It was a week of registering sleepy, intoxicated people in the Estevan Police Service (EPS) cells it seemed.
According to the latest EPS reports, officers responded to a report of an unknown person in a residential yard on the night of June 12. They found the highly intoxicated man wandering around in the yard with no intended purpose. He was arrested for trespassing and public intoxication and placed in cells for the night. He was released with a July court date.
Police were next alerted to an intoxicated man who appeared to be passed out in a back lane in the central part of the city. Police located him and lodged him in cells.
During the course of the evening, EPS members made several checks on local motorists and several 24-hour driving suspensions were handed out as a result of their efforts.
On the night of June 13, EPS members found an intoxicated man passed out on the sidewalk in front of a business in the central part of the city. He was arrested and lodged in cells until sober and now has a July court date in which to respond to a charge of being intoxicated in public.
That same evening, EPS members were called to a local lounge in response to a report of a fight in progress. When they arrived, they found one man who had suffered minor injuries. He was treated on the scene by emergency medical personnel and police have opened an investigation into the incident.
On the night of June 14, police were called to an apartment with regards to a noise complaint. When EPS members arrived and spoke to the person who lodged the complaint, they were told that the noise had ended and it appeared that the noise makers had left the building.
Local police members were then called out in response to a domestic dispute on the southwest side of the city. The situation had been defused prior to police arrival, so officers monitored the situation while the parties involved separated for the night.
Another domestic disturbance in a mobile home court that same evening led to the discovery by police that the dispute had erupted in the morning and had slowly escalated during the day. The two parties were separated but neither one wanted to proceed with charges so no further action was required by police.
Two men who had been fighting in a local lounge were located by police on the night of June 17. The two combatants had already separated, but one of them continued a verbal barrage, so he was subsequently arrested for being intoxicated in public and placed in cells until regaining sobriety.
While on patrol EPS members spotted a person who they knew had several outstanding warrants issued against him, so he was arrested on those conditions and lodged in cells.
EPS were then called out to a local business where it was reported that a person was sleeping in the back area of their parking lot. The highly intoxicated man was arrested and lodged in cells.
On another June 17 call, EPS members attended to a local lounge in response to a call regarding a customer who was refusing to leave the premises when asked to do so by staff members. Upon police arrival the man in question decided that perhaps it was in his best interests to depart, and he did so without any further police intervention.
