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Colfax Police Department responds to 94 calls for service in June

COLFAX  —  According to the report presented to the Colfax Village Board at the July 24 meeting, the Colfax Police Department responded to 94 calls for service in June and made 23 traffic stops.

Here are the calls for service:

• Assist other agency: 5 — missing child; brush fire; disorderly male; gas smell; traffic accident.

• Traffic accident: 3 — parking lot; hit and run; rollover crash.

• Ambulance assist: 3.

• Disorderly conduct: 3 — argument between dating couple; roommates arguing.

• Civil: 1 — property damage.

• 911 Hangup/misdial: 4.

• Property watch: 1 — school construction.

• Animal complaint: 4 — cat at large; aggressive cat; dog in distress; barking dog.

• Suspicious vehicle: 3 — late night occupied car in cemetery; late night occupied car at ball field; late night occupied car at school.

• Abatement: 1 — cars and miscellaneous items on property.

• Warrant: 2 — failure to appear in court; child support.

• Fraud: 1 — worthless check.

• Trespass: 2 — Colfax Railroad Museum; male subject living in basement of Colfax Manor Apartments.

• Juvenile: 4 — missing child; curfew; disorderly; suspicious activity.

• Traffic complaint: 1 — reckless driver.

• Check welfare: 3 — two different calls of a suicidal female; male threatening to kill himself with an armed shotgun.

• Suspicious person: 5 — intoxicated male; people hanging around culvert; juveniles with a hatchet; person creeping around business and alley.

• Alarm: 1 — alarm at school.

• Theft: 3 — gas drive off; donation jar stolen at dollar general, which was recovered and money returned; cell phone stolen.

• Property damage: 7 — pool; tires on bicycles; car tires cut/slashed.

• Miscellaneous: 1 — unfounded report of underage drinking.

• Parking complaint: 2 — unauthorized vehicle in parking lot; semi parked on side street.

• Noise complaint: 1 — loud music.

• Motorist assist: 2.

• Mental: 1 — heavily intoxicated female transported from Colfax to hospital in Menomonie.

• Domestic: 1 — disorderly male arrested.

• Utility: 1 — lights flashing in well house.

• Littering: 1 — garbage on lawn from neighbor.

• Probation violation: 1 — person on a “no drink” arrested.

• Drugs: 2 — person arrested for attempting to sell; complaint of person trying to provide drugs.

• Fireworks complaint: 1.