January 28
Classic Bike Rides Away. An employee of Streamliner Diner reported to police that his bicycle was stolen while he was at work. He said he had been riding it to work for four months and never before had a problem with it. He kept it in the back, behind the restaurant.
He said it was a blue classic Schwinn cruiser style cycle with a light attachment on the handlebar and a bike lock on the seat. He said he never locked his bike at the restaurant.
He said he had spoken to someone who told him a male in his 50s or 60s that hangs out at T&C and is often intoxicated might have taken it. The bicycle was valued at about $250. Officer Erik Peffer patrolled the area, looking for the bike.
January 27
Scary Neighbors. A woman reported that she has been having trouble with her downstairs neighbors. The two women living there complain to her about the noise coming from her residence. She said they are both rude to her and even yell at her. She said someone had thrown rocks at her windows from the courtyard below. She said she had not reported any of these incidents.
This time someone had broken off the light fixture outside her unit. It was lying in the hallway in pieces. She had not seen the women damage her fixture, but she said it couldn’t have been anyone else.
The building she lives in requires key code access to the floors, so the damage would have to have been caused by a resident.
Officer Victor Cienega tried to speak with the women downstairs, but they didn’t answer the door. He called them by phone but couldn’t reach them.
The woman appeared concerned for her safety and asked Cienega to escort her to the garage. He told her to call 911 if the women confronted her again.
Damage to the fixtures was estimated at $100.
More Neighbor Troubles. At 3:40 Officer Walt Berg was parked in a lot on High School waiting to speak to someone on the phone. He was approached by a woman he recognized from prior contacts. She said she wanted to repot a violation of a protection order she has against another resident of her apartment building.
She said an hour earlier she had been in the laundry room. The woman named in the protection order had seen her carrying her laundry. But a short time later she saw the woman pass by the laundry room and then a few minutes after that walk past it again, this time waving her mail.
She said this had been a violation of the protection order as the other woman had been instructed not to walk by her. She said the order even prevents the woman from gardening in the community garden. She said that the woman had no need to walk by the laundry room as the mailboxes are accessed by a different route.
Berg told her he would look at the protection order when he returned to the station.
At the station he spoke with Officer Victor Cienega who told him that he had spoken with the other woman by phone earlier. She had said that the woman in the laundry room had begun yelling at her when she walked by.
Berg learned that order said that the woman is allowed in common areas of the apartment complex but may not linger in those areas. Berg forwarded the report to the prosecutor.
January 26
Unfamiliar with Stop Signs. At 8:14 in the evening a driver unfamiliar with the area ran the stop sign at Wyatt and Grow and hit a vehicle that had just entered the intersection.
Stealing a Senior Identity. A man came to the station to report fraud. He told Officer Mike Tovar that he believed someone had stolen his identity. In June of 2013 he had been working at a federal park in Colorado. He said he had lost his AARP card at the park. In October he had received a call from a Check Security Company, trying to contact him about bad checks. He believed the thief had taken out some loans using his identity. He said that he had obtained a credit report and found some loans on the report that he didn’t recognize.
Tovar provide him with an identity theft packet. He asked him to fill out the form and return it to the police.
Wrong Tab, Suspended License. At 10 a.m., Officer Mo Stich was heading south on 305 just south of Madison when she noticed the vehicle in front of her had a hard-to-read plate. She ran it, and the tab showed an expiration of June 2014 but the vehicle returned with an expiration of June 2013.
She stopped the vehicle. The driver was not the registered owner. He said it was his girlfriend’s car and he had just driven her to work. She asked him for his license, and he said he didn’t have it.
She ran his name through Cencom and it returned with a suspended license for unpaid tickets. Cencom ran the tab and it returned to a different vehicle belonging to the same owner.
Stich removed the tab from the plate. She cited the driver for driving with a suspended license. She instructed him not to drive. She saw him exit the vehicle and lock it up and walk toward High School.
January 25
New Ferry Pickup Lane at McDonald’s. At about 6:15 in the evening, Officer Mike Tovar observed a driver at Ferncliff and Winslow Way. He followed her and noted she was going 20 in a 25 mph zone on Ferncliff. She started signaling a left turn onto High School about 1,000 feet before the intersection. She turned left and continued at about 20 mph. She turned into the parking lot at Ace and McDonald’s. He ran her plate and it belonged to a driver with a suspended license.
The woman parked and Tovar asked her if she was the registered owner of the vehicle. She said yes. He asked her if she knew her license was suspended. She said no.
She said she was waiting for her son coming over on the ferry. Tovar issued her a criminal citation and told her she couldn’t drive. The woman said her son would walk to McDonald’s to meet her.
Mysteriously Open Door. At about 2 a.m., Officer Carla Sias was driving through the high school on a patrol check. She noticed a door to the gym was standing wide open. It was propped open. Officer Dale Johnson arrived on scene and the two began to check the inside of the school. Sias noticed a cash register. It showed pry damage, but she couldn’t tell if the damage was recent.
