Driver reports group in masks at library parking lot

Heard on: Benton County WA Law Dispatch

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Dispatch Richland Zone Two, suspicious circumstance at the Richland Library, 955 Northgate.

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Robert Seven Five, details.

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Robert Seven Five, the reporting party is advising there are ten people in clown masks that keep coming up to him.

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This occurred ten ago, and then they came to the back of the trunk and were trying to open it.

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And now the RP is advising he thinks he ran one over.

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Seven Five, you can suspend me and I'll be en route.

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Received. I am on the phone with the reporting.

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Reporting party now, and they advise they're going to drive to the station.

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Can you go through the details again? Sorry.

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No, that was my fault.

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The reporting party advised that they're going to drive to the station.

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Copy that. I will go there and meet them.

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670.

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Robert 670 dispatch, can you put me on that as well?

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Robert 670, do you think? Robert 82 dispatch, you can put me on that as well.

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I'll be searching the library.

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I'm at KMT now.

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Copy, I'll try and get a vehicle description.

2026-10-22 07:17 UTC

Suspicious Activity

Northgate Dr, Richland, WA 99352

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, dispatch received a report of a possible suspicious incident near the Richland library on Northgate Drive. A reporting party said about ten people wearing clown masks repeatedly approached him and tried to open the back of his trunk. The reporting party later said he thought he may have run one of them over and decided to drive to the police station, where officers planned to meet him and search the library area.