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Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

Monday, April 13

8:16 a.m. A 45-year-old Bainbridge man was found in the bathroom at Waterfront Park. Police were called by the harbormaster after boaters complained that someone was camping out in the restroom.

The harbormaster said she had encountered the man on numerous previous occasions and wanted him removed.

Police contacted the man and told him he could not stay in the restroom.

9:04 a.m. A 56-year-old Bainbridge woman said a house guest became unwelcome when she brought and kept several cats into the homeowner’s house.

Police were called when the cat owner, also 56, discovered the homeowner dragging her mattress out of the house with the cats on it.

The homeowner said she had invited the woman to stay at her home temporarily after she met her at Fay Bainbridge Park the week before, where the woman had been living out of her truck.

She said the woman initially told her that her cats were outside cats, but upon arriving at the home they turned out to be inside cats and would stay inside when her new house guest kept them in her room.

After the argument, the guest packed up her belongings and left.

10:11 a.m. Police were called to the Safeway for two earlier shoplifting incidents.

A grocery store employee said the store’s surveillance camera showed a  man put six to eight bottles of liquor in a shopping cart and walked out the door without paying. The incident occurred about 6:42 p.m. April 12; the suspect was a man in is late 40s or 50s.

The liquor was valued at $800.

At about 5:45 p.m. April 12, a man in his late 30s loaded a blue cooler into a shopping cart, then filled the cooler with bottles of liquor. He then pushed the cart and cooler out of the store without stopping at a register.

Between 10 to 15 bottles of booze, with an estimated value of $1,500, was stolen.

Sunday, April 12

8:17 p.m. A 53-year-old Bainbridge man in a 2003 Toyota Highlander was driving on Highway 305 south past NE Koura Road when a deer waked into the roadway. The driver tried to avoid the deer without success.

Neither the driver or passenger were injured. The deer was found and dispatched.

Friday, April 10

6:08 a.m. A 64-year-old Bainbridge man on Meadowmeer Circle NE told police he got up at about 6 a.m. April 9 and got into his 2012 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck that he had left in his driveway the night before.

He put it into reverse and the truck wouldn’t move. He got out to see what the problem was and found his wheels and rims were missing and his truck had been left on jack stands.

The wheels and rims were valued at $1,500.

Police talked to the man’s neighbors but they didn’t hear anything. The jack stands appeared new, and police checked with stores in Kitsap County that sell jack stands and discovered that none had been recently sold.