Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12

11:41 p.m. Police were called to an island apartment complex after two women were arguing loudly.

One woman was known to police, and had in fact been contacted about another matter just several hours previously.

The woman told police that everyone in the complex was out to get her and nobody likes her. That night, she said, she’d taken out the garbage and had a confrontation with another woman, who she claimed was a drug addict who’d run up a “$5,000 water bill for the complex.”

She said the other woman sprayed her with water from a hose, though her clothes were dry. Upon having that pointed out, the woman told police she’d already changed clothes. Given their rapid response, police said they found that statement unlikely.

The woman told police she’d already spoken to TV news reporters and other media about her treatment in the complex. Police advised she “be the bigger person” and ignore the other tenants.

The other woman denied having sprayed her neighbor with a hose. There was, in fact, no hose in sight and neither woman was wet. The neighbor said she’d seen the other woman taking out the trash and then was approached, in a friendly way at first, before the other woman started yelling at her and accusing her of being a drug addict. She kept getting closer, yelling louder, and challenging her neighbor to hit her.

When other neighbors came outside and said they’d called the police, the woman who’d been taking out her garbage went back inside.