Colfax PD reports 52 calls for service in August
COLFAX — The Colfax Police Department is reporting 52 calls for service in August, including 12 traffic stops.
• Assist other agency: 3 — traffic accident, domestic, traffic stop, mental subject.
• Burning complaint: 1 — report of a large amount of smoke coming from a lot in the trailer park; a fire in the fire ring.
• Ambulance assist: 3.
• Lost/Found: 1 — bicycle abandoned in a ditch.
• Information: 3 — wanted person in area, drug paraphernalia found in park, large amount of debris at a residence.
• Suspicious person/car: 5 — 2 reports of suspicious cars at different locations (subjects were playing Pokemon Go); male subject on a person’s deck; wanted person at a residence; vehicle parked on another’s property.
• Check welfare: 2 — elderly female had not been heard from for a couple of days; subject with mental health issues hallucinating.
• Open door: 1 — lights on, door open at warming house at Tom Prince Memorial Park; no one around and building secured (12:45 a.m. 8/21/2016).
• Juvenile complaint: 1 — inappropriate behavior between siblings.
• Alarm: 1 — business alarm accidental set-off.
• Assist citizen: 1 — retrieve property from a family member’s residence for safekeeping.
• Property watch: 2 — resident vacationing; resident in hospital.
• 911 Hangup/misdial: 1.
• Harassment: 1 — subject claiming to be harassed and followed by soon-to-be ex-wife.
• Property inspection: 1 — annual safety inspection at CTL Foods.
• Disorderly conduct: 1 — elderly male excessively honking and yelling outside of residence.
• Child custody: 1 — disagreement over court-ordered child visitation.
• Theft: 4 — stolen vehicle recovered in Minnesota; 3 other vehicles had items stolen from them.
• Miscellaneous: 3 — election signs removed; underage drinking that had occurred in Menomonie; report of person yelling in the area.
• Traffic Accident: 1 — hit and run on University Avenue with 2 cars damaged.
• Domestic: 2 — subject arrested for battery and strangulation toward girlfriend; intoxicated family members arguing.
• Warrant: 1 — subject arrested on Chippewa County warrants.