Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23

2:54 p.m. A 27-year-old Bainbridge woman called police, fearing she was involved in a scam.

The woman, who had only recently moved to Bainbridge from California, had been searching for a job and was contacted by a man who said he owned a “Japanese dessert company” and claimed to have found her information on a job search website. The woman said she was interviewed by phone. The questions were not strange and perfectly reasonable for a job interview, she said.

The woman was told she was hired, and her first task was to make a list of all Chinese and Japanese bakeries in the area. She did, and then the man told her he would send her a check, as she would be purchasing things for the company.

She received a check for $2,431.09 from a Florida marina, which she deposited into her account. The woman then proceeded to do various things as instructed, including going to Walmart to buy gift cards, scrape the back and send photos or text the numbers to her new employer’s cell phone. He’d explained this was because the company “bought new iPads.”

The woman was then told to go back to Walmart and make a store-to-store transfer of $2,100 to a Walmart in Texas. She did, and the money was picked up.

Fearing she was involved in some kind of scam, the woman came to police to report the happenings in order to have them documented.

3:13 p.m. Bainbridge police were asked to conduct a traffic emphasis enforcement campaign in the Brackenwood neighborhood after reports of frequent, excessive speeding there.

It was difficult, one resident reported, to pull out on Brackenwood Lane and people walking and biking there were also in danger.