POLICE BLOTTER
August 27
Double Whammy. A vehicle was stopped for nonmoving traffic heading south on 305. A second vehicle steered left of center and then back to the right, colliding with the rear of the first. A witness driver had to veer right to avoid a head-on collision.
The driver of the car that was hit was recovering from a recent bicycle accident and was shaken up by the impact, complaining of head, neck, and back pain. A passenger also complained of back pain but declined EMS assistance.
Oxy Lost in Kitsap. A woman reported her prescription Oxycodone was missing from her purse after she visited Bainbridge. She also went antiquing in Poulsbo.
August 26
Flying Branches. A woman called to report that a truck had an unsecured load on 305 at Koura. At Koura a large branch with leaves fell out of the truck and lodged under her car, requiring her to pull over. After dislodging the branch she returned to the highway and saw leaves flying out from the truck bed. It turned on Noll Road in Poulsbo where she lost sight of it. She provided a plate that turned out to be one letter off from the plate of the landscaping service that was driving the truck.
Officer Mo Stich spoke with the driver and cautioned him about driving with an unsecured load. She then spoke wit the company owner and told him she would be forwarding a report to the prosecutor’s office.
August 25
Is the Keychain Really Small Too? A woman found a black Mini keychain on the side of the road between Ocean and Manitou Park on Manitou Beach Drive.
Burglary Attempt. A man came to the station to report an attempted burglary at his home on Pointview Drive. He estimated the date of the attempt at between June 25 at 4 p.m. and August 22 at 7 a.m. He had been out of town and upon his return had just noticed damage to his door. The suspects had not been able to gain entry.
Found Credit Card. A man brought a MasterCard to the station that he had found at Winslow Green last Saturday. Senior Police Clerk Barbara Seitz tried making contact with the owner but was unsuccessful. The card was placed in Found Property.
Hobbit Burglary Attempt. A man came to the station to report that sometime between August 22 at about 9 when he left his residence and 8:30 in the evening when he returned home someone had raised his garage door to about knee height. He said there was nothing missing and no one had been able to gain access to the residence.
Fraud Attempt. A woman came to the station to report that she had received a call from BECU to verify a money transfer. She informed the bank it was unauthorized. She learned the caller was a Nigerian male. When the bank asked him to verify her information, he was able to provide her Social Security number, her birthdate, and her mother’s maiden name. The suspect also knew her husband was her beneficiary. The suspect was attempting to transfer money from her home equity account to a personal account for his cousin.
Fix-a-Flat. At 7:26 in the morning, the Safeway manager called to report a possible fraud situation at their store. He said a woman was trying to return a can of Fix-a-Flat that had been purchased at the Safeway in Poulsbo. The receipt showed the name of a current employee at the Poulsbo Safeway. He called the Poulsbo store and found out that the customer had come into the store to get help repairing her flat tire. When she couldn’t come up with the money to pay for the product, the store employee had offered to buy it for her.
The woman went to Bainbridge then to try to return it. The manager asked the woman to stand by for police.
Officer Mo Stich arrived on scene. The woman said she did not mean to steal from anyone. She said she really did need the flat fixer. But she had gone to WalMart to buy the product for less money.
Stich ran her name and found out she had a warrant for theft out of the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office. Stich arrested her. She told Stich she had become thirsty after the incident and taken the refund money to buy a soda.
License Lost in Parking Lot. Officer Mike Tovar located a Washington State driver’s license in the city parking lot to the east of the BIPD building. He checked ILeads to find the owner but was unsuccessful. Officer Victor Cienega told Tovar he had spoken with the person earlier about her driver’s license, which had been lost. She said she would return on August 25 to see if anyone had located it.
August 24
Crabpot Sidles Away. A woman reported that she had dropped off three crabpots near Fay Bainbridge and Point Monroe at about 4 on August 24. After eating dinner in Poulsbo they returned but only two pots were left. They searched the area but could not find the third. She was worried that someone could leave her marked buoy in the water outside of legal trapping times.
