Selected reports from the Bainbridge Island Police Department blotter.

FRIDAY, JULY 5

9:39 a.m. The day before, a 41-year-old Bainbridge man drove around a traffic barrier at the intersection of Highway 305 and Winslow Way during the July Fourth parade, ignoring the orders of at least two police officers to stop and turn around.

Police had been positioned at the intersection throughout the morning, and though Winslow Way was closed to westbound traffic and a large “Road Closed” sign was standing there, police were allowing drivers to access their homes or places of employment if they could prove their intended destination and it wasn’t “past a certain location.”

Once the parade began, however, no vehicles at all were to be allowed through.

The island man approached in an SUV and told police he was going to his business, a restaurant that had been closed for at least a year. Told he could not drive through, as the parade had begun, the man began to argue with police, insisting he had to get to his business. The man insisted he was driving through.

Asked to get out of the vehicle, the man said, “No, you can meet me down at my business and talk to me there.” Then, he proceeded past the barrier.

Another officer slightly farther down the road again stopped the man and spoke to him and another argument began. The second officer ultimately decided the best course of action was not to confront the man farther at that time, as he had a child in the car.

A report was filed and forwarded to the prosecutor’s office for consideration of the charge of failing to stop or obey an officer.