Creston RCMP responded to 78 calls for service from July 21-27, Staff Sgt. Bob Gollan said on Monday.
July 21
•When patrolling police saw a couple of vehicles parked under the Lower Wynndel Road underpass late at night, they checked up on them. One Saskatchewan driver was found to be prohibited and was arrested, and a small amount of marijuana was seized from the vehicle. The other vehicle also contained a small amount of marijuana that was seized. Its passenger was arrested for being drunk in public and held in police cells overnight. A substance found in the vehicle is being checked in a lab on the suspicion it is a narcotic.
•A chequebook was reported lost in Riondel on Ainsworth Road.
•An Ibbitson Street resident reported that in the last five weeks some items were stolen, including a gold ring, scissors and another ring with an aquamarine stone.
•A conflict between two businesses was reported from Canyon Street.
•In an ongoing problem, a disoriented elderly female was reported walking on Canyon-Lister Road.
•About $5,000 in damage resulted when one semi rolled back into another at the weigh scales at Highway 3/95 junction.
•A metal detector was reported stolen from a vehicle on Ninth Avenue South.
•Extensive damage was sustained by a vehicle that collided with a moose on Highway 3. The driver was taken to hospital for observation.
•When police conducted a well-being check on a 91-year-old female, they learned she was in the hospital.
•RCMP are asking anyone with knowledge about vandalism to benches at Erickson Elementary School to report it. Several male youths were reported to be prying boards from the benches, but had left before police arrived.
July 22
•A vehicle backed into a post in a Helen Street parking lot.
•After contacting the registered owner about a complaint about a truck driving erratically on Northwest Boulevard, police were told the employer would address the situation with the driver.
•Police assisted Vernon RCMP by executing an outstanding warrant on a male.
•A male reported to be causing a disturbance at a business at the Highway 3/95 intersection was gone when police arrived.
•A 71-year-old male who fell off a ladder at his Crawford Creek residence died as a result. The coroner’s office is investigating.
•A vehicle swerved to avoid a deer on Riondel Road and landed in a residential yard.
•A male who had no driver’s licence due to a prohibition for medical reasons was involved in a two-car collision. He was issued a ticket.
•The theft of items from a truck was reported from Moyie Lake.
•When a well-being check was conducted on 44th Street, the female resident was found in need of medical care and taken to hospital.
July 23
•Police attended a Lyons Road residence to assist Lethbridge police in an assault investigation.
•A male who reported being tailed by another male driver on Leadville Forest Service Road was advised to seek a peace bond in the courts.
•An 82-year-old male driver who reportedly pulled out from a Canyon Street parking spot without doing a shoulder check told police he didn’t notice another vehicle when he was located.
•Police concluded that damage to trees blamed on an Eighth Avenue South neighbour was more likely caused by insects and neglect.
•Police were unable to locate a southbound black and orange Mustang reported to be passing unsafely on Highway 3A near Twin Bays.
•A dog was reported to be locked in a vehicle on Pine Street.
•A complaint about the division of goods in an estate was made from Canyon-Lister Road.
•When police investigated a report of a nude female jumping off Goat River Bridge into the water, they found she was topless, which isn’t against the law. When told the complaint came from a mother with young children she voluntarily covered herself.
•A motor vehicle’s window was broken on 11th Avenue South.
•Investigating police determined an argument, not an assault, had taken place at the Garland Bay campground.
•A male with an arrest warrant from a Vancouver Street assault turned himself into Creston police and was later released with a court order not to have contact with his victim.
July 24
•A driver who did a 360-degree spinout on Highway 3 was located and told police he was unfamiliar with the vehicle and not used to the gearing.
•A 93-year-old male died in his 12th Avenue residence. The death is not considered suspicious.
July 25
•One hundred eighty-nine marijuana plants were destroyed during the execution of a search warrant near Sirdar.
•A resident’s dog bit a hiker who wandered onto private property on Rykerts Road.
•Campers squatting near Ash Street were gone when police arrived.
July 26
•Noisy campers were reported at a Riondel campground.
•Damage to an ATM on 11th Avenue North was reported and a video surveillance camera picked up the action. The culprit turned himself in on his own accord and charges will not be pressed. He will work out restitution with the business.
•Minor injuries were sustained when a driver fell asleep and rolled his truck over into a ditch on Highway 3. Damage was also sustained by the Harley Davidson motorcycle in the truck box.
•Police are attempting to locate a female after a male was assaulted on 20th Avenue South.
•A harassment complaint was made from 33rd Avenue North when, after an estrangement, a male changed a female’s Facebook account name and password.
•No injuries were reported when a vehicle went off Highway 21 and into the ditch.
•Police attended a Sixth Avenue North residence to keep the peace while a former tenant retrieved belongings.
July 27
•Four people sustained minor injuries in a collision on Highway 3 in which a driver attempted an unsafe left turn and struck an oncoming vehicle. Extensive damage was reported.
•A theft of jewelry from a Lakeview-Arrow Creek Road residence was reported to have occurred in the past year.
•Naked adults were reported to be swimming in the Goat River near Canyon Bridge.
•A female saw a driver open his door and hit her vehicle in a Cook Street parking lot, but didn’t get any information about the vehicle or driver.
•A driver was taken to hospital after he missed a curve on Mallory Road and put his motorcycle into the ditch.
•A dozen gunshots were reportedly fired into the river at Highway 3/95.