Up the Railing and Onto the Balcony. Officers Scott Weiss and Mo Stich were dispatched to an apartment on the report of a domestic verbal. A mother and her daughter were yelling, and the caller also heard banging. When Weiss arrived, he could hear crying and yelling. The door was locked and no one would answer it. Weiss climbed up a railing and went over the balcony onto the deck where he found an open slider. He announced his presence and the occupants greeted him.
They let Stich in as well. The two women appeared upset and anxious. The daughter said they were fighting over her moving out and money. She graduated from high school and is not getting much family support.
She denied there had been anything physical. The thud happened when she sat down on the floor. The mother confirmed what the daughter said. They said they had been afraid to answer the door.
Mixed Messages. Officer Scott Weiss was dispatched to Hidden Cove for a burglary. He spoke with the resident who said he had had a party the previous evening. He went up to bed at about 2 in the morning. When he and his wife woke up, they found the rear door to the deck open and the deadbolt set. They looked around but didn’t notice than anything was missing.
August 23
Designated Tree Climber. At about 10:35 in the morning officers were dispatched to Lynwood Center for malicious mischief. The caller was the owner of the Suzanne Maurice Wine Bar. She said the night before one of her employees had called 911 to request a patrol check for a DUI driver who had damaged a tree. The occupants of the vehicle had climbed the tree and broken it off at the base.
She provided the license plate number of the vehicle. She said that a couple had had three glasses of wine each the night before but didn’t seemed drunk. They left in the vehicle, which police had been unable to locate.
The plate returned to a Poulsbo resident. Officer Ben Sias called the person who said his son had borrowed the car and was staying on Bainbridge. Sias called the son who said his friend had broken the tree but he would take responsibility for it.
Sias asked who his friend was. He let Sias speak to her. She admitted not only to breaking the tree but also to being the man’s wife. They both agreed to return to the bar to make arrangements to pay for the tree. She said her husband hadn’t had as much to drink as she had as he was the designated driver.
A Woman with No Shoes, No Purse, and No Address. A man called to report he had found a pair of shoes and a purse on Madison at Winslow. Officer Ben Sias collected the items from the man. Inside the purse was an ID giving a Bainbridge address. He went to the address and the homeowner said she was not aware of that person ever having lived there. Sias checked the DOL and found a different address on Bainbridge for the woman. It turned out she no longer lived there either. He found a previous address and checked there but she didn’t live there either. The phone number listed in ILeads was not the woman’s current number.
The purse also contained the woman’s passport. All items were placed into Property for safekeeping.
Bike v. Car. At 11:50 in the morning, a cyclist was heading north on Madison, gaining speed while going down the hill. He said he was traveling about 25 mph in the posted 40 mph zone. He was riding on the paved shoulder. A driver passed the cyclist at the top of the hill and activated his turn signal two driveways north of his own. At his driveway he turned right, in front of the cyclist, who ran into the back quarter of the vehicle. The cyclist fell off his bicycle. He had an obvious deformity or swelling to his ankle.
The driver said he felt the cyclist was at fault for passing him on the right. The driver had no insurance card.
August 22
Stolen Purse and Stolen Mail. Officer Trevor Ziemba met with a Kings Place resident about found property. A couple had found a black purse and open package in the bushes between the high school and Commodore while they were picking blackberries at about 6 the evening before.
The man provided Ziemba with the items. In the purse was a driver’s license and credit card. The package was from Amazon and contained a book. It was addressed to a nearby residence.
Ziemba called the purse owner who said her purse had been stolen from her car while it was parked at the Masonic Lodge.
He then tried to return the package to the recipient. He found several other Amazon packages on the doorstep. He left a message with a neighbor.
On the 23rd, Ziemba made contact with the man who said there were other items missing but that his house was locked and there were no signs of attempted entry.
Unlocked Bike Taken. A man reported that he left his bicycle unlocked in the Bike Barn at the ferry terminal. It was stolen between 10 p.m. on the 11th and 9 a.m. on the 12th.
