Deputies stage near Hoback home after third-hand report of armed, drinking man; call resolved without incident

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• Multi-unit response to report of armed man at Hoback residence. At 15:26 dispatch (TG 1801) sent units toward a residence on South US-89 in Hoback for suspicious circumstances: a third-party caller, working through a translator, relayed that women leaving the home said a male inside had a firearm and had been drinking. At least six units responded or staged north of the address; the subject reportedly had a significant officer-hazard history, including a no-contact release condition involving one responding unit (2237). By 16:14 units cleared and the call was resolved with notes added — no confrontation reported on air.
• Injury-reported crash at the Y stood down with no patients. At 08:27 dispatch paged fire and medical for a collision with injury at West Broadway and Highway 22; a START bus driver had reported it at 08:24. It was a two-vehicle crash — a passenger car vs. a High Country Linen box truck — with northbound lane blockage. Engine 12's page was canceled at 08:33, all involved were declared no-patient at 08:35, and a black Honda with severe front-end damage was towed. Scene cleared by about 08:39.
• Snow King Avenue collision leads to apparent DUI arrest. At 17:17 units were sent to a collision first given as East Snow King/North Millward, corrected on air to West Snow King at South Millward, with the RP reporting the other driver appeared "out of it." At 17:44 a unit logged a PBT of .11 [suspect — read as "1-1-2"] with one in custody; a blood draw at the hospital followed at 17:59 and transport to the detention center at 18:31.
• Possibly impaired or confused driver tracked across Teton Pass, followed home by Idaho officers. Starting 21:45, two callers reported a red SUV westbound on Highway 22 from Pratt Road going ~25 mph, swerving and nearly stopping at the 390 light. Jackson units and WHP were advised and Teton County, Idaho was notified. At 22:42 Driggs officers stopped the vehicle (a red Subaru per radio) near Victor; the driver reportedly has possible dementia, and an officer met the car at the state line to follow her home.
• Commercial fire alarm at Jackson Lake Lodge. At 02:43 Station 4 was paged for multiple water-flow alarms at Jackson Lake Lodge (TG 1807). A firefighter on scene at 02:52 reported no smoke showing, with the panel pointing to the boiler room [suspect — transcribed "border room"]; after a deeper check of the large building, resources were stood down by about 03:14.
• Gas-leak report in the Gill Addition comes up empty. At 18:58 Battalion 3 and Engine 11 responded to Gill Avenue between Moose Street and Gros Ventre Street for a gas smell near a house under construction; the caller reported feeling ill but declined medical. Crews found no odor and nothing on the gas monitor, clearing at 19:21.

Also on the air

A quieter texture underneath: an overnight traffic stop at Highway 22 and Pratt ended with a female taken for a blood draw (02:43) and booked at the jail (03:12); a morning prisoner transport ran to Swan Valley and back (09:49–12:00). A blue Subaru hit a deer with airbag deployment near Airport Junction at 10:21 (first given as Gros Ventre Junction, corrected on air; no injuries reported, park ranger on scene). Teton County SAR's Air Rescue 22 flew a lift job at JHMR/Teton Village late morning and practiced at Bryan Flats mid-afternoon. Medical calls included a fall by a 78-year-old on Cass Street (14:25, patient refusal) and a bleeding 63-year-old on Rancher Street (21:25, no patient); a dog bite was reported at urgent care (15:09). WYDOT crews reported icy conditions in Hoback Canyon early (07:14), sanded and improved by 08:06. Traffic hazards included a box of staples on South US-89 near Maverik, a hay truck losing its load near the Hoback Junction roundabout, and a stopped semi jamming Highway 22 (~17:36). START and school-bus channels carried timing checks, a bus with engine/regen warnings that stayed in service, evacuation drills, construction detours around Jean/Gros Ventre streets (reopened by evening), and a lost black bag. Plus the usual run of plate and records checks, parking complaints, civil standbys, a theft report and a destruction-of-property claim at the PD, a computer-hack fraud report, and two late residential alarm checks that turned up secure buildings.

By the numbers

• 2,020 transmissions across 634 exchanges.
• Busiest talkgroup: TG 1801 Teton County law dispatch, 1,061 transmissions (~53% of all traffic).
• Busiest hour: 08:00–09:00 with 221 transmissions (the Y crash); afternoon peak 15:00–16:00 with 186 (the Hoback call).
• Categories: status 281, unclassified 199, plate-check 35, records-check 27, medical 24, transit 15, traffic-complaint 15, crash 14, fire 10, animal 7, traffic-stop 3, and one each of 911-open-line, suspicious, welfare, alarm.
• 282 short status-only exchanges omitted from the detailed log.

Caveats

• Not all of this is Teton County. TG 13751 is Fremont County EMS paging (Lander/Riverton/Dubois — including a PI accident at MP 60 on US-26 at 19:11); TG 109 carries statewide WHP broadcasts (mostly I-80 complaints near Rock Springs/Evanston); TG 6586 appears to be WYDOT TMC road-condition traffic from across southwest Wyoming; parts of TG 6403 are Game & Fish units out of Pinedale/Big Piney.
• Transcription quality is rough. Unit numbers, road names and the .11 PBT reading are machine-transcribed and may be wrong; 199 exchanges couldn't be classified. "Prickly Pear Lane" (alarm, 22:43) and the 16:46 non-injury crash location on South US-89 are best-guess readings.
• Possible coverage gap: the 01:00 hour shows zero transmissions, more likely a receiver gap than genuine radio silence.