Law Enforcement

n October 21 - An officer was dispatched to a residence in Colby for a neighbor dispute. The officer was told the upstairs neighbors kept banging on the floor. The officer met with the complainant who said she was making some food and the upstairs neighbors were banging on the floor because they said it was too loud. The complainant said it is an ongoing issue with the upstairs neighbors and said she has talked to the landlord but the landlord told them to call police. The complainant said the plaster on the ceiling in her bedroom is starting to crack because of the banging.

The officer went and spoke to the upstairs neighbors. The resident said he and his roommate both work at night and sleep during the day. The man said that the children downstairs do not make noise but they hear banging and pounding sometimes so they stomp on the floor to try to get them to stop. The officer asked if they have spoken to the landlord and the man said they have but he does not do anything.

The officer told the man that the banging on the floor is starting to damage the ceiling downstairs. The officer told the men to try to civilly speak to the downstairs neighbors if they have issues with the noise and not to just bang on the floor. The officer returned to the downstairs neighbor and let them know they need to be considerate of the fact that their neighbors work during the night and need to sleep during the day.

n October 22 - An officer was dispatched to an apartment in Abbotsford for a male individual who said he was getting punched in the face and needed police. The officer arrived and met with a male individual and a female individual. The officer was standing by the man when the woman walked up to the officer. The officer yelled for her to go by an assisting Clark County Deputy. The woman did not listen and the officers were forced to handcuff the woman and sat her in the rear of the deputy’s patrol vehicle.

The officer asked the man what had happened and the man said he had arrived at the residence with a friend. The man said his friend had left before the officers’ arrival. The man said he was trying to leave and attempting to get into the driver’s side of his vehicle when the woman walked up to him and punched him in the face several times and scratched both of his arms.

The officer asked the man if there was an argument that occurred before the woman had punched him in the face. The man did not answer the officer’s question and just said the woman hit him several times. The officer observed the man to have a bruise on his right eye and several scratches on both of his arms.

The man said he was not in a relationship with the woman and after the officer told the man his story did not make sense, the man said he did not argue with the woman and said he was attacked unprovoked.

The officer then went to meet with the woman. The officer took the handcuffs off the woman as she told him she was willing to cooperate. The woman said she was sitting in her residence and observed the man walk into her residence without knocking on the door or any permission to enter her residence as the door was unlocked. The woman said she told the man that is not how to enter a residence you do not live at and she said that made the man angry. She said the man then struck her in the face. The woman said she then punched the man in the face as self defense.

The officer asked several more questions but the woman said she did not want to answer more questions and she just wanted the man to leave. The officer told the man to leave and not come back. The man agreed and left.

n October 23 - An officer took a report of a hit and run in Abbotsford. The caller said that someone had ran into a smaller concrete substation for the water department earlier that morning. He said they had noticed that it was intact around 5:30 a.m. but was damaged at 8 a.m. The caller said he had gathered some plastic car parts that were left behind at the scene of the crash and provided the officer with some photos of the damage as well.

The officer did an internet search of the part number and found that the fitment of said part was for a vehicle between 2007-2011. The officer drove through a nearby trailer court and located a vehicle matching the description with heavy front end damage and passenger side damage consistent with the damage caused at the scene.

The officer went to a trailer and met with a resident who said she had been driving when her vehicle hit the substation. The woman said she was tired from having worked third shift and had not seen it until it was too late.

The officer told the woman that she needed to report damage if she hits something and that she would be getting a citation for hit and run property damage. The officer also notified her that the city would most likely be in contact with her about paying for the damage.

n October 23 -An officer took a walk-in complaint of fraud at the CAPD.Aman said he noticed some strange activity on his bank account. He said there were two transactions where $200 was pulled out of an ATM in Abbotsford along with his bank charging $26 in fees for each transaction. The man said that he had not lost his card nor given anyone else permission to use it. The man provided bank transactions for each of the amounts in question. The man tried to look at the camera footage from the ATM but was denied access and advised to contact law enforcement.

The officer went to the business where the ATM was located to observe camera footage of the incident. The officer observed the complainant enter the store and go to theATM area. The man stayed in the area for five minutes and entered camera view appearing to put cash into his wallet. The man then left the store immediately on both occasions.

The officer called the man to let him know that the man had appeared to have made both withdrawals at those times and provided pictures to confirm it. The officer notified the man that the case would be closed on the department’s end.

n October 27 - An officer responded to a business in Abbotsford for a trespassing complaint. The owner of the store said a man was in the store, under the influence and smoking in the store while refusing to leave. Upon arrival, the officer was notified that the man had left. The owner said the man was acting out but only wished to trespass him from the property if he was drunk while in the store. The owner said the man was fine when he was sober. The officer advised the owner that the man needed to be trespassed with no exception whether he was drunk or sober. The owner said she did not wish to have the man trespassed from the store.

Officers met with the man who lived upstairs and noticed him to be unsteady on his feet and he had slurred speech. The officer also observed the odor of intoxicants coming from his breath. The man said he was not in the store and was not drinking. The officer advised the man to stay away from the store for the rest of the day.

