Creston RCMP responded to 74 calls for service from Oct. 29-Nov. 4, Cpl. Monte Taylor said on Monday.
October 29
•A vehicle pulled out from a parking spot on Canyon Street and collided with another vehicle. No injuries were reported.
•A vehicle reported to be abandoned on Highway 3 near Summit Creek Bridge was found to be owned by prospectors who are in the area.
•Police are attempting to locate the owner of a substantial amount of cash that was left in a Northwest Boulevard business.
•A male at a 22nd Avenue residence called police because his parents were retrieving items that they had loaned him. He wanted them charged with breaking and entering.
•Parents were spoken to after three male youths were found to be goofing around in the hospital, riding wheelchairs around the hallways.
•The reported theft of two firearms in the 7000 block of Highway 3 is being investigated.
•A female from Calgary called to report that her stolen car might be in Creston. Police were unable to locate the vehicle.
•Police conducted a well-being check on a female and found she was OK.
•A 911 call from Meadow Creek Road drew a visit from police, who found nothing amiss at the residence.
October 30
•A male who was not wanted in a Wilmott Road residence left when the residents called 911 to complain.
•A male who swerved to avoid a deer in the fog on Lakeview-Arrow Creek Road went off the road, into the ditch and slammed into a tree. He was taken to Cranbrook hospital for treatment.
•A chainsaw was stolen in a break-in to a cabin and toolshed on Riondel Road.
•A severely intoxicated male walking along Highway 3 in Erickson was arrested and held in police cells until sober.
•A male who might have been stabbed in the hand, requiring hospital treatment, refused to co-operate with police.
October 31
•Police are investigating a report of a threat by a female on her father.
•A report of a male breaking into a relative’s house and RV on Highway 3A led to a number of incidents involving a man who was previously released from jail after being convicted on a harassment charge. He was arraigned on the break-in charges on Oct. 31 and released on conditions. Two days later, he broke the conditions and returned to his relative’s home, again breaking into the RV. He then appeared before a justice of the peace via videoconference and was remanded to custody, now facing seven break and entering charges and one each of breaching an undertaking and breaching a conditional sentence order.
•Police were called about a dispute between neighbours involving the burning of yard waste.
•Creston police delivered a notice of death to next of kin on behalf of North Vancouver police.
•A semi that missed the turn on Highway 3 at Curzon Junction attempted to turn around before getting to the border crossing at Kingsgate. He backed into the ditch and rolled the tractor and peat moss-loaded trailer onto their sides.
•Police are trying to locate a female who left a quantity of personal belongings behind when she left the ferry at Kootenay Bay.
•An old flashing police car light was stolen from a Hillside Street yard on Halloween night.
•An Elm Street resident reported his teenage son had failed to return home at the appointed time. The youth arrived home an hour later.
November 1
•A person with a suspected overdose was transported from Riondel to Nelson hospital by ambulance.
•Police attended an Evans Road residence to keep the peace while a female retrieved some belongings.
•A Northwest Boulevard business was the intended victim of a fraudulent phone scam. Fortunately, no money changed hands.
•A female Elm Street resident was attended to by police after a neighbor reported she had a bleeding head. She said she was assaulted but refused to co-operate with police.
•A female who failed one roadside screening device test at the Kingsgate border crossing, then blew a warn on the second test, was issued a three-day driving prohibition and her vehicle was impounded for three days.
November 2
•Creston police assisted SPCA personnel in serving a summons on a Yahk resident for causing injury to a dog and two counts of illegal trapping.
•A male was arrested and later released on conditions following a domestic assault on 35th Avenue South.
November 3
•An abandoned 911 call from Gray Creek was traced to an unoccupied residence.
•Males operating dirt bikes on Reclamation Road were warned not to do so.
•Police were called to the community complex, where two teens who were banned from the premises had been seen checking pockets of coats hanging on racks. No theft was noted.
•Police conducted a couple of well-being checks at residences where phone service was disrupted for several days.
November 4
•Police are investigating a fight that took place at a local pub.
•A male driver called to complain about a cyclist riding in the driving lane on Northwest Boulevard. Police found that the driver had honked at the cyclist, who was attempting to make a left turn. The cyclist responded by dropping his bike and kicking the car. The cyclist was entitled to be in what the driver referred to as “the driving lane”, but was told that kicking a car is not within the law.
•Four youths reported to be creating a nuisance around a church on 16th Avenue North could not be located.