Wallet Lost in Parking Lot. A woman contacted police to report she had found a wallet in the parking lot driveway of the ferry terminal. While en route to the police station after picking up the wallet, Officer Dale Johnson saw a person at the ferry terminal parking lot walking around as if looking for something.
Johnson drove up to him, and the man told him he was missing his wallet. Johnson showed him the wallet and asked him his name and date of birth. Johnson matched the picture on the license and information with the man.
August 21
Caught Chainsaw Handed? A woman called 911 to report tree cutting. She said she had just confronted a man whom she believed was cutting trees on her property. The cutting was happening on the bank above the house, a slide area where trees were not to be cut.
The man had a chainsaw and was felling trees in the direction of her house.
Officers Ben Sias and Trevor Ziemba responded to the scene. The woman told Sias that when she told the man to stop he told her he had been doing it for years and provided his name. She described him as about 38 to 42 and wearing an orange T-shirt. Her husband arrived and was certain the cut trees were on their property. Sias could see the freshly cut foliage. The woman said one of the trees had been 14 inches in diameter.
Ziemba contacted the tree cutter at his residence. He was sweating, covered in tree debris, and wearing an orange T-shirt.
Ziemba told the man who he was. The man asked why Ziemba was there. Ziemba told him and then asked him if he had been cutting trees. The man said, “I don’t think I should say anything.” He said something about talking to his attorney.
Ziemba asked him why he was being evasive and he said, “A police officer came to my house before and told me I shouldn’t say anything.”
Ziemba told him he would need his identification since he was conducting a possible criminal investigation. He also told him that the area where the tree cutting had been happening was a slide area and trees were not supposed to be cut there. Ziemba told him there had been several complaints regarding this issue.
Ziemba read him his Miranda Warnings since he had mentioned he wanted to talk to an attorney, even though he was not under arrest.
Ziemba told him that he believed he was the one who had cut the trees. He did not confirm or deny the allegation but said he was sweating because he had been doing yard work. He asked Ziemba to document that. Ziemba asked him to provide his attorney’s name. He said he would provide it later and requested a business card.
On August 22, Sias contacted Code Enforcement Officer Greg Vause. He said he would take over the investigation. The victim said if it was determined the trees were on her property she would be willing to be listed as a victim of malicious mischief.
August 20
Keyed on Bainbridge. At about 3 p.m. a woman got out of her car and went to the passenger side to get some grocery bags to take into the store. She noticed her car had been keyed on the passenger side. She had been parked in various places on Bainbridge running errands.
Exercise in Logic. Officer Trevor Ziemba met a woman at the police station who wanted to discuss and report a possible violation of a served and valid civil anti-harassment order.
She said that on August 18 Officer Mo Stich contacted her husband to discuss a complaint received from the woman against whom they had the order. The complaining woman said that “clanging noises” were coming from the couple’s residence and that the woman and her husband were conducting video and photo surveillance of her.
She said to Ziemba that she and her husband did not do those things and she believed that the woman’s report constituted a violation of the anti-harassment order.
She also told Ziemba that the problems that prompted the initial order continued to happen but would happen so quickly that they hadn’t contacted police to report them.
Ziemba explained that the woman’s behavior probably did not constitute a violation of the protection order in that her accusation that they had been monitoring her was false, meaning that it was not evidence that she had been monitoring them.
The woman told Ziemba that there had indeed been a clanging noise in the area but it was coming from a neighbor, not from her home.
Ziemba pointed out that, despite the anti-harassment order against her, the woman would still have the right to contact police regarding a noise complaint.
They talked about how the woman could use the police as a tool to harass the petitioners. They decided for that reason to document the incident.
Another Effect of Visconsi? At 6:39 in the evening. a vehicle was turning right from High School onto 305. The driver was distracted by protesters at the corner and he failed to notice that the vehicle in front of him was slowing during its turn. He collided with the vehicle. There were no injuries but the damage threshold was met.
