Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.
MONDAY, JUNE 3
9:22 p.m. A 64-year-old Bremerton woman called police to Fay Bainbridge Park after an alleged incident of domestic violence and child abuse.
The woman told police her granddaughter-in-law, 19, was attacked by her son, 44, who is the girl’s stepfather. The teenager said she’d been sitting on a bench minding her own business when the 44-year-old man, who both women agreed had been drinking, came over and pulled her off it. She said he pulled her to the ground three times though she told him to stop, and showed police a scratch on her right wrist about 5 centimeters long, which she said she sustained during the man’s attack.
The man told police he pulled the teen off the bench, that they’d been playing around, roughhousing, and that she had also pushed him to the ground.
Police spoke to the teen again, and she agreed it had been roughhousing that got out of hand. Both of them agreed they had not meant any harm.
The Bremerton woman told police she’d only called 911 because she does not like or get along with her son.
All three of them agreed it was “best to end the festivities and give each other space,” police said. Both the man and teenager left the park, though the older woman stayed behind.