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PM Scanner Traffic — 10.5.09

  • 5:33 p.m. EMTs responding to a stabbing involving an 8YO and a 7YO in 6500 block of Flagstaff Street/Rathdrum. Wound is minor.
  • 4:56 p.m. An hysterical 17YO girl is fighting her mother for taking her cell phone away.
  • 4:29 p.m. Someone has kicked in drywall at a vacant house @ Torrey & Broadmoore/Hayden.
  • 4:18 p.m. Injured orange cat reported @ Cougar Gulch & Meadowbrook/CdA.
  • 4:14 p.m. R/P reports aggressive panhandlers @ Super 1/Kathleen entrance.
  • 3:57 p.m. A disorderly male with long black hair and beard is yelling at vehicles as he walks w/2 other people @ 3rd & Garden/CdA.
  • Much more below
  • 3:33 p.m. A downed tree is blocked traffic @ Poleline & Chase/Post Falls.
  • 3:18 p.m. R/P reports to Worley Fire that tires are burning @ H95 & County Line Road. It's unknown whether tires are on a vehicle or in a field.
  • 2:54 p.m. A suspicious male is being detained at the North Idaho College library.
  • 2:24 p.m. Resident in 15000 block of Highway 53 is angry that a water truck is on his side road. 
  • 2:22 p.m. 4 suspicious "elderly gentlemen" are handing out fliers @ Post Falls Middle School/16th Ave.
  • 1:29 p.m. Neighbor reports an 18YO tried to break into a home in the 5400 block of W. Fairway Lane. The 18YO claimed he was the homeowners' grandson. But the neighbor was told by phone by homeowners vacationing in Canada they have no grandson.
  • 1:13 p.m. An 87YO woman at Whispering Pines on 4th/CdA has been on the floor all morning after falling.
  •  12:59 p.m. Neighbor on Woodvine/Hayden reports she ran over her neighbor's dog and wants someone to see if the animal is dead.
  • 12:49 p.m. Colleen reports she has contained a yellow Lab that has been loose @ Clagstone & Brunner since last Wednesday.
  • 12:14 p.m. Jogger reports that a suspicious male in a pickup drove by her 5 or 6 times and that he drove in and out of a number of driveways @ Riverview & Highland.
  • AM Scanner Traffic


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    D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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