Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 23

Teton Valley sheriff blotter, the week of May 31–June 6. Four hundred eighty calls came in to the Teton County Sheriff's Office, the busiest week logged this spring. Most were routine patrol, traffic enforcement, and after-hours security checks.

The week's largest response came when a four-wheeler rollover near Packsaddle pulled in search-and-rescue and an air ambulance. An unattended death in Tetonia was turned over to state investigators. A missing-person search stretched across state lines before it came down to a broken phone. And a car in Victor turned up covered in what its owner could only call chili.

By the numbers

• Total calls: 480
• Traffic stops: 134
• Security checks: 126
• Permitted burns: 16
• Violence: 2 (one battery, one threat)
• Property crime: 11 (four thefts, three frauds, three damaged-property calls, one vandalism)
• Disorder: 4 (two trespass, one disturbance, one intoxicated subject)
• Welfare: 4 (two welfare checks, one suicidal subject, one missing person)
• MVA: 4 (three non-injury, one hit-and-run)
• DUI: 1
• Fire/Rescue: 7 (three fire calls, two fire investigations, one fire all-call, one search-and-rescue all-call)
• Ambulance: 4
• Transports: 9
• Public assists: 15
• Miscellaneous: 143 (paper service 26, alarms 12, traffic complaints 10, animal calls 7, consent contacts 7, suspicious activity 6, and assorted smaller call types)

Selected entries from the Teton Valley sheriff blotter follow.

13:16 A deputy in Victor stopped a vehicle for failing to stop and saw a glass bottle in the cup holder. The driver passed a field sobriety test and was cited for an open container.

08:39 A Tetonia resident woke up to find seventeen credit accounts opened in her name. A report was initiated, and she was asked to come to the sheriff's office to provide more details.

15:32 A young raven got its feet stuck to a sticky pad set out on the second floor of a Driggs building where birds had been nesting. The call was referred to Idaho Fish and Game.

11:05 A grocery store in Driggs reported a theft its security cameras had caught start to finish. The footage showed a person working at a box of eye drops in a cart, crouching to check that no one was watching, then tucking something deep into the shelves. Employees later pulled the empty eye-drop box from where it had been left.

11:17 Two store employees in Victor stepped away from the counter. A person came in and took five candy bars, left, came back, took two six-packs of Modelo, and left again. The thefts were caught on camera and are under investigation.

12:14 A Felt caller reported a sister missing, last known to be in Salt Lake City with her boyfriend. Three agencies went looking. Salt Lake City ran a welfare check, and she wasn't there. The sheriff's office traced a phone ping to Idaho Falls and handed the case to Bonneville County, whose deputies went out and made no contact. Then the missing woman reached a relative to say her phone had broken. The search was called off.

09:28 A Driggs caller reported that a friend had been struck in the butt by a stray airsoft round from a neighbor shooting at ground squirrels. Deputies located the shooter and advised him to be more careful about what lies behind his targets.

11:18 The host of a Victor short-term rental reported a $2,500 brass sculpture missing right after a guest checked out. The host called back: the sculpture had turned up in the laundry room.

15:37 An unattended death was reported in Tetonia after a relative, unable to reach a family member, requested a welfare check. The sheriff's office turned the investigation over to Idaho State Police, and a coroner was ordered. Anyone in crisis can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

07:50 A Victor caller reported finding one of the cars in the driveway covered in beans and ketchup. "Looks like chili," the caller said. There were no scratches or other damage. "There is a chicken as well," the caller added.

21:31 A deputy in Victor stopped a speeding vehicle and smelled alcohol; the driver's passenger insisted the odor was hers. A 48-year-old Victor man performed field sobriety tests, declined a breath test, and was arrested for DUI. Deputies obtained a warrant for a blood draw. He was bonded and released, and a sober driver picked up the vehicle.

10:15 A Driggs commercial property reported someone dumping trash behind the building. Some of the trash, it turned out, was addressed to the person who left it. No report was taken.

19:56 A woman rolled a four-wheeler at Packsaddle and could not make it to the trailhead. Search-and-rescue was called to extract her; a fire all-call went out to bring in more responders; and Air Idaho was summoned. Search-and-rescue staged a landing zone, and she was air-lifted out.

23:48 A disturbance in Tetonia grew out of an altercation between a father and his adult son over the son's drinking. The two ended up in a tussle on the ground when the father tried to take the son's keys. Deputies separated them for the night and gave the son a courtesy ride to a relative's house next door.

12:01 Two callers reported the same damaged fence in Victor. One had noticed the chunk missing from it and called it in as a hit-and-run; the other was the driver, who had already reported hitting it himself and said he would circle back after dropping off his kids. The driver was cited for driving faster than reasonable.

21:35 A caller reported a man swaying and slurring his words while talking to an attendant at a Victor gas station. The man had already left, with no plate on his vehicle, and deputies searching the area could not locate him.

23:26 A caller reported a vehicle with no license plate leaving Victor with its lights off, followed it, lost it, and spotted it again on Highway 33 toward Driggs. Deputies stopped the vehicle for driving without its headlights. The occupants explained they were spotting coyotes.

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