The officers then attempted to contact the man’s probation agent but were unsuccessful in doing so. The agent was left a message detailing what had happened that day.

n October 28 - An officer was dispatched to a gas station for a report of found suspected marijuana. The officer arrived at the gas station and met with employees who handed the officer a grocery bag. The officer opened it and inside was a Ziploc bag full of a green, leafy substance that appeared to be marijuana.

The officer asked the employees where the bag was found and they informed him it was on the floor in the store. The officer asked if he could look at the camera footage and the employees assisted in showing him where the camera system was located.

The employee showed the officer the point in the footage where the bag appeared to be dropped. The officer observed a male with a beard to be the one who dropped the bag. The officer then checked the camera from the parking lot to see the vehicle the man drove. The officer asked the employee if they had any way of identifying the man and she said she would ask the other employees and follow up with the officer.

The next morning, the officer met with the same employee who provided the officer with the receipt the man that dropped the bag had. On top of the receipt was a name and the employee said that multiple staff members were able to identify the man as he comes to the gas station every morning. The officer thanked them and cleared from the store.

The officer tested the green, leafy substance back at the police station which tested presumptively positive for marijuana with a total weight of 9.49 grams.

The officer then made contact with the suspect at his home. The officer observed a truck matching the description from the parking lot security camera and observed the registered owner to have a similar name to the one that was given to him by employees. The officer met with a man who said he was at the gas station the morning of October 27, wore clothes matching those shown in the security footage and said he did not know he dropped a bag of marijuana but if he did, he would have picked it up. The officer thanked the man for his honesty and issued him a citation for possession of marijuana.

n October 28 - An officer was dispatched to a restaurant in Abbotsford for a report of theft. The officer arrived and met with the owner of the building who said he has two apartments above the restaurant and suspected one of his tenants of taking items. The man said there are stairs which lead to a small hallway where the apartment front doors are and said on top of the stairs is a small corner landing. The man said he stored a large microwave and two wooden chairs in that landing which were missing. The man said the stairs and other areas of the common walkway area to get to the apartments are areas where he stores items.

The officer made contact with one of the tenants who was extremely intoxicated and unable to speak coherently. Another man was in the apartment and the man invited the officer inside. The officer observed a large, white microwave and two wooden chairs inside the apartment. The officer informed the man of the complaint. The man said “some guy” at the bar downstairs told the woman she could take the items. The owner then came upstairs and the man invited him in as well.The man identified the items in question and said he did not give them permission to take them. The bar owner said the items were fine up there now that he knew they were there.

The owner said he would like the incident documented. The officer advised the owner to secure his items and not leave them out in a common, unlocked area where tenants have access to. The man said he understood.

n October 29 - An officer was traveling on Hwy 13 when he observed a truck traveling above the posted speed limit of 45 mph. The officer activated his radar and observed the vehicle traveling 55 mph. The officer turned around and initiated a traffic stop of the vehicle and met with the driver and passenge.r While speaking to the occupants, the officer observed a strong odor of alcohol coming from inside the vehicle. The officer also observed the driver to have glossy and bloodshot eyes. The driver told the officer he did not have identification but said he was coming from a friend’s house and the driver had five beers. The driver said he had stopped drinking a few hours prior to driving.

The officer conducted a records check of the driver and found him to not be the registered owner of the vehicle. The officer observed a wanted person near hit for a name and birthdate that was close to the name given by the driver. The man agreed to perform field sobriety tests and a preliminary breath test to ensure he was safe to drive. The result of the preliminary breath test was 0.136.

The officer placed the man under arrest for operating while under the influence (2nd offense).

The man was transported to the Colby-Abbotsford Police Department where he was issued citations for operating while under the influence, operating with prohibited alcohol concentration and operating while revoked. Additionally, the officer requested two counts for charges of misdemeanor bail jumping. The passenger later arrived at the police department and posted the bond for the man and picked up the man from the police department.

n October 29 - An officer was dispatched to an open line 911 call. The call came from a residence in Abbotsford and dispatch said they heard yelling and swearing on the call but were unable to talk to anyone. The officer drove by the alleyway that leads behind the residence and the officer observed multiple people standing in the parking area there. One of them waved to the officer. The officer exited his vehicle and asked if they had called 911 and a female in the group said she had.

One of the males said he was being harassed by another male about where he had parked. The man said he always parks there and has never been told not to. The complainant said he owns the business to the south of the residence and said he is sick of people parking by his building. The officer was shown where the car was parked as the vehicle had already been moved from the spot. The officer thanked the man with the vehicle for moving it and released him from the scene.

The officer spoke with the business owner and the female he was with. The female said they had recently purchased the business and had already complained about beer bottles being left all over the ground near their business. The woman said they continue to find beer bottles and other garbage all over the property after a weekend. The officer advised the duo to speak with the owner of a nearby bar but they said they already had spoken to him and he told them he can’t control what people do when they leave his bar.

The officer recommended the owners purchase no parking signs and speak to the city to find out how much of the parking lot they own. The officer said he would document the complaint and speak with the bar owner.