They were called to another incident and left. Sias returned at 3:30 and found one of the double doors to the band room unlocked. It appeared it hadn’t been properly latched.
Can You Turn Left on Moran from Madison? A driver came to the station to report an accident that had happened at 11:30 at night. He said he had been northbound on 305 at Madison and turned right onto Madison. A vehicle westbound on Madison was turning left onto Moran. The front corner of the man’s vehicle struck the front passenger corner of the other vehicle. The driver of the other vehicle said he hadn’t seen his turn signal, the view of which might have been blocked by the guardrail.
January 24
Complicated Agatewood Car Ballet Ends Badly. At 4 in the afternoon, a vehicle was southbound on 305 just north of Agatewood. A second vehicle on Agatewood at the stop sign was waiting to turn left onto 305. A third vehicle was in the left turn lane of 305, waiting to turn onto Agatewood. The driver of the first vehicle said the driver of the second vehicle pulled out from Agatewood and in behind the third vehicle waiting to turn onto Agatewood and then proceeded, left onto 305 right in front of the third vehicle. That driver tried to avoid hitting the second vehicle by swerving off the roadway, but he struck the vehicle before going off the road and heading down an embankment. The driver of the second vehicle stopped and provided an insurance card and then left to catch the ferry. The driver who went off the road was uninjured and called a family member for a ride.
On the 27th, Officer Walt Berg made contact with the second driver. She told him that ferry traffic was heading north on 305 and the third vehicle was waiting to make a left turn onto Agatewood. She said the vehicle had several opportunities to make the turn but didn’t take them. She said that after about 5 minutes she decided to go around the stopped vehicle and turn left onto 305. She said she didn’t see the other vehicle approaching, or it was going faster than she thought, and that the driver tried to swerve to avoid her but hit the right rear of her vehicle.
Cited for Just Not Caring Enough to Stop? At 5:25 in the afternoon, a vehicle was stopped in traffic northbound on 305. The traffic was backed up from the intersection at Day Road. Another vehicle, also northbound, struck the rear of the first. The driver of the second vehicle said he was not distracted by anything but simply did not stop prior to striking the other vehicle. No one was injured. Both vehicles could be driven from the scene. The second driver was cited for inattention.
January 23
Mysterious Candy Left by Suspicious Man Is Just a Kind Gesture. Officer Victor Cienega met with a woman at the station who wanted to report a suspicious incident. She told him that at about 8 p.m. on the 18th a male had entered the Beach House Restaurant and ordered takeout food and a shot of whiskey. She said he was acting weird and did not talk to anyone. He paid for his order in cash and left a Bacio chocolate candy with his payment.
The wrapper of the candy looked like it had been rewrapped. She opened it and looked at it. There was a small hole in the chocolate that she thought might be from an injection. She wrapped it back up and took it to the station.
She said the man, whom no one had seen before, was about 6 foot 3, had short brown hair, and was unshaven. She said he was wearing an army-green jacket.
Cienega inspected the candy and cut it in half. The hole had not protruded through the chocolate layer and appeared to be simply a flaw.
January 22
Corruption by a Minor. At about 11:34 in the morning, Cencom advised of a bicycle collision involving three dogs on Mandus Olson Road near Coyote Farm Lane. The reporting party said the dogs had thrown him off his bicycle. He told Cencom he was going to get a gun and shoot them.
Officer Walt Berg arrived on scene at about 11:40. He contacted the cyclist who was on the shoulder of the road. The cyclist said he had been riding on Mandus Olson when three black dogs came out of the woods on the west. Two dogs ran for the bicycle and under it, which caused him to hit the younger dog. He said he then went into the ditch and avoided wiping out. The dogs ran away, two of them back down the wooded path and one down the driveway. He said he had seen the dogs chasing cars, including his own, in the past. He said this was the second time in a month that this had happened.
Officer Victor Cienega arrived on scene. Just then a vehicle approached down the driveway. Berg asked the driver if he owned two black dogs, and he said he did. The cyclist overheard and threatened to shoot the dogs. Berg told him to stop and cross the street to Berg’s car.
The driver said he was on his way to pick up his kid from school and would return in a few minutes.
Berg returned to the cyclist who apologized. Berg told him he needed to let the police handle the matter. Berg told him he would be contacting Kitsap Animal Control. The cyclist departed.
The dog owner returned home. He explained to Berg that the older dog is 9 and they had just adopted the younger one from a dog training facility. He said the dog had had some behavioral issues before they adopted it. He said the older dog had never been in trouble before and was probably just being influenced by the younger one.
Berg told him he would be forwarding a report to Kitsap Animal Control and that he needed to keep his dogs under control at all times. He said he understood. He told Berg that the third dog belonged to a neighbor.
