A complaint about a neighbor stealing water turned into drug and burglary arrests for an Olney man and two women, Olney police reports show. On March 16, Olney Police Detective Dustin Hudson was dispatched to 1007 W. Payne to investigate a call about water theft and discovered a water hose leading from the house into the backyard of 1005 W Payne, according to a police report.
According to a press release from Animal Investigation and Response (AIR), police were called to the home on March 24 for a welfare check and found the dogs living in their own feces and urine, barricaded in rooms inside the residence.
Olney Police Officer Joe Logan will move fulltime into code enforcement to speed up the City’s attempts to clean up code violations and tear down condemned structures, Police Chief Dan Birbeck told the City Council at its March 13 meeting.
The City Council discussed how to spend the remaining $600,000 in federal COVID funds from the American Rescue Plan Act at its March 13 meeting as the deadline approaches to spend the money or lose it. “Over this next month, let’s work together … and come up with a list of what we think we will need with that balance, ” Mayor Rue Rogers told the Council. The Council voted to