COEUR d'ALENE — State Rep. Kathy Sims defied a traffic officer’s instructions on the Fourth of July, according to a Coeur d’Alene Police Department report.

The next day, when she was asked by the officer where he could deliver a ticket to her, Sims is quoted as saying, “I have a P.O. box in Cd’A. This is Representative Kathleen Sims!”

According to the report, the officer stopped Sims at Seventh Street and Lakeside Avenue around noon on July 4, presumably just after the annual Independence Day parade downtown. He told her the road was closed and that there were alternative routes for crossing Sherman Avenue, noting “the road and intersection in front of her was filled with pedestrians.” Sims, according to the report, told the officer she would wait for things to clear instead of turning her vehicle around.

“I started to walk away from her truck,” the officer says in the report. “As soon as I started to walk away, she drove southbound across Sherman Ave. The intersection was still filled with people that she had to drive around to avoid.”

Later, Sims told The Press she thought the officer had told her to wait until a light turned green.

Because the officer hadn’t been able to stop her on July 4, he ran the vehicle’s license plate number the next day, then called Sims, the police report says. During the July 5 phone call, Sims confirmed she remembered driving around the police barricades at the parade. But in a phone interview Wednesday with The Press, Sims said she didn’t recall being told to wait where she was.

“I don’t know what he’s talking about,” Sims said.

According to the report, the officer told Sims on the phone that she would be getting a ticket for ignoring traffic signs and defying his instructions by driving around the barricade, to which Sims responded, “I’m sure you will do what you have to do.”

Also according to the report, when asked by the officer where he could deliver a ticket to her, Sims said, “You obviously have my phone number so you must know.”

The exchange continued to go back and forth, with Sims declining to arrange a meeting, the report says. Sims, however, said Wednesday she doesn’t recall the officer asking to meet with her in person.

“After he called I gave him my address and that’s all I recall,” Sims said. “I asked him if he wanted to cite me and he didn’t say yes or no. He was quite unusual.”

When asked by The Press if there was an expectation that she would receive preferential treatment because of her status as an elected official, Sims replied, “Absolutely not.”

“I don’t even recall telling him my position,” she added. “I think when he called my home I identified myself because I told him what my post office box is and I only mentioned it when asked why I only have a post office box.”

That wasn’t the only discrepancy.

“It was quite some time after the Fourth that he called me,” Sims said Wednesday. “It was about 10 days after and I found that really strange.”

However, Coeur d’Alene Police Det. Jared Reneau confirmed Wednesday that the phone conversation was recorded July 5, and that the recording is in the department’s database.

Reneau also explained that citations for infractions like the one Sims is potentially facing can’t be sent through the mail; they must be issued in person.

Reneau said the incident report is in the city attorney’s office, where legal staff will determine whether a citation should be issued.

Sims, a three-term senator in the Idaho House, lost the Republican primary in May to Paul Amador.