Teton Valley Sheriff Blotter 2026 Week 25

Teton Valley sheriff blotter, the week of June 14–20. Three hundred ninety-seven calls came in to the Teton County Sheriff's Office. Most were patrol, traffic enforcement, and after-hours security checks.

An older kayaker flipped his boat on the Teton River and was pulled out by search and rescue. A man cut a fence on posted private land to graze his cattle. Deputies made two DUI arrests in Driggs. A firework came over a fence and scorched a neighbor's yard. No theft or fraud reports came in all week.

By the numbers

• Total calls: 397
• Traffic stops: 136
• Security checks: 42
• Permitted burns: 5
• Violence: 1 (one battery report)
• Property crime: 1 (one malicious-injury-to-property report)
• Disorder: 4 (one harassment, one trespass, one intoxicated subject, one underage-consumption report)
• Welfare: 5 (two welfare checks, two missing-person reports, one child-abuse report)
• MVA: 6 (five non-injury, one injury)
• DUI: 2
• Fire/Rescue: 5 (two fire calls, one fire all-call, one search-and-rescue, one search-and-rescue all-call)
• Ambulance: 10 (seven ambulance, three medical transfers)
• Transports: 5
• Public assists: 17
• Miscellaneous: 158 (911 unfounded 18, paper service 13, suspicious activity 13, agency assists 12, animal calls 11, alarms 9, traffic complaints 9, traffic hazards 9, consent contacts 9, and assorted smaller call types)

Selected entries from the Teton Valley sheriff blotter follow.

11:39 The manager of a Driggs subdivision reported people riding ATVs around the empty lots and asked a deputy to make sure they weren't tearing up the ground. Deputies responded but couldn't find any ATVs.

08:17 Two vehicles collided in Victor with six occupants between them. A juvenile driver was cited for failing to yield and for driving without a licensed adult over 21 in the car. One of the passengers, now running late, had been on the way to a probation check-in. Those involved were medically cleared at the scene. Both vehicles had front-end damage.

12:18 Someone dumped a refrigerator on a Victor resident's property. The resident asked whether a deputy could help move it. Moving refrigerators is not a service the sheriff's office provides.

20:40 A deputy stopped a vehicle outside Driggs for speeding through a construction zone and for excessive window tint. Field sobriety testing followed, and the driver, a 34-year-old Victor man, was arrested for DUI. Tests put his blood-alcohol level at .151 and .153. The vehicle was towed.

14:33 An older man flipped his kayak on the Teton River. Search and rescue reached him, and the trip downstream to the boat ramp took the better part of two hours; medics cleared him a little after 16:00.

20:22 Two people were cited in Victor for underage drinking. Sober friends came to pick them up.

18:00 A property manager in Victor called after guests trying to check in to a short-term rental found what looked like someone already living there, belongings and all. Deputies made entry with the manager. The place, it appeared, had been double-booked.

12:06 A report of a missing juvenile reached the sheriff's office secondhand: a caller in California, routed through the Idaho State Police, reported a child, and a credit card transaction had placed them in Driggs. A license-plate reader picked up the vehicle, and the search moved from county to county. Fremont County was already aware of it, and Madison County eventually located the child.

21:40 Deputies spotted hitchhikers on the highway south of Victor and told them to go to the gas station. Standing on a highway to solicit a ride is illegal in Idaho.

16:14 A man reported being punched in the side of the head at a Driggs bar. According to the sheriff's office, one group had followed another from a bar in Tetonia, and the disagreement escalated into a shouting match before both were asked to leave. The case remains under investigation.

08:48 A Victor resident reported that a firework had come over the fence the night before and set the backyard alight, with flames reported as high as ten feet. The resident, who had recently put up the fence to keep a neighbor's dogs out, doused the fire and was left with a scorched circle about 42 inches across. A deputy contacted the fire chief about advising the public on general fireworks safety.

20:06 An employee at a Victor brewery called about a patron who seemed intoxicated, was complaining of chest pains, and mentioned having several prior DUIs. A deputy responded and took no report; a passerby offered him a ride.

18:08 A toddler had been missing for about half an hour in Victor. One deputy had reached the scene, and a second was still en route when the mother reported that the child had been found.

23:22 A deputy stopped a 42-year-old driver for going 67 in a 55 outside Driggs and spotted two open containers in the vehicle. The driver failed field sobriety testing and declined a breathalyzer. He was arrested for DUI, then bonded and released.

14:43 The hospital in Driggs reported treating a woman for an animal bite. The animal was her own cat.

10:44 A 58-year-old St. Anthony man cut a fence on posted private land near Tetonia to let cattle graze. The property owner said he would rather settle the matter privately. Reached by phone, the man admitted it and told deputies his family had been using the land for well over a hundred years and had no intention of stopping.

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