Tight Parking. At about 4 in the evening, a man called 911 to report damage to his vehicle, which had been parked at the Pavilion. He said he had parked in the center row of angled parking, facing south. When he returned to his vehicle he noticed that the plastic piece covering the mirror was missing. The missing piece was nowhere to be found and the mirror had not been folded inward.
Found Backpack. A man found a black backpack in a parking lot on Winslow Way. He said it had been there for three days. He turned it over to police. It contained no identification. Police put it into Found Property for safekeeping.
August 19
Found Bike. An employee of Walt’s Market found a bicycle in the grove of trees behind the market on August 6. No one had come to claim it. The bicycle was placed into Property for safekeeping. Parking Enforcement Officer Ken Lundgren checked stolen bicycle reports but there was no match.
Missing Utility Trailer. A woman came home from work and noticed that a utility trailer was missing from a parking space at her apartment building. The property manager had advised residents about a string of vehicle prowls, so she decided to report it. She had also seen trucks driving “haphazardly” by and through the parking lot.
Homestead Vehicle Prowl 1. A man woke up and noticed that his hazard lights were blinking on his vehicle in the parking lot on Homestead Lane. The passenger side door was slightly ajar. The glove compartment and middle console were both open and had been rummaged through. The faceplate of the stereo had lost its plastic rim. Nothing appeared to be stolen.
Homestead Vehicle Prowl 2. At 6:45 in the morning a woman went to her vehicle parked on Homestead Lane and noticed that the passenger side door was open. She saw that items had been thrown around inside. Nothing appeared to be missing. She had left it unlocked.
Homestead Vehicle Prowl 3. Someone broke into a locked car and rummaged through the glove compartment. Police were able to get a print.
August 18
Possible Assault at Visconsi Protest? At about 6:30 in the evening, Officer Gary Koon was dispatched to High School Road for an assault that had just taken place near ProBuild. A man approached him upon his arrival to say he had video footage of the assault. He said a man had driven up to the protest site on the Visconsi property, parked his car between the gates, and walked into the woods. The man said the offender had tried to get a camera from one of the victims.
He showed Koon the video but Koon couldn’t tell from it if anyone had been assaulted.
Koon approached two of the people in the video. They asked him if they were being detained or if they were free to go. He told them they were not being detained, and they said they would not speak without their lawyer. He asked them if they were ok or needed medical attention. Again they asked if they were being detained. He said they were not, and they walked away. He told them to call 911 if they changed their minds and wanted to talk.
At about 7:10 he returned to the same area on a separate call and again contacted the two people. Again they said they wouldn’t speak to him without an attorney.
Meanwhile Officer Mike Tovar was trying to locate the address of the registered owner of the vehicle, but he was unsuccessful.
Just Checking. At 2:01 in the afternoon, Cencom dispatched Bainbridge units for a stolen check. Officer Carla Sias called the accounts manager of the company that had mailed a check. She told Sias that the check was for $36,000. She had sent it on Friday. On Monday she got a call from the manager of a bank in Bothell. A white male in his 50s had come into the bank to try to cash the check. When the teller asked for more identification, the male left.
Tukwila police had contacted her to let her know.
August 17
Found Cell. A couple from New Zealand found a cell phone at the park on Winslow Green.
August 15
Another Problem with the Affordable Care Act? Officer Trevor Ziemba spoke with a man who said that when he had tried to apply for health care under the Affordable Care Act, he learned that a man in custody at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Concord had used his Social Security number. The result was that the man had been unable to apply for health insurance.
He had run into road blocks when trying to contact the correctional institute, the police in Concord, and the Social Security Administration. He needed a police report from his local law enforcement agency in order to proceed.
Ziemba made a number of phone calls on the man’s behalf. He had some success with the FTC. He is waiting to hear back from a records specialist at the Correctional Facility.
