men said the marijuana belonged to both of them and the vape device was the driver’s. The driver said he didn’t know anything about the tin foil. The officer transported the items back to the police department to be tested for marijuana and THC. The officer tested the items and they tested positive for marijuana and THC. The officer tested the tin foil which tested positive for fentanyl and methamphetamine. The driver was mailed citations for operating without a valid driver’s license, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. The passenger was mailed a citation for possession of marijuana.

n October 14 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in Abbotsford for a criminal damage complaint. The officer arrived on-scene and met with a man who said he was leaving his business and located a sign to be knocked down near the entrance to his business. The man said a vehicle must have pulled into the parking lot and hit the sign before parking in the parking lot of his business.

The officer did observe there to be two tire ruts in the grass and a pole with two white signs with black lettering on them to be laying on the grass. The man said he did not know who would have hit the sign and said he would like the incident documented so the pole and signs could be fixed along with the grass.

n October 15 - An officer was dispatched to an apartment in Abbotsford for a disturbance. Dispatch advised that the caller was the downstairs neighbor and was a friend of the woman involved in a dispute. The officer arrived and met with the caller who said her friend’s boyfriend had shown up and would not leave though his girlfriend had not answered the door for him. The caller said that the boyfriend had struck her friend in the face and given her bruises on her arm the night before. The caller said the three along with other friends had been drinking in the friend’s apartment the night before and the man ended up getting very drunk and hitting her before leaving for the night.

The officer located the man and had him come to the front of the apartment to speak with the officer. The man said he had come back to grab his belongings and was leaving to live elsewhere but his girlfriend would not let him in. The officer asked about the previous night and the man said he had hugged a different woman and it made his girlfriend jealous. His girlfriend then told him to get out and the man said he grabbed some things quickly and decided it would be best to go out with his friends and let his girlfriend cool off. The officer had the man wait with a Clark County Deputy while the CAPD officer went upstairs to speak with the woman.

The woman said they had been drinking the night before and said that the man had gotten very drunk and was not sure what had set him off. The woman said they had discussed him gathering his things and leaving and that afterwards he went from being okay to furious at her. The woman said the man grabbed her upper biceps area in anger. The woman said that her younger son was awake and saw the man grab her. The incident was big enough to make her child cry out of fear.

The woman said she began yelling at the man to get his things and leave immediately. The man went into the bedroom to gather some belongings and the woman went in a short time after to see his progress. The woman said the man came at her angrily and she thought he may get physical with her so she pushed him when he got an arms distance away. The woman said the man pushed her back and in the shoving match hit the woman in the mouth with an open hand. The woman said the man’s work friend saw the scuffle and quickly grabbed the man and left the residence with him.

The woman showed the officer two bruises on her arm along with the inside of her upper lip which had a mark from the impact against her teeth. The woman said it was agreed upon by both her and the man that he would live at the farm where he worked. The woman thought that maybe that was what had caused the fight but was not sure.

The officer went back downstairs and spoke with the man. The officer notified him he would be placing the man under arrest for domestic disorderly conduct. The man was then transferred to the Clark County jail. The charge of domestic disorderly conduct and battery for the man were forwarded to the Clark County district attorney’s office.