What's Your Emergency?

Editor's note: This is a new weekly column featuring reports gleaned from sheriff's and police dispatch logs in Kootenai County.

Sunday, March 2

* A Rathdrum business reported a break-in. Once on scene, deputies discovered that someone had drilled a hole through the deadbolt attached to the door.

Monday, March 3

* A deputy responded to the Gateway Resort in Harrison, where the owner reported that someone had cut the cables on several of the security cameras on the property.

* Deputies responded to Walmart in Hayden for a reported theft. Once on scene, store security informed them that a woman was seen on camera putting on new shoes and placing her old ones in the shoe box.

Tuesday, March 4

* Dispatch was informed that a patient suffering from dementia at the Coeur d'Alene Care Center had wandered away from the building.

* An Athol woman told deputies that an unknown male "with a Pakistan or Indian accent" called her and asked if she would like a free government loan. When the woman declined the offer, the man cursed at her and hung up.

Wednesday, March 5

* Law enforcement officers closed down a portion of Prairie Avenue in Post Falls due to flooded streets. An on-scene officer requested backup because people were "going crazy."

* Dispatch informed officers that a Coeur d'Alene boy called and said he may have overdosed. The boy also claimed that his mom lets him take drugs and drink.

Thursday, March 6

* A deputy was sent by dispatch to investigate reports of four boys smoking on a street corner.

* A woman reported that a semi-truck would not let her merge onto Interstate 90. Dispatch informed the woman that the driver was not required to change lanes.

Friday, March 7

* Officers were paged to a local law enforcement office lobby because a woman was inside, screaming that "the devil is inside of her."

* A Post Falls Police Department officer informed dispatch that he was looking for three youths who were smoking in a van.