Berg drove to that neighbor’s home and spoke with a woman there who identified herself as the dog owner’s mother in law. She said they knew that her son in law’s dog, an 8-year-old lab mix, has a history of getting loose and chasing cars. She said the dog had even been hit by a car. Berg told her to inform her son in law about the incident and the fact that a report was being forwarded to Kitsap Animal Control.
January 21
Kono Lane Mail Theft. A mail theft victim reported to Officer Erik Peffer that he had been out of town and was expecting a delivery. He checked the tracking information and discovered that two items had been delivered on January 13 after 2:37. He said the packages had been left in his mailbox on Kono Lane but they were gone.
EHHS Student’s Backpack Searched, Marijuana Found. EHHS Principal David Shockley requested contact from police about a student in possession of marijuana. Officer Walt Berg arrived around 2:06 and contacted the principal. He showed Berg two baggies, one containing a smoking pipe and one containing a silver hinged case and green leafy vegetable matter that appeared to be marijuana.
The bowl of the pipe had residue in it that smelled like burnt marijuana. The silver case contained three cigarettes.
Shockley said the items had been obtained from a student who had been hanging around the BHS campus and had had a seizure. BHS officials had found the marijuana and pipe. The student was sent home and the items had been given to him.
Berg went to BHS and contacted Associate Principal Tina Lemmon. She said the EHHS student had had a seizure and BHS staff—herself, security officer Mike Krysinski, and school nurse Heidi McKay—had responded. She said, as they attended to him, she could smell marijuana. They took the student to the nurse’s office. She was familiar with his history of seizures and that some might have been the result of marijuana use. She searched his backpack and found the items. She gave them to Krysinski and told him to take them to Shockley.
Krysinski confirmed what Lemmon said.
When the student’s parents arrived, the father told Lemmon not to search his son’s backpack, but Lemmon already had.
Berg then spoke with McKay. She said she had told Lemmon to check the student’s backpack because she knew that some of his prior seizures had occurred after marijuana use.
Berg went to the family’s home where he was told the student was asleep. The parents said they were very disappointed by their son’s relapse into marijuana use. Berg said he could not speak to them about details because the son was an adult. He told them he would be forwarding the incident to the Prosecutor and that the son could talk to him if he wanted to.
Protection Order Violation Does Not Occur at UPS Store. At 10:36 a.m. Bainbridge units were dispatched to the UPS Store regarding a possible protection order violation. Officer Victor Cienega arrived on scene and met with a man who was sitting in his vehicle parked in front of the store. He was sitting in the back seat with his infant child. Cienega asked him what had happened. He said that his wife and a woman were in the store. He said there was an anti-harassment order against him by the woman.
He said he and his wife had pulled into the parking lot and his wife had entered the store. Within minutes the woman named in the order also pulled into the lot. She exited her vehicle and approached his. She looked inside, saw him, smiled, and then went into the UPS store. He went in too to tell his wife they needed to leave. He said he exited the store immediately without saying a word to the woman.
Cienega spoke with the wife who was very upset. He explained that the order prevented her husband from contacting the woman, but that there was nothing in place to prevent the woman from showing up where they were. The wife said she though that was unfair.
Cienega spoke with the woman who said she had an anti-harassment order against the couple. Cienega corrected her that the order was not with the wife. The woman said she was going to the court to add the wife to the order.
Cienega informed all of them that he did not believe a violation had occurred. He said he would write the report for informational purposes.
January 17
Ferry Rush Accident Ends Peacefully. A couple came to the station to report a motor vehicle accident that had occurred on January 14 at Olympic Drive and Harborview Drive. The man said he had not reported it then because he had needed to get to an appointment in Seattle.
He said that a blue-green Saturn had just missed hitting their vehicle as it turned right onto Harborview. The vehicle then attempted to reenter Olympic Drive in front of them. The vehicle had to squeeze between the power pole and their vehicle. The Saturn hit their front right fender. He showed Lieutenant Chris Jensen the damage.
He said his wife had been a passenger at the time. He said they had not been injured and damage was estimated to be about $500.
He said that after the incident, he had paid for his passage onto the ferry and had waited in the holding lane behind the Saturn. He said that after about 10 minutes, the Saturn drove away. He said neither of them had made any attempt to contact the other.
He told Jensen he was hoping to locate the other driver and get his vehicle repaired.
Jensen tried to contact the other driver with no success until January 23. Then the other driver told Jensen her vehicle had very little damage. He asked her to tell him what had happened. She said she had been approaching the toll booth area and had started to merge left. The vehicle to her left kept going straight and wouldn’t giver her room to merge. They collided, and she kept driving. She said she paid and entered the holding area and realized that catching the next ferry would make her late. So she decided to drive around.
She said she hadn’t even thought of the incident as being a collision. Jensen told her that the other driver hoped they could exchange information and decide how to resolve the issue. She said she would be fine with that.
On January 27, Jensen received confirmation that the two parties had spoken.