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Colfax Police Department responds to 75 calls for service in September

COLFAX — The Colfax Police Department responded to 75 calls for service in September and had 14 traffic stops.

Here are the calls:

• Assist other agency: 3 — injured deer and two car crashes.

• Traffic accident: 3 — parking lot, semi on 170, bus backed into a hole.

• Ambulance assist: 3.

• Assist citizen: 1 — disposal of medications.

• Civil: 2 — personal property dispute; marital property division.

• 911 hangup/misdial: 3.

• Open door: 1 — high school bus garage.

• Animal complaint: 8 — found dog; stray transported to humane society; 2 dogs at large; 2 lost dogs; dog with no leash; welfare check on dog.

• Suspicion: 8 — 4 separate reports of suspicious vehicles at the fairgrounds; suspicious males on bikes; suspicious people at fairgrounds; suspicious male at apartments.

• OVT: 1 — two-hour limit.

• Warrant: 2 — fail to appear on felony drug charges; probation warrant.

• Child custody: 3 — child not returned on time; custody dispute in parking lot during exchange; stand by during an exchange.

• Juvenile: 2 — check on welfare of young male; disorderly juvenile at residence.

• Traffic complaint: 5 — 3 separate complaints in the area of school involving different vehicles possibly violating different traffic laws; vehicle on railroad tracks; semis possibly violating restricted roads.

• Check welfare: 2 — male with health problems; suicidal person taken to hospital in Rhinelander.

• Drugs: 1 — marijuana found on individual.

• Theft: 1 — cell phones.

• Lost/found: 1 — bicycle.

• Public relations: 1 — high school.

• Vandalism: 2 — old health and rehab building; high school.

• Worthless check: 1.

• Utility: 1 — light on at well.

• Traffic arrest: 1 — operating after revocation.

• Burglary: 2 — money taken from residences.

• Probation hold: 1 — male taken to jail.

• Disorderly conduct: 2 — subject counseled on behavior; male taken to jail for threats.