Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 22

Teton Valley sheriff blotter, the week of May 24–30. Three hundred and sixty calls came in to the Teton County Sheriff's Office over the Memorial Day holiday week. Most were routine: 93 traffic stops, 65 after-hours security checks, 19 permitted burns. Just one was a DUI arrest.

Elsewhere: thirteen motorist assists, thirteen ambulance and transfer calls, eleven 911 misdials, seven false or unconfirmed alarms, seven suspicious-activity reports, several reports of possible drunk drivers, five abandoned vehicles, six non-injury accidents, two priority paper services logged two minutes apart in different towns, two animal-bite calls, three reckless drivers, a warrant arrest, a Felt brush fire that drew an all-call, a malicious-injury-to-property report a resident brought on a lawyer's advice, and a 5 a.m. repossession in Victor.

Selected entries from the Teton Valley sheriff blotter follow.

14:56 A Tetonia resident reported someone helping themselves to a private dumpster. The garbage contained identifying information, which led deputies to a now-vacant residence and to a suspect who had been out of the county since 2023.

20:53 A deputy stopped a vehicle in Tetonia after watching it weave across the center line; when he caught up to it, the driver slowed by 20 miles an hour. The driver, a 48-year-old Driggs woman, smelled of alcohol and swayed as she stepped out. Her last drink had been about an hour earlier, she said, and it had been a lot. She couldn't finish the field sobriety test, and asked the deputy to take her to jail. Her breath tested at .264 and .266, more than three times the legal limit. A friend retrieved the vehicle, and she was bonded and released with a court date.

09:02 A business in Tetonia reported a vehicle stolen from one of its yards. No one could say exactly when it had gone; it had last been seen in December. The company was less concerned with getting it back than with finding out whether it had been used in a crime.

17:10 A caller in Driggs reported that an employee was threatening children. Deputies found the exchange had been verbal, and it resolved the other way around: the employee wanted the family gone, and it was the family who left with a trespass notice from the business.

22:57 Deputies broke up a graduation party on public land at Pine Creek Pass and cited several juveniles for underage consumption. All involved were picked up by sober drivers.

14:33 A deputy in Victor stopped a vehicle for going 65 in a 55 and searched it on the smell of marijuana. A 38-year-old Pocatello man was cited for misdemeanor possession of marijuana and paraphernalia.

22:28 A battery was reported at a Tetonia residence after a woman said her husband had slapped her. The husband acknowledged it; the woman declined to pursue charges, and the two separated for the night. Anyone experiencing domestic violence can reach the Family Safety Network's 24-hour crisis line at (208) 354-7233 for confidential support.

19:22 A deputy traveling through Driggs spotted a vehicle pulled off the road and a man relieving himself at the back of his van, facing the roadway. The man, 65, said he was on his own property. The deputy acknowledged this was true, but told him the direction was the problem and asked him to stop and talk. The man swore at him and kept walking. He was cited for indecent exposure, and told that if he'd been polite about it, he wouldn't have been.

23:40 A local resident contacted the sheriff's office after receiving a text from a friend, out of state, who said she intended to kill herself. Anyone in crisis can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

22:24 A deputy running a security check in Victor ended up citing one person for underage consumption and a passenger for littering and an open container. Both were released to their parents.

21:59 A Victor resident reported gunshots in the area. They were sure it was fireworks; the trouble was that it kept waking the baby, and they wanted it to stop.

The Teton Valley sheriff blotter is compiled from Teton County Sheriff's Office dispatch logs.