August 11
Anti-Semitic Graffiti and New Ballfield Damage. At 8:07 in the morning, Officer Mo Stich went to Rotary Field on Weaver to investigate malicious mischief at the park. Two callers had reported damage and obscene and anti-Semitic graffiti. She spoke with two men who work for a contractor doing work there. One of them had found broken glass in the water tank of one of their trucks, a bottle on an excavator, a mat over some equipment, oily footsteps all over, and oil damage all over the windows and bodies of the equipment.
In addition survey stakes and plants had been pulled out.
The estimate for resurveying and replanting came to $1500. The cost of oil cleanup was estimated at $200.
A wtiness upset by the graffiti had already rubbed away the anti-Semitic graffiti before police arrived.
CRIME LOG
FOUND PROPERTY FOUND PROPERTY 8/17/2014
MOTOR VEHICLE C TRAFFIC ACCIDENT 8/17/2014 SPORTSMAN CLUB RD NE / STATE HWY 305 NE
SUICIDAL SUBJ W SUICIDE (ATTEMPT OR THREAT) 8/17/2014
FOUND PROPERTY 8/17/2014
UNWANTED SUBJEC CRIMINAL TRESPASS 2 8/18/2014
WARRANT ARREST BY OUTSIDE AGENCY 8/18/2014
MISCELLANEOUS I 8/12/2014
UNWANTED SUBJEC CRIMINAL TRESPASS 2 8/18/2014
TRAFFIC HAZARD PATROL CHECK 8/18/2014
SUICIDE THREATS SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT/INVESTIGATION 8/18/2014
FRAUD THEFT 3 8/15/2014
ASSAULT 4 – 8/18/2014 1
THEFT VEHICLE PROWLING 2 8/18/2014 HOMESTEAD LN
HARASSMENT HARASSMENT 8/19/2014
SUICIDAL SUBJ W SUICIDE (ATTEMPT OR THREAT) 8/19/2014
THEFT VEHICLE PROWLING 2 8/6/2014 HOMESTEAD LN,
FOUND PROPERTY 8/19/2014
SUSPICIOUS (ACT FOUND PROPERTY 8/17/2014
TELEPHONE HARASSMENT 7/21/2014
FIELD INTERVIEW WARRANT – MISDEMEANOR 8/20/2014
PROTECTION ORDE VIOLATION OF CIVIL ANTIHARASSMENT ORDER 8/18/2014
THEFT MALICIOUS MISCHIEF 3 8/20/2014
MOTOR VEHICLE C TRAFFIC ACCIDENT 8/20/2014 HIGH SCHOOL RD NE / STATE HWY 305 NE
TRAFFIC STOP DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE/LIQUOR OR DRUGS 8/21/2014 NE HIDDEN COVE RD / STATE HWY 305 NE
SUSPICIOUS (ACT SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT/INVESTIGATION 8/21/2014
THREATS MENTAL INVESTIGATION 8/21/2014
FOUND PROPERTY 8/22/2014
MISCELLANEOUS R OUTSIDE AGENCY REFERRAL(CPS ETC) 7/31/2014 1
FOUND PROPERTY VEHICLE PROWLING 2 8/21/2014 GROW AVE
FRAUD FORGERY 8/22/2014
ALS – LINKED / AGENCY ASSIST 8/22/2014
FIELD INTERVIEW THEFT – OF MAIL FELONY 8/21/2014
FOUND PROPERTY 8/22/2014
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF 3 8/22/2014
MOTOR VEHICLE C TRAFFIC ACCIDENT 8/23/2014 13540 NORTH MADISON AVE NE
MISCELLANEOUS I RAPE OF CHILD 1 1/1/2009
MOTOR VEHICLE C TRAFFIC ACCIDENT 8/23/2014 MADISON AVE N / STATE HWY 305 NE
VANDALISM OF A MALICIOUS MISCHIEF 3 8/18/2014
THEFT THEFT 3 8/19/2014 HOMESTEAD LANE
THEFT THEFT 3 8/11/2014 Eagle ha NE HWY 305 ST NE
