A young man was wandering around Walmart asking people to purchase a BB gun for him on March 30. Detective Ron Bridge said the boy’s parents were informed, but it technically wasn’t illegal since a BB gun is not a firearm and there’s no law against minors asking others to buy weapons for them. Other highlights include two men getting lost snowmobiling last weekend.
March 28
A Woodland man complained that two people were snooping around with flashlights at 2 a.m.
Deputies were asked to assist with a sick or injured cow elk that couldn’t move in Charleston.
At 2:50 p.m. deputies were on the look out for a woman who drove past a stopped school bus with flashing lights between Francis and Kamas.
A small child called 911 and told them, “He said he would kill me, but I got away.” His father clarified that he was playing with a 9-year-old cousin.
A California man called deputies saying his truck had been stolen, but not really because he knew who took it, but didn’t know how to get a hold of him. He wanted to know what his options were.
March 29
Straw enough to break a back: 20 bails of hay that fell off a truck and into the road in Coalville.
A snowmobiler called for help after getting disoriented. Deputies picked him up near Current Creek Knoblets. He did not know where his party parked or how to find them.
People in Oakley reported for lighting fireworks around 9 p.m. because it was scaring horses.
March 30
At 4 a.m. a van parked in an unauthorized area was supposedly shining light into the bedroom window of the caller’s daughter. It was “really starting to freak her out.”
A caller complained “there are people in his home while he is not there.” A neighbor tipped him off the night before about half a dozen people in his hot tub at 11 p.m. Two cars were still in the driveway that morning.
An Oakley man complained of people dumping trash along Rob Young Lane.
The Oakley resident called again about fireworks being lit in a neighbor’s driveway.
March 31
A mother was tattled-on for leaving two small children in a truck while she ran into Panda Express.
An attorney called deputies reporting people removing items from a home in the Snyderville Basin despite a restraining order on the bank from doing so.
A Sandy mother called deputies about her daughter’s friend, who had taken her daughter’s credit card and other personal items and was at the Westgate, where she was not allowed.
A caller asked deputies to investigate a man who jumped out of his vehicle near Wanship and began punching someone in the back seat who the caller thought might be a child.
At 4:15 p.m., a woman called deputies needing help contacting ski patrol to help her with an injury.
An “extremely loud” party reported at Redstone Village around 10:30 p.m.
A Silver Creek resident called deputies after a roommate refused to move out and was threatening to put sugar in his or her gas tank.
April 1
Unruly people in a hot tub reported at 12:30 a.m.
Around 1 a.m. a resident reported a “nut job” near his home being very loud because of a stuck snowmobile.
A semi-truck stopped and dumped a large bag of trash into a ditch before driving away.
A burglary was reported in the Silver Creek area. Three people were seen leaving the home.
Two intoxicated men were reported behind Sundial Lodge and were asked to leave.
April 2
A Coalville man complained kids were “riding dirt bikes at high rates up and down the road.”
People behind the Basin 7-11 were flipping rocks onto vehicles.
A man called deputies because he accidentally locked his 9-month-old baby in his car.
A man told his wife to call the Sheriff’s Office after he became lost snowmobiling near Canyon Rim Ranch.
April 3
At 1:30 a.m. a caller reported a man and a woman trying to break into a home near Trailside Elementary.
Over a dozen callers last week slid off the road while driving over half during the storm the night of April 2 and 3. Deputies responded to issues with controlled substances about eight times last week. Dogs were used in searches three times. The sheriff’s office was asked to help with truant teenagers three times.