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The following is a list of calls, provided by the Forest Grove Police Department, that officers responded to during the past week.

June 26

* A local fast food establishment called police after a customer wanted to fight an employee over a hamburger. The customer left in a vehicle prior to police arrival.

* Officers responded to assist Washington County Sheriff's deputies in Cornelius on a possible burglary in progress. When officers arrived, the homeowner reported that a subject wearing all pink was sitting in a chair in his living room. Police checked the home but found no one.

* A woman started yelling at officers and making rude and disparaging remarks about them when they refused to buy her rolling paper for her cigarettes.

June 27

* A man complained that a neighbor threw a bag of dog feces over his fence.

* Officers completed extra patrol in the woods near the B Street bridge and warned three people for trespassing.

* A man called to complain about a driver who failed to stop for him while he was walking across the street resulting in an argument. The man admitted to flipping off the driver, who responded in same, resulting in the argument.

June 28

* A resident reported the theft of a package off the front porch. Officers assisted and discovered the package was still at the post office.

* Police responded to a call of a woman throwing things at cars and yelling obscenities. Officers arrived and found several pork chops lying on the ground. The woman had apparently dropped her meat and was upset no one stopped to help her. She was also intoxicated.

* Police checked on a man reportedly lying in the middle of the street, wrapped in a blanket. The man said he was looking at the stars and "hearing strange things."

June 29

* Police checked on a woman who was reportedly "rolling around in the street."

* A woman reported her tires slashed and suspects her ex-boyfriend.

* Officers responded to a domestic dispute over disciplining a child.

June 30

* A resident on David Hill Road heard a shot in the area and reportedly saw a 50-pound cougar.

* A woman was hit by air soft pellets after investigating the sound of something hitting her window. Officers charged a juvenile neighbor for assault and criminal mischief after he admitted shooting cans from his window.

* A caller reported hearing a woman banging on a car and honking the horn. Officers arrived and discovered the woman was lighting pieces of paper and her hair on fire. She was taken into protective custody and transported to the hospital.

July 1

* A woman came home to find her back door open and learned the alarm had tripped. An officer contacted the alarm company and learned they did not make notification on the alarm because records showed the homeowner did not have an alarm permit. The officer informed the alarm company that this was a problem as the City of Forest Grove does not require alarm permits.

* Police completed a sweep of the trails near B Street bridge and left several notices on camps to disband.

* Officers responded to an argument heard between a man and a woman. Police found one woman arguing with herself.

July 2

* A woman with a small child was asked to leave a residence she had been staying at and complained she had nowhere to stay. An officer offered to personally pay for a night's lodging at a local motel, however she refused because she wanted to stay "somewhere nicer." She was provided a bus pass instead with best wishes.

* An officer assisted a stranded motorist by changing a tire.

* A woman called to report she had information related to a Washington County investigation. When police arrived, she was unable to provide a coherent statement and identified herself as a nurse, then a nurse practitioner and later "a doctor, but not really." Police suspect she might be having a mental health episode and advised her to get some sleep and then put her information down in writing.



-- Samantha Swindler

@editorswindler / 503-294-4031

sswindler@oregonian.com